The journey of Gaudí’s Batlló chair: Casa Valle’s redesign captivates US audiences
The NYCxDesign Festival showcased furniture designs by the greatest exponent of Catalan modernism
The event that heralded a globalized world in the 19th century (and is still going strong)
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World’s Fairs were created to launch futuristic technology and products, but ended up selling ideas and experiences. 174 years after the first event, Osaka expects 28 million visitors from April 13 to October 13
From the Fool to the World: The cultural about-face of tarot, beyond psychics and fortune-telling
An exhibition and several books explore the links between the mysterious deck of cards created in the Italian Renaissance with history, art and creativity
The resurrection of Luna Luna, the amusement park designed by artists such as Dalí, Basquiat and Keith Haring
A traveling exhibition currently in New York showcases the original installations, restored after being in storage since 1987, with funding from rapper Drake
A version of ‘Dune’ by Jodorowsky: One of the most influential films in the history of cinema that was never made
With a stellar cast, an unprecedented production design and music by Pink Floyd, it had everything required to become one of the biggest films of the 20th century. But no one in Hollywood wanted to support it. It turns out, however, that there was no need: today, it’s a cult classic, without even existing
Picasso passes the baton to Dalí
2024 will mark 120 years since the birth of the Catalan artist Dalí, perhaps making it an optimal moment to rethink his extraordinary timelessness
The unending fight against fake works of art
Counterfeits are proliferating on the market thanks to fraudulent certificates, the hunt for a bargain, and the ability of scammers to convince collectors
Guy Debord, the French Marxist theorist who dissected the ‘Society of the Spectacle’
Philosopher Anselm Jappe’s reissued biography breathes new life into the influential former leader of the Situationist International
The egg, an inspiration for art from Ancient Egypt to Salvador Dalí
The book ‘The Gourmand’s Egg. A Collection of Stories & Recipes’ seeks to place this universal symbol in its rightful place in history
A banquet of Spain’s top cookbooks
Twenty years after elBulli took the world by storm, chefs have become celebrities and publishers have joined the party with a host of new tomes on cuisine