About Barcelona

Motörhead - The World Is Yours

To coincide with the release of their upcoming 20th studio album, The World Is Yours, Motörhead will embark on a UK tour in November 2010 and on a European tour in December 2010, being on stage in Barcelona on December 17 in the Sant Jordi Club concert stage.
The British  group Motörhead is a rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Ian Fraser Kilmister (the only  constant member of the band) , known mostly by his stage name Lemmy. The rock/heavy-metal band,  usually a power trio, had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Top chart and the albums Overkill, Bomber, Ace of Spades, and particularly No Sleep 'til Hammersmith cemented Motörhead's rock reputation.
The sound of Motörhead is typically classified as heavy metal, even though, Lemmy dislikes the label, preferring to describe the band's music simply as "rock n' roll" and usually opening live shows with the line "We are Motörhead; We play rock and roll". Motörhead's approach has remained the same over the band's career with their appreciation of early rock and roll and the lyrics cover current topics as war, good versus evil, abuse of power, promiscuous sex, substance abuse, and "life on the road"
Motörhead current members of the band are Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister / vocals, bass, Phil Campbell / guitar, backing vocals and Mikkey Dee / drums, percussion.
Motörhead  will be in Barcelona in the Sant Jordi Club, a medium size concert space opened in 2007 equipped with the very latest light and sound equipment, used for concerts of small or medium capacity that can accommodate up to 3.000 people, that forms part of the Palau Sant Jordi Sports Arena complex on the Montjuic Mountain right next to the Olympic Stadium.

Lady Gaga - The Monster Ball Tour

The Monster Ball Tour is the second worldwide concert tour by Lady Gaga in support of her second studio album, The Fame Monster. The Monster Ball Tour began November 27, 2009, four days after the release of The Fame Monster album, and a month later that her previous concert Tour with rapper Kanye West, titled Fame Kills, was suddenly canceled.
Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born in New York in March 1986) is an American recording artist, better known by her stage name Lady Gaga. She began performing in the Lower East Side rock music scene of New York City's in 2003 and enrolled at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. During her early time, at Interscope Records, she worked as a songwriter for fellow label artists.  Her vocal abilities captured the attention of Akon (Aliaune Badara Akon Thiam) Senegalese-American R&B singer-songwriter, rapper, business man and record producer who signed her to his own label, Kon Live Distribution. Lady Gaga debut album, The Fame, released on August 2008, reached number one in the UK, Canada, Austria, Germany and Ireland, and she won the award for "Best New Artist", while her single "Paparazzi" won two awards for "Best Art Direction" and "Best Special Effects in the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
The Monster Ball Tour show is divided into five segments with the last one being the encore. Each segment featured Gaga in a new dress and was followed by a video interlude, portraying Gaga in Gothic and artsy poses, to the next one.
Gaga has been influenced by glam rock artists such as David Bowie and Queen (The Queen song "Radio Ga Ga" inspired her stage name, "Lady Gaga"[) as well as pop music artists such as Madonna, Britney Spears and Michael Jackson and has also stated fashion is a source of inspiration for her songwriting and performances, considering Donatella Versace her muse. Lady Gaga has her own creative production team (that creates many of her clothes, stage props, and hairdos) called the Haus of Gaga, which she handles personally.
The Monster Ball Tour is dated to end on May of 2011 after a total of 181 shows through North America, Europe, Oceania and Asia. Lady Gaga will be on stage at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona on December 7, 2010.

Shakira Live in Concert - Barcelona

Shakira Live In Concert, the Tour of Earthly Delights, is the fifth concert tour by Colombian singer-songwriter, Shakira. The tour is in support of her sixth and seventh studio albums, She Wolf, due out in October 2009, and Sale El Sol, that will be released on October 2010. The tour starts on September 15, 2010, in Canada, continues with several concerts in the United States and arrives to Europe in November being in Barcelona on November 24th at the Palau Sant Jordi.
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, known professionally as Shakira, is a Colombian singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, dancer, and philanthropist who emerged in the music scene of Latin America in the early 1990s. She was  born February 1977 and raised in her hometown of Barranquilla where she  revealed many of her talents in school as a live performer, demonstrating her vocal ability with rock and roll, Latin and Middle Eastern influences and her own original twist on belly dancing.
Shakira is the only artist from South America to reach the number-one spot on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, the Australian ARIA chart, and the UK Singles Chart, and she has already won two Grammy Awards, seven Latin Grammy Awards, twelve Billboard Latin Music Awards and has been Golden Globe-nominated.
This year Shakira has also released, on May 11, the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, "Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)", featuring South African group Freshlyground, both performing  at the 2010 FIFA World Cup Kick-Off concert in Soweto on June 10 and at the final on July 11.
Through her successfully career she has also developed a philanthropic and humanitarian work founding in 1995 the Pies Descalzos Foundation, a Colombian charity with special schools for poor children all around her country, performing also at a large number of benefit concerts and  that also been designed as an International UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Michael Bublé - Crazy Love Tour

Michael Bublé will start on September 24 in the Aviva Stadium in Dublin the second group  of the European concerts of his Crazy Love World Tour and will be in Barcelona at the Palau Sant Jordi on October 30, 2010, and in Madrid at the Palacio de Deportes on October 31 in the two only concerts he will give in Spain.
Michael Steven Bublé was born in 9 September 1975, and is a Canadian singer, actor and songwriter. He has won several awards, including two Grammy Awards (2008 for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album – Call me Irresponsible and in 2010, the Michael Bublé Meets Madison Square Garden  DVD for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album multiple) several Juno Awards, a World Music Award in 2005, and others Awards together with many more nominations including several nominations for the Brit Awards.
Michael Bublé, the singer's debut album, was released on February 2003 featuring a range of standards from various eras including "Fever", "The Way You Look Tonight", "For Once in My Life", "Moondance" and "You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine", and the album reached the top ten in the UK and Canada. Bublé's second studio album, It's Time, was released on February 2005, and included other standards like "You Don’t Know Me", "Feeling Good", "Can't Buy Me Love", "Save the Last Dance for Me", "Song for You", and "Quando, Quando, Quando" (a duet with Canadian pop singer Nelly Furtado and included also an original track, "Home", co-written by Bublé, his musical director Alan Chang, and Amy Foster-Gilles. Bublé's third studio album, Call Me Irresponsible, was released on May 2007 included new songs from different eras such as Always On My Mind, Dream, I've Got The World On A String, and Comin' Home Baby (a duet with Boyz II Men). Everything". "Me and Mrs. Jones. The fourth studio album, Crazy Love, was released on October 2009. The album contains 12 tracks (and 1 bonus track), including two original songs co-written by Bublé, "Haven't Met You Yet" and "Hold On".Most of the tracks off the album were recorded live because Bublé did not want his album to sound overproduced and slick.
Michael Bublé has been described as having a vocal style similar to that of Frank Sinatra even as being an heir to Sinatra.

