The Art Explora Festival opened its doors this Wednesday at the Barcelona dock, in Port Vell, on its first stop in Catalonia. The event, which runs until April 6, offers free admission – with prior reservation to access the museum ship – and can be visited daily from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM, with the last entry at 7:45 PM.

The Art Explora Festival opened its doors this Wednesday at the Barcelona dock, in Port Vell, for its first stop in Catalonia. The event, which will run until April 6, offers free admission – with prior reservation to access the museum ship – and can be visited daily from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM, with the last entry at 7:45 PM.

In the historic Down House, the house where Charles Darwin lived for 40 years in Kent, England, there was a space that was key to developing the theory of evolution that would bring the English naturalist worldwide fame. And it's not the table where he wrote The Origin of Speciesbut rather his garden. There, Darwin spent hours conducting small experiments with plants, such as the so-called Darwin's orchid or Christmas orchid, from Madagascar. It is a very particular species, with an extraordinarily long nectary, over 20 centimeters. The scientist predicted the existence of an insect capable of reaching the hidden nectar. The butterfly would be discovered decades later, confirming an intuition based solely on botanical observation.

In the reception area of ​​CaixaForum Barcelona, ​​small groups converse in hushed tones, their gestures discreet. They are a group of caregivers. Some already know each other, others don't, and today they are visiting the immersive exhibition. We are NatureAn experience that gives them something that daily life denies them: a pause, perspective, and the certainty that they are not alone. The activity, promoted by the Culture for All initiative together with the social programs of the "la Caixa" Foundation, reminds them that culture is not a luxury, but a right. The group—mostly women around 60 years old—participates in the Caregivers' School, an initiative of the "la Caixa" Foundation's Comprehensive Care for People with Advanced Illnesses program, which has already provided training and support to almost 10,000 people, including family caregivers and program volunteers. The visit to the immersive exhibition allows caregivers to disconnect, even if only for a few hours, from the relentless clock of caregiving. The activity is part of the Culture for All initiative, which has been working for years to eliminate barriers and facilitate access to culture for those who need it most and who may find themselves in vulnerable situations: groups of bereavement teenagers, elderly people experiencing loneliness, people in the process of entering the workforce, single mothers with children living in poverty, and professionals.

The movie The Night of Varennes (1982), by Ettore Scola, is the story of the debate surrounding the emergence of a new world on the ruins of another: the one illuminated by the French Revolution due to the collapse of the Ancien Régime. The Italian filmmaker takes advantage of the historical episode of the flight from Paris of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette – June 1791 – to bring together in the same carriage three real characters: Restif de la Bretonne, a libertine and popular writer – today we would call it a populist, perhaps with a tendency towards fake news–; Thomas Paine, the English revolutionary intellectual, and the famous traveler and seducer Giacomo Casanova, already elderly and quite physically deteriorated.

'Sardinia: The Megalithic Island' is the title of the exhibition that opened on April 16th and can be visited at the Archaeology Museum of Catalonia (MAC) in Barcelona until November 2, 2025. The exhibition, which incorporates one of the giants of the Mont'e Prama necropolis in Cabras with more than 200 exceptional archaeological objects, presents the richness and diversity of Sardinian megalithism, and at the same time, sheds light on the ways of life, customs, and traditions of the Nuragic civilization.

"I've seen things you wouldn't believe," said the replicant Roy Batty in the memorable final monologue of Blade RunnerThis iconic phrase inspires this year's thirteenth edition of the Revela't Festival, which once again transforms Vilassar de Dalt into the epicenter of analog photography and alternative photographic processes. True to the spirit of surprise and bewilderment evoked by the event, the festival offers a tour of more than twenty exhibitions by international photographers and artists, as well as all kinds of parallel activities, such as talks, workshops, and a photography market.

Every second that passes, animals we have yet to see or study disappear. Species that live in remote corners of the planet, that escape human observation, or that have been poorly documented, silently cease to exist. In this context, the Barcelona Museum of Natural Sciences presents a unique and provocative exhibition: Invisible Animals: Myth, Life, Extinction, De-extinction, which opens its doors to the public this Saturday, May 17, 2025, and can be visited until the same day in 2026.

"We all met while weaving," says Magda, one of the thirteen artists from the Tramadoras collective who are part of the exhibition. Between threads, inhabiting the fabricThey met at the Teranyina Textile School Workshop, and their works are on display at Cornellà Castle until April 27. "We are among the threads; when we weave, we live," she explains. Esther Vigara, curator of the exhibition, says that weaving is often associated with a hobby, an activity for entertainment, but never as an art form. "Many people view textiles as a craft or a home-made project, not as an artistic expression of creative fulfillment," she states.

In the last two weeks three spacecraft have arrived on Mars: one from China, one from the United Arab Emirates and one from the United States. Mars is therefore on the media agenda. All this coincides by chance with the inauguration next Thursday, February 25, of the exhibition Mart. El mirall vermell ('Mars. The red mirror') at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB). "In fact, we've been working on this exhibition for two and a half years", explains Juan Insúa, the curator of the show. "It was scheduled to open in November, but the pandemic has delayed everything", he says, which has made the exhibition coincide with the Martian news. But Mart. The Mirall Vermell goes far beyond this chance opportunity. The sciences and the humanities need each other more and more", Insúa argues, "so this exhibition, like all the projects I do, is born from a third culture perspective".