The well-known Gaudi’s building la Pedrera holds an exposition combining art and food – El arte de comer: La naturaleza muerta de Ferran Adrià   The food and gastronomy has always been a source of inspiration for many artists and this 130 works exposition is the best proof. The exposition is divided into four parts: The first one shows the progress of the still life from the baroque period till the avant-garde. The second one and the most surprising is the contemporary art. Visitors can discover here different works such as meat-made chair, a huge saucepan full of mussels...

The outstanding Strauss Festival Orchestra will offer the traditional New Year’s concert at the Palau de la Musica Catalana with the best Johann Strauss waltz and polkas. The Strauss Festival Orchestra has had great success at the different European auditoriums such as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Leipzing Gewandhaus, Berlin Philarmonie or the Hamburg Musikhalle. The Orchestra consists of great qualified professional teachers and soloists that keep the typical Viennese artistic expressions. The Palau de la Musica was opened on February 9th 1908 and is one of the most representative Catalan...

Asensio Juliá portrait A private foundation exposes five oil paintings of the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746-1828). Is not easy to gaze at Goya’s works in Catalonia, but fortunately, from 10th November until 13th February 2011, it will be possible to see five Goya’s oil paintings at the De Luca Giordano a Goya exhibition, at the Godia Foundation in Barcelona. This exhibition is based on the XVIII century, from Baroque to Romanticism. A part from the five Goyas there are also 18 pieces from the artists Giordano, Tiepolo, Mengs, Meléndez, Bayeu and Giaquinto. The last time there...

The Dalí Theatre-museum presents an exposition that shows the collaboration between Salvador Dalí and Walt Disney working together on a short movie. Although is hard to believe, these two visionaries worked together for a while in 1946, the project was a short movie called Fate. Dali’s job was to create several drawings for the movie. Fate was inspired by a Mexican song of the artist Armando Dominguez. The song emphasize the fact that how we wait for the fate to appear in our lives while the time just goes by. The exposition shows 27 drawings and different pictures of Dalí during the...

The Mayoral art gallery exposes 34 paintings, sculptures and drawings of the artists Miró and Barceló. 6 years after collecting the works the gallery is now ready to show it in a unique and combined exposition. Biel Mesquida, Barceló’s friend from the 70’s, declare that there has always been a deep connection between Joan Miró and Miquel Barceló, “they both are energetic, permanently creating and quickly”. The exposition collects Joan Miró’s works as Monument 1958 and Oiseau s’enfuyant 1959, as well as Miquel Barceló’s works as in Extremis III 1994 and the brilliant 3 tomates coupées...