Barcelona Meeting Point 2010

The 14th edition of the international and professional real estate exhibition Barcelona Meeting Point will take place in the Montjuic Venue of the Fira Barcelona from October 20 to 24. On annual basis since it’s the first meeting in 1997, the Barcelona Meeting Point offers the possibility to network with the most relevant personalities in the real estate world, find the best investment opportunities, learn about the latest industry trends or find investors for a product.
The Barcelona Meeting Point is divided in three different sections.
The Professional Exhibition, where visitors may become acquainted with the latest projects and services from a wide range of companies related to the real estate world with a very large international presence.
The General Attendance Exhibition where everyday citizens can find all sorts of real estate products and services for their personal use or as an investment and where visitors may compare mortgage loans or become acquainted with existing insurance and valuations.
And the International Symposium, where more than 130 national and international renowned speakers analyze the most current and hot real estate subjects, with the backup and support of the most famed real estate international associations, such as the Urban Land Institute or the Global Real Estate Institute, and some of the best world business schools, such as IESE and ESADE. 
The Barcelona Meeting Point organizes also several parallel events such as the Leaders in Real Estate Dinner, the Presidents Dinner, The Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony or the Exclusive Luncheons that gather the top leaders in the industry.

Digital Lancelona V 2.0 Festival

The 2nd Barcelona Lan Party will take place at the Palau Sant Jordi in the Barcelona Olympic Complex from the 9 to the 12 of October of 2010, in the same venue of the first edition of Lancelona V. 1.0 that was a great success.
The Digital Lancelona Festival is a unique event in Barcelona that is based on new technologies. The Barcelona Lan Party 2010 is a Digital Festival of entertainment and knowledge where the people is the protagonists of all these developments that change our lives. It is also a forum for people to share their hobbies and interests. In this new edition there will be again the Lan party zone and also a free zone.
The Lan parties are based on interconnection of computers. The word LAN stands for Local Area Network (LAN) and the word Party means that is a feast. The name Lan Party comes from the way computers are interconnected: through a local area network (LAN), allowing them to exchange data at high speeds. There are different variations of LAN, there is wireless and wired networks. Usually the connections are through wired networks as they get a lot more speed and performance and avoid interference own wireless networks.
A LAN party is an event that brings together a group of people with their computers to play games, share and exchange information, and to meet people, make friends and learn from others about technology.
The Lan Party is mainly organized to play LAN games, but there are many other activities to share files, resources, work, share information, courses, conferences, etc. In addition, these meetings are for users to meet face to face, since most of the time they meet only through the Internet.
Lan Party Barcelona 2010 is organized by Packet Loss, a nonprofit organization whose purpose is to promote new technologies in society. The goal is to create a linkage between citizens, businesses and public entities.

Supertramp - The 70-10 Tour

To celebrate 40 years in the business, since the release in 1970 of their first album “Supertramp”, Rick Davies and some of the members of group are back on stage with their European 70-10 Tour.
Supertramp, a British progressive rock band, released a series of top-selling albums in the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1969, Roger Hodgson, joined Rick Davies in the formation of the group with other members including Richard Palmer (guitar, balalaika, vocals) and Robert Millar (percussion, harmonica). Initially, Roger Hodgson sang and played bass guitar (and, on the side, guitar, cello and flageolet). The band was called Daddy from August 1969 to January 1970, and before releasing their first album the name was changed to Supertramp.
This 70-10 Tour tour will begin on September 2, 2010 in Halle, Germany and will include thirty-five shows in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, Holland, England and Ireland.
Joining one of Supertramp’s founders, lead singer and keyboardist, Rick Davies, are other members of the band, John Anthony Helliwell, saxophones and woodwinds, and Bob Siebenberg, drums. Veterans of past Supertramp tours, Jesse Siebenberg, lead vocals, guitars and percussion, Cliff Hugo, bass, Carl Verheyen, guitars and Lee Thornburg, horns, will round out the lineup. Co-founder and composer Roger Hodgson will not participate.
The band will be presenting the Supertramp 70-10 Tour in Barcelona at the Palau Sant Jordi on September 18.

European Athletics Championship

The 20th European Athletics Championships will be held in Barcelona from July 27 to August 1,2010, under the auspices of the European Athletics Association and the Royal Spanish Athletics Federation. The opening ceremony will be Monday, July 26, and the competitions will be in the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys in the Olympic complex of the Montjuich Mountain except the road tests of Racewalking and Marathon which will run on urban street circuits in central Barcelona. More than 1,200 athletes from Europe from the 50 member countries will compete in these days in 24 and 23 disciplines in men and women.
The circuit of the Marathon of the 20th European Athletics Championships Barcelona will be totally urban and alongside some of the main icons of the architecture of the City. The race will be almost completely flat (6 to 27 meters over sea level); the departure and arrival will be on the Passeig de Picasso, at the side of the Parc de la Ciutadel.la. Athletes will pass through the interior of the Arc de Triomf , and through the Rondas to reach the Plaza de Catalunya and continue to get to the Plaza Universidad; then turn into Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes till Passeig de Gràcia going up to Aragon Street, near the Casa Batlló, and come back down through the same Boulevard to the Gran Via, and from there to descend through Marina leaving the Agbar Tower on the left going to  the twin towers in the Olimpic Port; from there close to the seafront to bind first Ciutadella Park and through the Paseo de Colon reach the monument of Columbus and return through the same Avenue to the Parc de la Ciutadel.la.

