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Barcelona art museum CaixaForum exhibits a selection of the ´little treasures´ from Madrid's Prado
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The Girona Film Festival will showcase 175 films from 35 different countries from around the world
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Antoni Pitxot warns that the Dalí Theatre-Museum cannot be “split” in the event of Catalan independence
The director of the Dalí Theatre-Museum, Antoni Pitxot, stated on Monday that he does not contemplate changing the functioning of the museum in the event of Catalan independence. "I think there will be no conflict because the museum was created by Dali and an intelligent leader would never put any obstacles to the continuation of his great work" said Pitxot, who was a close friend of the artist until his death in 1989. Pitxot also stressed that the museum and its collection is "not divisible". In his last will, Salvador Dalí named Spain as the universal heir to his property, and the state negotiated with the Catalan government to leave 134 works of art in Figueres and bequeath 56 to Madrid.
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Catalan museums received 21.5 million visitors in 2013
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Manresa's Cathedral to unveil unique Florentine altar frontal from mid-14th century
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Barcelona welcomes Le Corbusier’s architectural ‘landscapes’ with an exhibition
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Record 1,580,517 visitors in the Dalí museums in 2013
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Different management and new exhibitions at Barcelona’s Picasso Museum
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Never-seen-before panoramic views over Barcelona
The National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) has opened two terraces to its visitors who will enjoy never-seen-before panoramic views over Barcelona city and Montjuïc Mountain. This intervention was part of the investment policy of the museum to increase its revenues. Visitors will pay an entrance fee to access the roof of the ‘Palau Nacional’ while the new available space will also be rented out for concerts and other events. Director of the MNAC Pep Serra explained this initiative would help diversify the uses of the museum and give people a new “reason” to go up to Montjuïc for a visit.
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A new museum shows Barcelona in 1700 and explains the military and political defeat of 1714
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A route in southern Catalonia explores the sites that influenced Gaudí, Miró, Picasso and Pau Casals
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Barcelona's Miró Foundation to hold an exhibition focusing on the horizon as a recurring theme in modern art
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The European Union's Mies van der Rohe Architecture Award celebrates its 25th anniversary in Barcelona
The Catalan capital hosts the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, which delivers this award with the European Commission every two years. Reykjavik’s new Concert Hall and Conference Centre ‘The Harp’, designed by Henning Larsen Architects, Studio Olafur Eliasson and Batterrío, won the 2013 Mies van der Rohe Award, which comes with €60,000 and a small sculpture reproducing the pavilion created by the German architect in Barcelona. In addition, the Spanish architects María Langarita and Víctor Navarro won the Special Mention Award for Young Talent for their music academy in Madrid’s former slaughterhouse (Matadero). The award ceremony took place in Barcelona’s Mies van der Rohe pavilion, in Montjuic.
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CaixaForum Girona received more than 131,000 visitors in 2012
CaixaForum Girona, the social and cultural centre of “La Caixa” savings bank in the Catalan city of Girona played host to 131,158 visitors in its second year of existence. Among the different activities that took place during last year, the exhibitions registered the biggest affluence of visitors, followed by educational activities, concerts, family activities, conferences and social projects. The exhibitions dedicated to Monet, Gauguin, Rusiñol and Sunyer, the maternity photographs of Bru Rovira and the Louvre’s Egyptian collection were the most popular activities.