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The Namesakes of Barcelona’s Most Iconic Streets and Plaças

Barcelona’s street names read like a compressed history of Catalonia itself. Politicians, royals, philosophers, poets, artists, generals, and saints all leave their mark, etched into plaques on street corners across the city. Look up as you walk: these names quietly reveal how Barcelona was shaped as much by ideas, ambition, and power struggles as by […]

Barcelona’s Top Chefs Share their Favorite Tapas Restaurants

Barcelona may be famous for avant-garde gastronomy, but ask the city’s top chefs where they go on their days off, and you’ll often find them tucked into traditional bars, sipping vermouth and sharing small plates. Tapas—simple, flavorful, and rooted in local culture—remain a cornerstone of the Catalan dining experience. Here’s a look at some favorite […]

Henri Cartier-Bresson. Watch! Watch! Watch!

Key witness to the history of the 20th century, the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908, Chanteloup-en-Brie, 2004, Montjustin), was known as the “eye of the century”. A patient and silent observer, but at the same time agile and expeditious, the artist captured scenes of people and events with his compact 35 mm Leica camera. With […]

Becoming Marilyn & Becoming Elvis

The double exhibition “Becoming Marilyn & Becoming Elvis” brings to Barcelona for the first time photographs of Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe by Alfred Wertheimer and André de Dienes. The exhibition is organized by Fotonostrum, in collaboration with MUUS Collection, a collection of archives photography companies based in the United States, dedicated to collecting and […]

AI: Artificial Intelligence

From 18th October 2023 to 17th March 2024 at CCCB. Never before has a technology grown so fast and made its way so directly into our lives. The exhibition looks at the role of artificial intelligence in everyday life, the opportunities it presents for scientific and biomedical research, the present-day situation of local and international […]

Nancy Holt / Inside Outside

From 13 July to 7 January 2024 Nancy Holt / Inside Outside is the first major European survey of Nancy Holt’s artistic legacy and features a wide selection of projects made between 1966 and 1992. Inside and outside are compelling concepts that run throughout her five decades of artistic output. Holt’s spatial and visual poetry […]

Jules Ainaud’s Catalonia (1871-1872)

From June 8 until September 3KBr Photography Center in Barcelona – Fundación MAPFRE Between 1871 and 1872 Jules Ainaud (Lunel, France, 1837-Barcelona, 1900) travelled around various towns in Catalonia to take photographs of places of scenic and artistic interest for J. Laurent establishment, the most important firm of the time in the production and marketing […]

Fotonostrum: L’Eterna Bellezza

From May 19 to July 30, 2023FotoNostrum Mediterranean House of PhotographyC/ de la Diputació, 48, 08015 Barcelonawww.fotonostrum.comAbove: Rosalía by Paolo Roversi in the 2020 Pirelli Calendar. © Paolo Roversi, 2019. The first Pirelli Calendar exhibition in Barcelona opens at FotoNostrum at Calle de la Diputació 48 , near Plaza España. The exhibition, titled L’Eterna Bellezza, […]