Swab International Contemporary Art Fair

Barcelona Contemporary Art Fair at the Fira Barcelona, May 2010

The first editions of the Swab Art Fair took place at Drassanes Reials of Barcelona but in this 4th edition the Fair has moved to the Montjuic Venue of the Fira Barcelona and the event will take place in the Z6 Pavilion (Italian pavilion) at the side of the Montjuic Fountains from May 13 to 16.
Swab Barcelona was founded in 2006 under the initiative of Barcelona private collection Diezy7 and the support of Leo Koenig gallery (Leo Koenig, Inc., New York), Fred Mann (Fred LTD, London) and Marta Moriarty (Empty, 9, Madrid).
It is the aim of the organizers to present emergent contemporary art from around the world art scene being a platform for a young generation of artists from national and international galleries from different places of the world like Barcelona, Torino, Madrid, Berlin, London, La Habana, Paris, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Sevilla, Granada, Bordeaux, Aarhus and other cities up to a number of 40 galleries that will be attending to this event.
 

28º Salón del Cómic de Barcelona

Barcelona - Fira Montjuic – April 2010

The 28th Salón del Cómic de Barcelona will be held from May 6 to May 9 in the Hall 8 of Fira de Barcelona Montjuic, with an outstanding list of invited authors from Europe and North America like Jacques Tardi , creator of one of French comics' most famous heroines, Adèle Blanc-Sec, north americans Gilbert Shelton, creator of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Fat Freddy's Cat, Wonder Wart-Hog, Not Quite Dead and Jeff Smith, creator of the self-published comic book series Bone,  Italian Tanino Liberatore, very well appreciated as an artist and illustrator for "Transfert" "Métal Hurlant" or "A Suivre" and as a screenwriter for "L'Echo des Savanes" and "Chic" and Lewis Trondheim (Laurent Chabosy), French cartoonist and one of the founders of the independent publisher L'Association among others, and also to mention Ethan Van Sciver, American comic book artist, best known for illustrating a number of titles including Green Lantern, Superman/Batman, New X-Men, and currently, The Flash: Rebirth.
As usual in recent editions there will be special honour guests to comic book artists from Holland and Euskadi.
The poster of this edition is signed by Ana Miralles, winner of the Hall Grand Prix 2009.

Aerosmith in Barcelona

Cocked, Locked, Ready to Rock Tour 2010
The rock band Aerosmith will be in the Palau Sant Jordi of Barcelona on Sunday June 27 for the only concert that the band will perform in Spain. The rock band is celebrating the 40 years of the group, and in this concert they will review their entire career with their best hits like 'Dream On' and 'Sweet Emotion'.
Aerosmith is an American hard rock band many times  referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston” which through the years has gone from their roots blues-based hard rock mixing with elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues. Through their long life as a band they has inspired many rock artists that have appeared later.
The band was formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970 by Guitarist Joe Perry and bassist Tom Hamilton together  with singer Steven Tyler, drummer Joey Kramer, and guitarist Ray Tabano. In 1971, Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford.
They have released a string of multi-platinum albums, beginning with their 1973 eponymous debut album. Aerosmith has become the best-selling American rock band of all time having sold 66.5 million albums in the United States and more than 150 million albums worldwide. The band has hold the record for the most gold and multi-platinum albums by an American group.

Eros Ramazzotti returns to Barcelona

Presenting his last studio album Ali e Radici Eros Ramazzotti will be in the Palau Sant Jordi on February 15th after his concert in Madrid on February 13th. Eros Luciano Walter Ramazzotti (born on October 28, 1963), known simply as Eros Ramazzotti, is an Italian singer and songwriter and one of the most popular artists in Italy and not only well known in most non English-speaking European countries but also in most of the Spanish-speaking countries as he has released most of his albums in both Italian and Spanish.
In this world tour that will take Eros Ramazzotti throughout Europe and America he will present this last album, recorded in Los Angeles with first-rate musicians as drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and guitarist Mike Landau. After the silence of four years Ali e Radici is the 11th studio album of Eros and contains 11 new songs. Through the tour will be accompanied on stage by great musicians: Claudio Guidetti (guitars), Michael Landau (guitars), Gary Novak (drums), Reggie Hamilton (bass), Everette Harp (winds), Nicola Peruch (keyboards), Luca Scarpa (piano and keyboards), Vergati Chiara (vocals), Sarah Bellantoni (vocals), Romina Falconi (vocals). The songs of this album have been produced by Eros Ramazzotti and Claudio Guidetti and composed Adelio Cogliati (letters) and Guidetti and Eros (music). Six themes have as co-producer Michele Canova (producer and collaborator Tiziano Ferro Laura Pausini). Paul Buckmaster (producer of classic albums by Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Miles Davis and David Bowie, among others) has written the song arrangements L'Orizzonte and has arranged and conducted the orchestra in other subjects. David Rossi (arranger of strings of Viva la Vida by Coldplay), has also collaborated on some songs on the album.
In the past 25 years, Eros Ramazzotti has sold worldwide over 50 million copies of the various albums he has published. Thorug the years the Italian star has done duets with several prestigious artists such as Cher, Tina Turner, Andrea Bocelli, Patsy Kensit, Anastacia, Joe Cocker, Luciano Pavarotti, Laura Pausini, and Ricky Martin. 

Convidats d’Honor - Guests of Honour

MNAC- December 09 to April 10

To celebrate the 75 anniversary of the inauguration of the Museu d’Art de Catalunya, the MNAC is celebrating it by bringing together 75 masterpieces of Catalan art from different periods belonging to private collections, Catalan, European and American museums, and ecclesiastic patrimony. From December 2 2009 to April 11 2010 the show will allow a journey through the history of Catalan art from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Important pieces of great artistic quality from the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods, the nineteenth century, and the first three decades of the twentieth century. For some of these art works it is the first time they have left their usual place in the churches or cathedrals of Catalunya to be included in this commemorative exhibition, and in some cases like the Beget Majesty, a major work of Catalan Romanesque sculpture church of Sant Cristòfor in Beget, or the great Gothic altarpiece of the Virgin of L’Escala by Joan Antigó, in the monastery church of Sant Esteve in Banyoles, it will serve also to carry out the restoration of the works.
It is also the opportunity to see together with these masterpieces other that actually are located outside of Catalunya, like Pere Oller’s relief from the tomb of King Ferdinand I of Antequera, originally in the monastery of Poblet and now in the Musée du Louvre; the Annunciation by Bernat Martorell from the Musée des beaux-arts in Montreal; Mediterranean, by Aristides Maillol, from the Musée d’Orsay or The Farmer’s Wife by Joan Miró from the Centre Georges Pompidou, as examples. Other works have been presented by Catalan institutions and museums, like the embroidery of Saint George and the Princess from the chapel in the Palau de la Generalitat; the embroidered frontal of Jesus and the Evangelists from the Museu Episcopal de Vic, or Marià Fortuny’s The Carpet Seller from the Museu de Montserrat.
The celebration of the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Museum of Catalan Art gives the MNAC the opportunity to house for a few months this excellent selection of Guests of Honour from well known names like Joan Miro, Isidre Nonell, Joaquim Sunyer, Antoni Gaudi, Salvador Dali, Santiago Rusiñol, Ramon Casas, Juli Gonzalez, Mariá Fortuny, Aristides Maillol, Joaquim Mir, Pau Gargallo, Mestre de Cabany, and many others in only one exhibition.

