What to do in Barcelona

The Cirque du Soleil show 'Kurios' is one of the must-see plans this weekend in Barcelona. © Cirque du Soleil

Cirque du Soleil, Korean cinema and a hidden palace: what to do in Barcelona this weekend

September means filling the calendar back up. Getting back into routines, picking up commitments again, and making room for everything summer had put on pause. After the calm — and sometimes the intensity — of the holidays, the pace of daily life shifts and, almost without noticing, the schedule fills...

The exhibition ‘Antoni Tàpies. The Perpetual Movement of the Wall’ at the Museu Tàpies

Exhibitions

The secrets hidden by Tàpies' walls

For Antoni Tàpies, the wall represented much more than a surface on which to paint. It was also a way of speaking about the passage of time — through the layers, cracks, stains, and graffiti that accumulate over the years — as well as about the walls that divide spaces...

Exhibitions

When not even walls can imprison art

Art has the capacity to cross walls, survive its creator’s physical imprisonment, and keep a voice alive even when freedom disappears. A song, a poem, or an image can become a form of survival and resistance. It is this power of art that runs through the work of Palestinian artists...