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The directory includes around 1000 of the artist's pictoral works, after 17 years of research

German art historian Marko Daniel will take up the position following Rosa Maria Malet, who ran the organization for 37 years

With Catalonia under direct rule it falls to Spanish culture minister to decide whether to return 44 art treasures taken from Sigena monastery

The exhibition is an examination of a possible dystopian Earth through the eyes of a Catalan artist

Located in the Nau Gaudí space in the seaside town of Mataró, the exhibit starts a dialogue about humans and architecture

The route aims to promote modernist art, and also includes international cities like Glasgow, Riga and Turin

23 workshops offered inspiration to the Sunday crowds in the international drawing festival

The collection features artists like Dalí, Miró, Picasso, Tàpies, Brossa and Duchamp

The first Street Art Festival sees 12 national and international artists decorating the small Catalan town of Torrefarrera

The Japanese artist’s installation kicks off SónarPLANTA and offers “an unprecedented spatial experience”

The Barcelona street art scene has been active for 30 years. Thanks to its diversity Barcelona street art distinguishes itself from other cities around the world. During recent years street art has become more popular, which has resulted in more art on the streets, a commercial focus and more legal walls around town. According to the street artist Debens, it was hard for artists in the 90s to find places to make street art because of strict conditions. But such authority also had a positive impact on the street artists in the beginning since it produced a “rebel spirit that is very important for them to create”, Debens states. 

The 15th edition of the Barcelona LOOP festival opens its doors from May 18–27, presenting a retro-perspective of international video art production. The festival will show the works of video artists from the 60s, 70s, and 80s in different formats at more than 80 venues around Barcelona. According to Carolina Ciuti, the LOOP festival coordinator, the aim of this year’s edition is to “build bridges between the past and the present” in order to understand modern audiovisual art. The festival’s program was elaborated under the supervision of the renowned Catalan historians of audiovisual art and new media in Spain, Eugeni Bonet and Antoni Mercader. An Andy-Warhol-exhibition as well as a six-hour video marathon of the works of Paul McCarthy are among the festival’s highlights.

The painting, which comes on the market for the first time, will lead Bonhams’ Impressionist and Modern Art sale on Thursday 2 March, and has a guide estimate of €942,000-€1,413,000. The work is a portrait of Dali’s sister, Anna Maria, painted in 1925 and which was only exhibited once, that same year, in the Barcelona Sala Dalmau. The painting was then given to Anna Maria by the artist before their relationship deteriorated. The Director of the Dali Museums, Montse Aguer, explained to the CNA that they had no information on this piece of art, which was considered lost until now. The auction will allow the Dali Museum to get more information on the portrait and complete the details that they had about it in the Museums catalogue. However, Aguer did not specify whether the Museums will participate in the auction in order to bring the painting to Catalonia.

Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Alexander Calder and Julio González are the protagonists of ‘Art revolutionaries’, a major exhibition which opened in London this Wednesday and will reproduce the Pavilion of the Spanish Republic from the 1937 Paris International Exposition. Catalan gallery Mayoral is the name responsible for the initiative, which aims to pay tribute “to those artists which were committed to democracy and freedom in the middle of Spanish Civil War”, Mayoral’s director, Jordi Mayoral, told the CNA. The Republican Pavilion displayed works by these artists and became a strategic platform to vindicate the tragic situation the country was going through. The exhibition includes archival documents to contextualise the artworks and “immerse the visitor in the Republican atmosphere”, added Mayoral.

Barcelona’s Picasso Museum will add 1,150 m² for exhibitions this 2017. This new area will be located on the second floor of the ‘Palau de les Finestres’, one of the five buildings composing the museum, which has been undergoing refurbishment. The Picasso Museum currently occupies five large town houses on Montcada street, in Barcelona’s old town, dating from between the 13^th and the 15^th century. During the presentation of the museum’s programme for this year, the Picasso Museum’s new director, Emmanuel Guigon, also announced that this year’s major exhibition will be ‘Picasso Portraits’, co-produced with London’s National Portrait Gallery, which will be displayed from March until June. There will also be three smaller exhibitions this 2017, some of them to be hosted in the restored area at the ‘Palau de les Finestres’.