Font Magica de Montjuic

One of the interesting sites to visit in the Montjuic Mountain which attracts large numbers of visitors, including both local and foreigners, is the Font Magica at the end of Reina Maria Cristian Avenue.
For the Great Universal Exhibition of 1929 the engineer Carles Buigas designed and ambitious project of fountains, cascades, ponds, jets that went from the Palau Nacional, up on the Montjuic mountain up to Plaza España, ending with a bright row of columns on either side of the Reina Maria Cristina Avenue (now replaced by illuminated jet fountains of similar proportions). At the time of the project many thought that it was too ambitious to be created, so unexpected and stunning that it was even branded by some as madness.
Over 3000 workers were commissioned to work on this technically amazing engineer and physics project to be finished in less than one year; the first performance took place on May 19, 1929. Buigas discovered that the light should be concentrated so as to avoid larger beams obscuring smaller ones.
In the middle of this amazing project was built the main element of this set of plays of light and water, La Font Magica (Magic Fountain), a rounded shaped fountain of more than 50 meters of diameter. In the 1980s to make a greater spectacle the music was joined to the show, and shortly before the 1992 Olympic Games the fountains were restored completely.
In general performance times of the Magic Fountain of Montjuic are:
From October 1st to January 6th and from February 13th to April 30th:l Fridays and Saturdays from 19:00 h to 21:00 h; Music and color show at: 19/ 19.30/ 20 /20.30 h.
From May 1st to September 30th: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 21:00 h to 23:30 h. Music and color show at:  21 / 21.30 / 22 / 22.30 / 23 h.
The 1st Saturday of June it Works without music to celebrate the 'Nit de l'Havanera' (genre of Cuban popular dance music brought to Catalunya by sailors at the ends of 19th Century)
Christmas and Easter week: from Thursday to Sundays Music and color show at: 19/ 19.30/ 20 /20.30 h.
From January 7th to February 12 the fountains are not working for annual technical revision.

Davis Cup by BNP Paribas

The 2009 Davis Cup by BNP Paribas World Group Final will be played this weekend (december 4,5 and 6) in Barcelona, in the covered Palau Sant Jordi over a Red Clay surface. The first two matches on Friday will be played by R. NADAL from Spain versus T.BERDYCH from Czech Republic and D.FERRER from Spain versus R.STEPANEK from Czech Republic. The double match will be played on Saturday with the couples formed by F.LOPEZ / F.VERDASCO from Spain versus L.DLOUHY / J.HAJEK from Czech Republic. The last two individuals will be played on Sunday starting at 12:00Hs with R.NADAL (SP) v. R.STEPANEK (CZE) and after D.FERRER (Sp) v. T.BERDYCH (CZE).  The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. The largest annual international team competition in sports, run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The winner of last year ,Spain, is looking forward to win the Cup for the 4th time (2000, 2004, 2008), and for the second time in Barcelona in the Palau Sant Jordi.

Barcelona Design Week 2009

CAixa Forum, LLotja, MACBA, October 2009

For the 4th year organized by BCD, Barcelona Design Centre, will take place the BCN Design Week. This design week is an international business focused congress framed in the field of design and aimed at those companies and professionals in any industry or productive services that use knowledge and creativity as a driver of its business activity. This 2009 BCN Design Week has a special relevancy to the celebration of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation. 
The various events and activities included within the BCN Design Week offer the attendees the opportunity to learn, share and delve into varied design related topics, in order to promote Barcelona as a city of creativity, design and knowledge, strengthening the relationship between business and design and fostering greater understanding and awareness of design and its strategic value.
From 26th to 30th of October, businesses of diverse productive or services sectors, professionals and experts of the world of design as well as prestigious speakers will give themselves appointment in a platform of experiences in which the main topics to be addressed are Design Thinking & Creativity, Design Management, Mobile Design or Creativity and family business, among other topics.
This year venues were the different activities will take place during the week are the CaixaForum and the Mies Van der Rohe Pavilion in the Montjuic Mountain,the Casa Llotja de Mar and the MACBA Museum.
More information through the officialBcn Desing Week website 

Barcelona Marathon 2009

The Marató de Barcelona of 2009 will be taking place on March 1st.The race will start at 8:30 am, with an approximate running time for the first runner of 2 hours and 15 minutes, and with an expected record of participants.Open to athletes of all nationalities, licensed or non licensed.
The race will start and end in the Avinguda María Cristina on the Montjuich Mountain and it will goe through some emblematic sights of the city like the Barcelona Futbol Club Stadium (Camp Nou ), Several important Modernist buildings and works from Gaudi, Casa Batlló, Casa Milá (La Pedrera) and La Sagrada Familia, from Puig I Cadafalch , Casa Amatller, Palau Baro de Quadras and Casa de le Punxes, and from Domènech I Montaner, Casa Lleo Morera, Casa Macaya and Hospital de Sant Pablo, the classic Arc the Triomf by Vilaseca i Casanovas or the well known cOlumus Monument at the end od the Ramblas; with a visit to the Gothic Neighbourhood, passing by the Cathedral, the City Town Hall, Las Ramblas and the Drassanes building; passing by the new icons like Jean Nouvelle’s Torre Agbar, Herzog & Meuron Forum Building, the Towers of the Olympic Vila and the new Gas Natural office building by Miralles Tagliabue or the Calatrava bridge.  Going also through some of the nicest Avenues like Diagonal Avenue and the Gran Via de las Corts Catalenes in different sectors, the old beautiful boulevards of Passeig de Gracia, Passeig de Sant Joan and Passeig de Lluis Companys or the new Passeig de Litoral close to the beaches of Barcelona
The official distance of 42,195Km long, certified by the Catalan Athletics Federation, through an authorised commission of the IAAF will be a journey through the old the present and the future of the city of Barcelona
As it has happened in the previous editions of the Barcelona Marathon, the day before the celebration of the race there will be traditional Pasta Party. An event that takes place at the Marató Expo, offering pasta dishes to all the persons that will participate in the Marathon the next day.
The Winner of the last edition, Marató de Barcelona 2008, in men's category was Kenyan runner Hosea Kosgei with a time of 2h.14:42, and in women's the Ethiopian runner Mihret Tadesse, who finished the race in 2h.42:12.

