The end of the most musical season in Barcelona is approaching and the musical Billy Elliot will have been on the bill since October to definitively lower the curtain at the Victòria theater in Barcelona on May 22.After four years in Madrid surfing the pandemic...

The Primavera a la Ciutat will offer about 200 performances in 14 halls and spaces in the city of Barcelona. Sala Apolo, La (2) de Apolo, Razzmatazz 1 and Razzmatazz 2, Sidecar, Paral·lel 62, RED58, La Tèxtil, La Nau, LAUT, Bóveda, VOL, el Poble Espanyol...

The sixth sense made him notice that piece. Laura Young, a collector and owner of a vintage store in Austin, Texas, spotted a bust on the floor under a table. It looked quite dirty and quite old. It had a marked price: $34.99.This happened in 2018, in one...

While browsing in a bookstore, I remembered an old article by Geneviève Idt in which he defined Jean-Paul Sartre as 'un maître-préfacier”, that is, as a master prologue or, more colloquially, attending to the double meaning of maître in French,...

The Mona Lisa of pop culture, named Marilyn Monroe by the grace of Andy Warhol, has marked a milestone at Christie's. Warhol's iconic portrait of the actress in 1964, two years after her death, sold for $170 million in Jussi Pylkkanen's sledgehammer...

Whoever travels to Pristina these days will discover a dynamic city that does not lack projects. The most relevant is the start in July of the Manifesta art biennial, which will undoubtedly be the event with the greatest global projection in the short history...

'This book is a call to revolution. Earth is in danger. She can't handle everything we demand of her." This is how Harmony begins. A new way of seeing the world, the book in which Prince Charles, together with the environmentalist Tony Juniper and...

It's been almost half a century since trains have stopped or left Estació del Nord. Today, buses have replaced trains at the terminus and the old railway facilities are a gymnasium, Guàrdia Urbana barracks and a park. But on the façade there is still...

A little more than two months after the premiere of Manifesta 14, the biennial staff and municipal workers are making an effort to recover for art spaces that evoke times that are not always exemplary. This is one of the challenges of an edition that will...

If you travel on Air France, don't expect to hear his voice over the loudspeaker mid-flight saying "the captain is speaking to you." Because in the cockpit of the Airbus A320, the British Daniel Harding (Oxford, 1975) does not command as much as on the...

Barcelona will triple the authorized street music points, which will arrive in all the city's districts. The increase in musical spaces on the street is one of the actions included in the new government measure Culture and public space: right to access...

Archaeologists from the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism have unearthed the oldest known buildings in the United Arab Emirates on Ghagha Island, west of the capital. They are from 8,500 years ago, indicating that human settlement in the region...

They promised them prosperity in exchange for obedience and they complied. But the reality they found was very different: a future with few exits. Violeta Serrano (León, 1988) belongs to that ultra-prepared generation that decided to emigrate with the 2008...

María Margarita, the only girl of five siblings, lived in a mining town in northern Chile in the 1960s before televisions entered homes, when books and movies were the great door open to fantasy. On Sundays, María Margarita's father took his children...

On April 30, a group made up of 32 dancers between the ages of 8 and 28 won the "Hip Hop International HHI Spain" National Championship and qualified for the World Championship in Arizona (United States), in the "Megacrew" category. The dance group is called...

'People age much worse than books”, says Sergi Pàmies as a result of the reissue, 25 years later, of La gran novel·la sobre Barcelona, ​​now with a prologue by Jordi Puntí and an epilogue by the author. So, the book caused a stir, among other...

The Barcelona Archaeological Service (ICUB) has discovered two skeletons from the Roman era during the redevelopment of Can Batlló-Magòria, in the Sants-Montjuïc district, according to a statement.Archaeological work has determined that there is a first...

Years ago I was told of someone who had had a horrible nightmare. He dreamed that he was awake while everyone else was asleep; then he dreamed that he fell asleep while everyone else woke up. But the worst would not be that, but what would come later. Already...

In 1991, the lifeless body of Corneille Richelin, a brutally murdered mystery writer, is found in a locked room. A classic case of seemingly unsolvable crime. Like those that Richelin himself wrote in his novels during the 1930s. This is how Pesadillas ex...

Gaudí and his Casa Batlló, in an innovative reinterpretation, went up for auction at Christie's on Tuesday night, at its headquarters in New York's Rockefeller Plaza. The NFT, a digital piece created by Turkish-American new media artist Refik...

In the summer of 1985 Salvador Dalí, installed in the Galatea Tower in Figueres for a few months, still had a very clear head and when he was in the mood he gave instructions about his Theatre-Museum, had science articles read to him, dictated short texts......

Every last Sunday of the month you can visit the Gothic cloister of the monastery of Santa Maria de Montsió in its current location, in Esplugues de Llobregat. He has been there since the late 1940s, but before that he was in Barcelona. First next to the...

The European tour of the album Local honey by the North American singer and songwriter Brian Fallon, accompanied by his band The Howling Weather, performs tomorrow Thursday in Barcelona. The former leader of the group The Gaslight Anthem, who is now on an...

José María Sanz, Loquillo, returns to the forefront of recording with his studio album Diario de un trugua (Warner), a work composed in complicity with the musicians Igor Paskual and Sabino Méndez and the poet Gabriel Sopeña. And he has already begun...