Bat-Signal to be seen in Barcelona this weekend
Saturday is Batman Day and the Catalan capital is among 12 cities in the world celebrating the Dark Knight's 80th anniversary
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‘Useful photography’ in Catalonia’s National Art Museum
A new exhibition based on the work of Oriol Maspons looks at whether art can be ‘useful’ to society
Japan showcases Catalan modernist and avant-garde art
Nagasaki is the first of five Japanese cities to host 'Barcelona. The city of artistic miracles,' an exhibition organized by the MNAC national gallery
Miralda’s renowned ‘Lamb of the Apocalypse’ returns to the MNAC
The award-winning art piece will be on display in the Barcelona gallery for the first time in 25 years
Spanish master Bartolomé Bermejo arrives in Barcelona
Some 21 works by 15th century painter go on display at MNAC in collaboration with Madrid's Prado gallery
Barcelona MNAC museum expands its collection
Three Picassos will be included in the collection of the National Art Museum of Catalonia which will also grow two rooms and debut a new exhibit
A dialogue on forgotten, failed art - a new MNAC exhibit
A new Barcelona display by sculptor and painter Pere Llobera explores the question of “art created outside official history”
Sixena frescoes to remain in Barcelona for now
The relocation of murals in the MNAC museum back to Aragon temporarily blocked by a Huesca judge due to their “fragility”
National Art Museum of Catalonia explores Romanesque footprint in Picasso's work
Picasso’s attraction to Romanesque art is to be definitively unveiled in an exhibition dedicated to him at the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC). The display will open its doors next Thursday and is co-organised with the Musée National Picasso-Paris. The exhibition includes forty works by the artist lent by the French museum, which are being added to the collection of Romanesque art from the MNAC. According to one of the exhibition’s curators, Emilia Philippot, the display demonstrates the “echoes of simplicity and primitivism” of Romanesque art in certain Picasso creations. Picasso, like other artists of his time, was attracted by the Romanesque, identified with the “childhood of art”. His interest is proved in the exhibition with various unpublished documents, such as correspondence and books belonging to the artist.
National Art Museum of Catalonia’s 2016 season to centre around Picasso
The National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) reviewed what its 2016 exhibitions would consist of, although the showings unofficially begun in December of 2015. The star exhibition of the season will be ´Picasso and Romanesque Art´, a joint venture with the Picasso Museum in Paris. Besides this, other exhibition centred onLuis “el Divino” Morales, Renaissance painting, 20th century photography and features on several Catalan artists, such as Lluïsa Vidal and Ismael Smith, will complete the MNAC’s agenda for 2016. The MNAC’s director, Pepe Serra, celebrated that the museum is finally “starting to have a normal planning rhythm for a museum of its size” which will allow the MNAC’s calendar to synchronise with “other international museums”.