The Bread of Angels - Panis Angelicus

CaixaForum Barcelona - October 08 to February 09

From Botticelli to Luca Giordano  - Collections of the Uffizi Gallery.  From a previous exhibit at Caixa Forum Madrid, CaixaForum Barcelona will host from October till February a selection of works of religious themes from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence; 45 masterpieces made between the XV and XVII, from Botticelli, Luca Signorelli, Parmigianino, Luca Giordano and Cristofano Allori among other painters.
The exhibit is not merely a succession of works from the Renaissance to the Baroque, but it follows the route of Salvation, since Adam and Eve to the New Testament. Curated by Antonio Natali, director of the Uffizi Gallery, one of the most important art galleries in the world, originally linked to the Medici family, which was enriched with works from churches and convents of the Tuscany and currently presents an extraordinary collection of Italian art.
The exhibition does not present any of the most famous works from the Uffizi Gallery but it is a good selection of works, that rarely can be seen outside Florence, of Italian art between the XV and XVII.

Juli Gonzalez

MNAC - Montjuic - November to January 2009

Nearly 3 months to visit this retrospective of Juli Gonzalez in Barcelona organized by the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.
The MNAC will be organizing the first retrospective exhibition held in Barcelona devoted to this great Catalan artist, one of the most outstanding sculptors of the early avant-garde, who pursued his artistic career in Paris.

The show will present original iron sculptures, and will also include drawings and object arts – mainly jewels – from centres like the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, the Centre Pompidou and the MNAC itself. 

Temporary exhibition room 1. Curator: Mercè Doñate, Head of the Modern Art Collection, MNAC.
 

George Kolbe - The Morning - Dawn

The Barcelona Pavilion is known as one of Mies van der Rohe‘s main works. However few observations have been made regarding Georg Kolbe’s sculpture Morning, which plays an important role as an integral component of architecture inside the building.
It is surprising also that the statue was not created for the Barcelona Pavilion, into which it was so successfully adapted. Together with the female figure Evening, Kolbe had made it for Ceciliengärten,“ the residential estate of Heinrich Lassen in Berlin-Schöneberg, where both works stood opposite one another on the central lawn. In 1927 the tinted plaster model of Morning stood in the center of a Kolbe room in the Munich Glass Palace, which the architect Wilhelm Kreis had designed. This plaster model was then shown in Barcelona in 1929. After the end of the exhibition and deconstruction of the Pavilion, the model was presumably destroyed. In the 1986 reconstruction of the Pavilion stands a bronze copy.
Shortly after the end of World War II, the bronzes Morning and Evening were separated and placed in different locations in Schöneberg, but were then reunited near the Schöneberg city hall. Since 1996 they have been back in the restored Ceciliengärten“.

Frederic Amat - Mural de le Olles

The Mural de le Olles from Frederic Amat was inaugurated in 2001. It is a link of union among the new glass building of the Institut del Teatre and the back wall of the Mercat de les Flors. The Mural is formed by an endless amount of flattened pots, cracked open, before being cooked, and pierced like bodily organs, that cover completely the back wall of the Mercat de les Flors Theatre and two doors of forged iron. It is difficult to be seeing as there is no big perspective; a different view is from the inside of the Institute, through the glass windows.
The Ciutat del Teatre (Theatre City) of Barcelona, is a large complex of facilities for the formation of students in the Institut del Teatre, and two Theatres, The Mercat de le Flors Theatre and the Lluire Theatre in the ancient Palau de l'Agricultura (from the Universal exhibition of 1929) that accommodates a main room (Room Fabià Puigserver) and one more reduced the Lluire Space, on one of the side of the Montjuïc Park.
The dedication of Frederic Amat to his painting has not prevented him from exploring other artistic expression. Amat has been working simultaneously with different disciplines: theatre, cinema, photography and set design.
 

Modern American

Joan Miro Foundation - Montjuich Mountain - October to January 09

The Joan Miro Foundation opens the season 08-09 with "Modern American", exhibition curated by Sarah Newman and Sarah Cash that brings together more than a hundred works of American Artists of the end of the nineteenth and twentieth century.
The exhibition offers an extense view of the evolution of modern art in the United States of America, exploring the different styles and techniques used, from landscape painters or artists strongly influenced by the trends of Paris, to abstract expressionism artists and others using modern techniques like photography.
The exhibition include well known names of American Artists like Willem de Kooning, Edward Hopper, Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Joseph Cornell, Thomas Hart Benton, George Bellows, John Singer Sargent, Arthur Davies, Marsden Hartley, John Sloan,  Cy Twombly, Richard Diebenkorn, Martin Puryear and Robert Mangold.
All the works form part of the permanent collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art from Washington D.C., largest privately supported cultural institution in the city, legacy of William Wilson Corcoran (1798-1888).
The exhibition,sponsored by BBVA, can be seen at the Miro Foundation from October 31 to January 25 of 2009.

Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia

MNAC - Montjuic - June to September 2008

The Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia exhibition, organized by Tate Modern, London, will be first in London from the 21st of February to the 26th of May, and in Barcelona at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya from the 15th of June 2008 to 28th of September. The exhibition explores the affinities and parallels between the work of these three artists and the Dada Movement, showing how they responded to each other’s ideas and innovations, presenting these three important artists from the first half of the 20th century. These artists with their work changed the course of art expression - Marcel Duchamp, the father of conceptualism and creator of the “readymade”, Man Ray, the celebrated photographer and painter, and Francis Picabia, the French painter and poet.
Their meeting led to the creation of the Dada movement in New York during the First World War. These artists remained friends, with periods of varying intensity, throughout their lives and shared a special artistic dialogue. At the heart of their friendship lay a shared outlook on life, which emerges in their works via jokes, a sense of irony, and a pronounced interest in eroticism.
The exhibition will present paintings, objects, photographs and films of the three artists that reflect the universe shared during their Dadaistic experience.
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain 1917 (photographed in 1917 by Alfred Steiglitz)

Chinese Contemporary Art

CaixaForum Barcelona - Montjuic - June to September 2008

China has been making big changes in the last decades, not only in politics but also an important social and cultural transformation has occurred and has been reflected by the Chinese artists and their work.
The exhibition that arrives to Caixa Forum Barcelona is a comprehensive overview of the whole Chinese contemporary abstract art, not well known outside of China. Around eighty works from more than 40 artists expressing themselves in different materials, sculptures and installations from the past three decades, that gives a clear idea how Chinese artists have responded to the new reality with a mixture of traditional cultural, philosophy and aesthetics, Zen and Buddhism with the influence of Western Modernity applied to Chinese expression of a particular State of openness and a metaphor.
The Chinese Abstract Modern art with names that actually are completely unknown outside Chine will have in the near future an important role on the new perspectives of Art.
La Caixa Forum in the Parc de Montjuic from June 4 to September 21.

Romanesque Art and the Mediterranean

MNAC - Montjuic - February to May 2008

This exhibition of Romanesque Art and the Mediterranean, Catalonia, Toulouse and Pisa (1120-1180), organized by the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya in co-production with the Sociedad Española de Conmemoraciones Culturales will be taking a look at one of the most brilliant and creative periods of Catalan Romanesque art. The show will bring together in the MNAC one hundred major twelfth-century works from museums in France, Italy, England and the United States, as well as from Pisa Cathedral, the Romanesque monuments of Toulouse and the doorway of Sant Pere de Rodes, by the Master of Cabestany. By this sculptor, one of the most outstanding figures of the time in all Europe, in the exhibition we will also be able to see the tympanum of Cabestany, one of his great masterpieces. The exhibition, moreover, is supplemented with the application of new technologies, making it possible to recreate in 3D the magnificent doorway of Ripoll (a project led by the UPC in collaboration with the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Pisa).
At the the MNAC from 29th of February 2008 to middle of May.
 

Chaplin in Pictures

CaixaForum Barcelona - December 07 to April 08

Organized by the Fundacion "La Caixa" and NBC Photographie, Paris, this exhibition is dedicated to Charlie Chaplin and his work. The exhibition is formed by around 250 documents, mainly photography’s, posters, documents and extracts of films, some of which are unpublished. Through images, the sample narrates the history of Charlie Chaplin, the actor and the public figure, from the creation of the personage of Charlot to the end of its career.

This exhibition can be seen at Caixaforum from December 20 till April 27, 2008.

Picture: The Rink, 1916. © Bubbles Inc., NBC Photographie, París

Romanesque Gallery - Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya

Montjuic Mountain - Palacio Nacional

The National Art Museum of Catalonia (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya - MNAC) in Barcelona, is housed in the Palau Nacional at the Montjuich mountain, built for the 1929 International Fair.

It was during the last 80's that the Italian Architect Gae Aulenti was commissioned to carry out the project to adapt the old structure of the building and turn it into a museum with a modern concept for the display of the several collections that form part of it. Due to many technical complications these works lasted much longer than expected and it was only in 2004 that the works ended.

From all the collections in the museum the most outstanding is the one of Romanesque Art, considered really unique in the world for the size and quality of the mural paintings, mainly Catalan work from 11th, 12th and 13th centuries, one of the richest showcases of Catalan’s cultural baggage. They are the pictorial and sculptural exponents of the Romanesque churches scattered around Catalunya. These wall-paintings of Romanesque churches and chapels where transferred to the museum carefully taken out from there original location in the small churches around the country and place back in the new structures build for the purpose created as exact reproductions of the apses and walls of the churches to the relocate the paintings. It was a very important work to preserve the paintings from robberies and destruction.  

B-estival 2008

Barcelona Eclectic music festival, July 2008. 

On its third edition this summer Music festival adds to the traditional venue from the last past two years, the Poble Espanyol, the venue of the Espacio Movistar 2.0 in the new location at the Campus Diagonal of the Barcelona University.
10 concerts during the month of July will bring music and sounds from different styles and places of the world, and rhythms of new age, pop, soul, folk, jazz or hip hop.
The opening concert will be in the Poble Espanyol with the classics B-52s starting their Funplex Tour 2008 to present the new studio album after 16 years with no record.
The next concerts will put on stage Erykah Badu, Kevin Johansen & The Nada, Loreena McKennitt and others, to end up with a night of brasilian hip hop with DJ Dolores and Marcelo D2. In Barcelona from July 9 to 29

HYUNDAI OPEN Barcelona

SWATCH FIVB Beach Volley World Tour 08, May/June 2008.

During the last week of May, Barcelona will receive, for the first time, the world’s best Beach Volleyball players looking forward for the Olympics. Barcelona will be one of the final qualifying tournaments for the best 24 men’s teams and the best 24 women’s teams looking forward on Beijing 2008.
After the events in Australia, China and Prague the Barcelona Hyundai Open is part of the SWATCH FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, which includes players from all five continents participating in more than 35 events.
Form May 26 till june 1st the Hyundai Open Barcelona will take place in a magnificent 3.500-seat stadium build up especially for the occasion close to the Magic Fountain (La Font Màgica) in the Montjuíc Mountain in front of the impressive Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC) and beside the Pavelló Mies van der Rohe.
More than 2,200 tons of sand has been brought to prepare the Central court and the adjoined courts where the different matches will take place through the week.

MotOh! BCN

Fira Barcelona in Montjuic - May 2008

The Great Motorcycle Week
The biggest event in the motorcycling industry.
The Great Motorcycle Week is coming back to Barcelona for the second time, between 8 and 11 May 2008. This is the most important event in Spain for two-wheeled vehicles.

