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A new exhibition based on the work of Oriol Maspons looks at whether art can be ‘useful’ to society

May 18 is The Night of the Museums, with free entry and special activities in 84 venues in and around Barcelona

Nagasaki is the first of five Japanese cities to host 'Barcelona. The city of artistic miracles,' an exhibition organized by the MNAC national gallery

The award-winning art piece will be on display in the Barcelona gallery for the first time in 25 years

Some 21 works by 15th century painter go on display at MNAC in collaboration with Madrid's Prado gallery

Three Picassos will be included in the collection of the National Art Museum of Catalonia which will also grow two rooms and debut a new exhibit

A new Barcelona display by sculptor and painter Pere Llobera explores the question of “art created outside official history”

Ildefonso Salillas denies that the art was brought from Catalonia to Aragon as a result of the former’s self-rule being seized through Article 155

The relocation of murals in the MNAC museum back to Aragon temporarily blocked by a Huesca judge due to their “fragility”

The national gallery’s collection includes pieces from the Renaissance and Baroque periods

Meanwhile, the Miró Foundation, the CCCB and MACBA received fewer museum-goers than the year before

Catalan institutions and museums demand the pieces to be returned to Barcelona and Lleida

Picasso’s attraction to Romanesque art is to be definitively unveiled in an exhibition dedicated to him at the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC). The display will open its doors next Thursday and is co-organised with the Musée National Picasso-Paris. The exhibition includes forty works by the artist lent by the French museum, which are being added to the collection of Romanesque art from the MNAC. According to one of the exhibition’s curators, Emilia Philippot, the display demonstrates the “echoes of simplicity and primitivism” of Romanesque art in certain Picasso creations. Picasso, like other artists of his time, was attracted by the Romanesque, identified with the “childhood of art”. His interest is proved in the exhibition with various unpublished documents, such as correspondence and books belonging to the artist.

Barcelona turns into a moving image hotspot again for over three weeks with the 14^th edition of LOOP, a festival dedicated to video art. Since 2003, it has provided a platform for both emerging and well-known international video artists to get together, with curated exhibitions taking place around the Catalan capital. Not only is it an event exhibiting high-quality video art, but also hosts workshops and other art events related to the moving image; as is the case again this year, with LOOP featuring over 400 artworks, 58 exhibition projects and 28 activities carried out through a budget of 77,000 euros. In this year's Festival, which is titled 'Faraway, so close', the main themes are 'Beyond the Black Box' and 'Back to the Black Box', exploring the connection between cinema and video art.

The National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) reviewed what its 2016 exhibitions would consist of, although the showings unofficially begun in December of 2015. The star exhibition of the season will be ´Picasso and Romanesque Art´, a joint venture with the Picasso Museum in Paris. Besides this, other exhibition centred onLuis “el Divino” Morales, Renaissance painting, 20^th century photography and features on several Catalan artists, such as Lluïsa Vidal and Ismael Smith, will complete the MNAC’s agenda for 2016. The MNAC’s director, Pepe Serra, celebrated that the museum is finally “starting to have a normal planning rhythm for a museum of its size” which will allow the MNAC’s calendar to synchronise with “other international museums”.