BARCELONA.- The Hispanic phenomenon symbolizes the homogeneous framework shared by Spain and Latin America. But who built this myth and what strategies have been generated to keep it going down through the centuries, through many different regimes, ide…
Exhibition of Vintage Photographs by Leopoldo Poméson at Michael Hoppen Gallery
LONDON.- Photographs by Leopoldo Pomés are on exhibition for the first time in the UK at Michael Hoppen Gallery. Born in Barcelona in 1931, Pomés, a self-taught photographer, had a highly successful and celebrated late career in advertising in his na…
Exhibition of Vintage Photographs by Leopoldo Poméson at Michael Hoppen Gallery
LONDON.- Photographs by Leopoldo Pomés are on exhibition for the first time in the UK at Michael Hoppen Gallery. Born in Barcelona in 1931, Pomés, a self-taught photographer, had a highly successful and celebrated late career in advertising in his na…
Madison Square Park Conservancy Announces the New York Public Art Premiere of Jaume Plensa
NEW YORK, NY.- Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art announces the New York public art premiere of internationally acclaimed artist Jaume Plensa, featuring a new monumental, site-specific sculpture for Madison Square Park. Plensa’s…
"Landscapes without Memory" by Joan Fontcuberta at Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM.- For the project Landscapes without Memory Catalan artist Joan Fontcuberta (b. 1955, Barcelona) used software developed by the US Air Force. It translates two-dimensional cartographic data into a simulated three-dimensional image. Instead of…
128 Years After Construction, Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia Finally Becomes a Church
BARCELONA (REUTERS).- For decades tourists have visited the twisting spires of Barcelona’s iconic Sagrada Familia church, but 128 years after construction began Catholic faithful will worship there for the first time on Sunday. Pope Benedict XVI will c…
London’s Iconic Canary Wharf Has Scooped a Prestigious International Award for Its Public Art Programme
LONDON.- London’s Canary Wharf has won the Christie’s award for best corporate art collections and programs handed out at the 2010 International Art & Work Awards in Barcelona on Thursday. The prize, which focuses on the last three years, recognized w…
London’s Iconic Canary Wharf Has Scooped a Prestigious International Award for Its Public Art Programme
LONDON.- London’s Canary Wharf has won the Christie’s award for best corporate art collections and programs handed out at the 2010 International Art & Work Awards in Barcelona on Thursday. The prize, which focuses on the last three years, recognized w…
Fifty Paintings and Drawings by Antoni Tapies on View at the Palau Fabre Foundation
BARCELONA.- Fifty Antoni Tàpies’ paintings and drawings are being exhibited at the Palau Fabre Foundation (Fundación Palau Fabre) from today on in the “Gaze at the Hand” (“Mira la mano…”) exhibition, which shows the vitali…
Second Cycle of Exhibitions for Espai 13 at Fundació Joan Miró Opens with Marcus Coates
BARCELONA .- The Fundació Joan Miró presents Implicit Sound, the second cycle of exhibitions for Espai 13 curated by multidisciplinary artist TRES. The title of the project not only stresses its connection with the previous Espai 13 cycle, Explicit S…