The MotOh! BCN brings together the leading companies, offering the biggest product range and organizing spectacular activities, in an event that embraces the whole world of motorcycling.

At the Fira Barcelona in the Montjuic venue

A body without limits

Joan Miró Foundation Montjuic - October 07 to January 08

The Joan Miró Foundation is presenting from 26 October to 27 January 2008 “A body without limits”, a major exhibition sponsored by BBVA and curated by the art historian Jean-Louis Prat. Its aim is to help us to understand the changes in the portrayal of the human body that took place in the twentieth century.

Over 80 paintings and sculptures from 41 artists that cover from 1900 to 2000. Names like Matisse, Picasso, Miró, Duchamp, Chagall, Moore, Dubuffet, Tàpies and Saura, among others will serve to present the visions of the human body through the different conceptions of art in the twentieth-century.

More information at: Joan Miro Foundation

Barcelona Design Week

Caixa Forum - Barcelona Pavilion - November 2007

Better Design = Better Business. The Barcelona Design Week is an annual event eminently entrepreneurial in the area of the design in Barcelona, addressed to companies of any productive sector or of services, and to professionals of the design and other creative areas; essentially for all those that have the knowledge and the creativity as an engine of activity.
The goals of The Barcelona Design Week are to promote Barcelona as a city of creativity, design and knowledge, to strengthen the relations between design and manufacturers in all areas and to foster the knowledge about the design and its strategic value.
In Barcelona from November 5th to November 9th, at Caixa Forum and The German Pavilion from Mies Van der Rohe in Montjuich.

Barcelona Meeting Point 2007

Fira Barcelona - Montjuic - November 2007

Symposium - Real Estate Exhibition.

Barcelona Meeting Point's 11th Edition will take place on November 6th, 7th and 8th.
The Professional Exhibition will be located at Hall number 8 of Fira de Barcelona (Plaza de España). More than 80 Exhibiting Companies form Europe, America and the Middle East will attend to this event.
The International Symposium of Barcelona Meeting Point will count with the collaboration of the European Property Federation, the Global Real Estate Institute, the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, the Urban Land Institute, and the business schools ESADE and IESE.
 

The sculpture in the Hindu temples. Devotion Art

CaixaForum Barcelona - October November 07
In the Caixa Forum of Barcelona till November 18th. This exhibition is organized by Obra Social "la Caixa" and Victoria & Albert Museum, with the collaboration of the British Museum of London, and is the most important that has been dedicated to the figurative sculpture in India from European collections, and is the result of a work of investigation that counted also with the cooperation of various museums and private collectors. It is possible to emphasize also the contributions of Victoria & Albert Museum and the British Museum, the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford, the Museum für Indische Kunst of Berlin, the Musée Guimet of Paris and the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam. Photo © British Museum

Sonimagfoto 2007

Barcelona - Fira Montjuic - October 2007

Between October 3rd and 7th, almost 400 brands will be presenting all their products and applications relating to digital imagery on 180 stands at Sonimagfoto the leading exhibition of its kind in Spain and the second largest in Europe. All the innovations in consumer, professional imagery and also digital printing will be on show at Sonimagfoto and Sonimagmobile.
The most important awards for professional photography in Spain (Lux Awards 2007) will be presented on October 4th organized by the Spanish Professional Photographers’ Association (AFP).
The "Visual Art Gallery" exhibition area at Hall 8 of the Fira Montjuïc will be featuring photography exhibitions like "Picasso & Lump", by Douglas Duncan; "Uzbekistan: Silence tower", by Aitor Lara; "The Transition 1976-1981" by the argentine photojournalist Carlos Bosch; A Group exhibition: "Look at the World" from Reuters or the Project "Jam of sweet potato", commissioned by Carles Poy.

 

Jean Scully at the Miro Foundation

Retrospective Exhibition in Barcelona. Miro Foundation. June to September 2007

A retrospective of the work of Sean Scully (Dublin, 1945), who combines features of different pictorial styles – Geometrical Abstraction, Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Abstract Expressionism – to create a language of his own.
“Sean Scully: I think that I wanted to do something in my life that wasn't ordinary - which wasn't normal. I couldn't bear to live my life as a normal person, put another way: conventionally. So if I had a choice between living in suburbia and being dead, I would rather be dead. That implies I am going to do something with my life that is not ordinary. Then it is only a question of what that is. I could have gone into a number of different things.” (from the JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART )
From June 28th till September 30th at the Miro Foundation in the Montjuïc Mountain.

Lee Friedlander – Photography

CaixaForum Barcelona April to September 2007

This retrospective of the work of the North American photographer Lee Friedlander (Aberdeen, 1934) is the most important exhibition that has been organized for the moment to one of the great teachers of the present photography, now in Barcelona, after being exhibited in the Haus der Kunst of Munich and the Jeu de Paume of Paris.
Pioneer of the documentary news article, Friedlander catches the advertising routine of the city and the daily task, announcements, the facades of the stores, the television, the urban life in general.
Friedlander always worked in series: street images, flowers, trees, gardens, landscapes, nudes, the industrial and post- industrial environment, portraits, self-portraits.
This exhibition presents 477 photographs in black and white and 6 colour ones, along with the special units of its books, editions and dossiers of works, and has been organized by the MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art) of New York.
At the CaixaForum Barcelona from April 13th till June 24th, Av. Marquès
de Comillas, 6-8 08038 Barcelona, Photography: Revolving door, New York, 1963, © Lee Friedlander

William Hogarth Exhibition

Caixa Forum Barcelona, Montjuich May-August 2007

William Hogarth (1697-1764) is the most important English painter of the 18th century. Especially, he was great chronicler of the life of his period and his painting is valued mainly for the satirical vision of the British society. To understand better the rich inheritance left, the exhibition proposes to reconstruct the life and work of the painter, presenting an exhaustive itinerary of paintings, engravings and drawings that he produced, describing the London cosmopolitan environment in which he lived, in order to make more clear his important contribution to the development of the British modern art. The exhibition also counts with the contribution of works from great contemporary artists, like Yinca Shonibare, David Hockney or Paula Rego, who used the acid work of Hogarth as inspiration to create their works. At Caixa Forum from May 30th to August 26th . The Graham Children, 1742. Oil on canvas © National Gallery, London
 

