The Valencian art historian Rosario Peiró Carrasco (Beniarjó, 1968) will be the new director of the Museu Picasso starting in May 2026, after being unanimously selected through a competitive process. She will replace Emmanuel Guigon, who has directed the museum for a decade, since 2016. The museum's foundation thanks her for having "strengthened its international profile, increased its local audience, and consolidated a high-level exhibition program." The Picasso is the second most visited art museum in the country, second only to the Dalí Museum: last year it received more than one million visitors. Rosario Peiró will thus return to Barcelona, ​​where she earned her degree in geography and history from the University of Barcelona and where she primarily pursued her career before moving in 2008 to the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, where she arrived under the guidance of Manuel Borja-Villel as head of collections. In Madrid he has directed highly acclaimed exhibitions, such as Rethinking Guernicadedicated precisely to the work of Picasso, and had participated in the remodeling of the museum's collection with a modern perspective, including previously overlooked aspects such as exile and architecture.

King Ubu, the mythical literary creature of the Frenchman Alfred Jarry (1873-1907), is all stomach and has a pear-shaped head. He is an infamous character who caused a scandal when he was first published in 1896. The opening of the work is legendary:Shit!"And Ubu has a corrosive force that has unfolded throughout the world and reaches to this day, as can be seen from this Thursday until April 5 in the new exhibition at the Museu Picasso, the magnificent Ubu the painter. Alfred Jarry and the arts, curated by the museum's director, Emmanuel Guigon.

It was May 1991, and the National Palace, located at the foot of Montjuïc, was being remodeled to become the permanent home of the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC). It was a time of transition and chaos. In a storage room, there was a metal cabinet containing a jewel: the Sijena peace-bearer, a unique piece of Gothic goldsmithing dating back to 1400. It was a small piece, about ten centimeters, made of precious materials, which, without anyone noticing, disappeared.

Claude Picasso was given two toy cars when he was little. He was delighted with the gift, but couldn't play with it. His father, Pablo Picasso, appropriated them and made a monkey head. The hood acts as a snout and the fenders simulate lips. Claude's sister, Paloma, had the same experience with dolls. When she was 3, her father made her a series of seven dolls with her face. "As soon as he gave them to me, he took them from me, but thanks to that, we can see them, and now they're mine," she explains. Paloma Picasso, who presented the exhibition this Thursday Growing up between two artists. Tribute to Claude Picasso at the Picasso Museum in Barcelona.

MNAC, Picasso, Thyssen, Reina Sofía, Guggenheim, Tate, MoMA, Van Gogh, Munch… All these museums have in common that the gifts they sell are designed in Barcelona. With a history spanning more than 30 years, Ming Productions is the company that designs many of the notebooks, magnets, stuffed animals, and mugs found in their stores. With factories in Badalona, ​​Montgat, and Dallas (United States), the company is the result of all the ideas that Benjamín Villa, its CEO and founder, could have.