Amid a backlash by locals fed up with party-loving visitors, the city’s tourism authority has teamed up with museums to promote a series of exhibitions.
Barcelona, the crown jewel of the Catalonia region of Spain, is a city that weaves an enchanting tapestry of culture, art, history, and of course food. Nestled along a sun-kissed Mediterranean shore, this vibrant city mesmerizes visitors.
The Fundació Joan Miró presents the first solo exhibition in Spain by Vietnamese-American artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen (Saigon, 1976), winner of the eighth edition of the Joan Miró Prize.
Pride Month is here, and while the celebrations go on as they always do, this year’s have been shadowed by a wave of trans- and homophobic incidents as well as by a spate of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation coming out of Republican-controlled statehouses.
Joan Miró saw art as an intrinsic part of life, with magical attributes that had to be reclaimed. To achieve this objective, he did not hesitate to tear up the academic conventions of painting.
The title of the exhibition is a reference to Bimbo, one of the several cats Paul Klee (1879–1940) had as pets in his lifetime, and which he photographed with genuine devotion.
In her work, the artist Marria Pratts (Barcelona, 1988) takes apart the stereotypes of urban life, opening a path amidst the decadence of a decaying world to salvage its beauty.