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen

Fundacio Joan Miro - March  to June 2007

Sculpture by the way - Claes Oldenburg (Stockholm, 1929) and Coosje van Bruggen (Groningen, 1942) began to collaborate in the 1970s with works based on everyday objects that they turned into monumental sculptures. The first collaboration was the Trowel I, sited in the sculpture park of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands. Since then, they have made more than forty Large-Scale Projects for different cities, towns, and museums around the world. In Barcelona for the Olympic Games in 1992 they where commissioned the Mistos (Match Cover), sited at Vall d'Hebron. Steel, aluminum, fiber-reinforced plastic; painted with polyurethane enamel.Here we show their most recent pieces, accompanied by preparatory drawings and models that give an idea of the process of creation of each one.FUNDACIÓ JOAN MIRÓ, CENTRE D’ESTUDIS D’ART CONTEMPORANI - Parc de Montjuïc - 08038 BARCELONA - Tel. +34 934 439 470

BREAD & BUTTER BARCELONA SUMMER 2007

FIRA BARCELONA in Montjuic. July 2007

From July 4th to 6th, BBBarcelona will once more welcome visitors with numerous exceptional projects and novelties. More than ever before, STUDIO.V combines the artistic and experimental with commercial aspects, the intellectual with the wearable and with the largest turnout of designers so far, sets quality standards with 40 international collections. The Superior Area has been enlarged with new entrants such as Cesare Paciotti, Fabio di Nicola, Filippa K., Mauro Grifoni, Belfe, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Citizen of Humanity, The Great China Wall, Kors by Michael Kors as well as Justin Timberlake’s label William Rast have helped raise the quality level even further.

Salon del Automobil

Fira Barcelona. Montjuic - June 2007

The International Automobile Fair of Barcelona is one of the five biggest shows of its kind worldwide and the most important in Spain, both in terms of the number of visitors and the participating brands. The fair provides an in-depth look at the most important manufacturers, the most spectacular vehicles and the latest industry trends.
The fair, which will take place from June 9-17, 2007 at the Montjuïc Fairgrounds, is one of the most emblematic professional events held in the Catalan capital. It was first celebrated in 1919 and quickly became one of the most highly anticipated shows for automobile fans. It is the only Spanish event recognised by the l'Organisation Internationale des Constructeurs d'Automobiles (O.I.C.A.), headquartered in Paris. The show is also a key reference point for the most important European automotive congress, the Automotive News Europe Congress. This year's edition will feature the latest automotive novelties as well as the sector's most revolutionary models. In addition to the car show, the fair will provide participants with numerous activities, open to both professionals and the general public.

The world of Anglada Camarasa

Caixa Forum Barcelona - November 06 March 07

This exhibition considered like a great anthology dedicated to Hermen Anglada Camarasa, gathers all the stages of the work of the painter, since the beginning, by the hand of his teacher Modest Urgell, until the years of fullness. In addition, the exhibition displays the work of Anglada next to the work of his teachers and contemporaries to demonstrate the extraordinary irradiation that took place. Anglada Camarasa (Barcelona, 1871 - Port de Pollença, 1959) was one of the main names of the modern Catalan art and, with no doubt, the one that more international importance had in the change of century. Born in Barcelona in 1871, he only worked in Catalonia the first years of his life and during the period of the Spanish Civil War. The personality of Anglada Camarasa appears associate to two characteristic landscapes: the nocturnal Paris of the Belle Époque, that knew to shape with a mysterious and subtle art, and the landscapes of Majorca, where he sheltered fleeing from World War I. Anglada passed the last years of his life away from the artistic world and the tendencies more outposts of the contemporary art.

Construmat 2007

Fira Barcelona. Montjuic / Gran Via - May 2007

Interntional Building Exhibition, Construmat 2007 will be held from the 14th to the 19th of May in the Fira de Barcelona, Montjuïc and Gran Vía exhibition centres.
Construmat 2007  is the International Building Trade Exhibition held in Barcelona from the 14th to the 19th of May in the Fira de Barcelona, Montjuïc and Gran Vía exhibition centres, on Building Supplies, Ceramics for Building Purposes, Building Materials, Building Restoration and Prefabricated Concrete Units.
CONSTRUMAT will host the first ever CONCEPTO BAÑO, International Bathroom Show, which was created as a trade fair platform for sanitary ware, taps, fittings and bathroom furniture. Along the same lines, CONSTRUMAT will also incorporate PINTUDECORA, International Paint Show, which will showcase products from the paint and related services sector. 

Summer Bread&Butter Barcelona and Berlin

Fira Barcelona. Montjuic - July 2006

Barcelona is preparing for it’s third edition of the Bread&Butter  trade show from July 5th till July 7th.. The different areas of the show take place in the 'Fira de Barcelona', the fair grounds where the 1929 International Exhibition took place and in which different very well known Architects developed their work like the famous German Pavilion created by Mies van der Rohe, demolished the year after the exhibition and rebuild again in the 1980’s.
The opening of the  BBBarcelona Summer 06 edition, since it takes place at the same time as the World Cup Competition, will start with a ‘World Cup fever’ party that will take place at The former Olympic swimming stadium/ Piscina Montjuïc Municipal, where all will join together to cheer on the teams competing in the World Cup 2006 semi-finals, with a barbecue, cool drinks, and breath-taking views of the Catalan capital.
Football, street culture, DJ tunes, and the different shows will all be present in this new edition of BBBarcelona summer edition.
And when BBBBarcelona close its doors Berlin will be prepared to continue the show from July 14th to July 16th.
 

Henry Moore at the Caixa Forum

Caixa Forum Barcelona - July to October 2006

160 works of the artist, between sculptures, drawings and builds graph. Opening on July 19th and till October 29th you will have the chance to revise part of the work of one of the great artists from the XXth Century. Brought in its majority from the Henry Moore Foundation, but also from several public and deprived organizations from Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. The main subjects of Moore from his different periods are represented in the exhibition in sculptures, drawings and his graphic work. And as Henry Moore preferred to work outdoors, an important part of the exhibition will take place on the outside of the beautiful Modernist building from the Catalan Architect Puig I Cadafalch, the old factory Casaramona, now back to life by La Caixa Foundation to allocate its Collection of Contemporary Art. The contrast of the Modernist building and Moore’s sculptures will remain on our eyes.