In a controversial move, the Generalitat appointed new director Vicenç Altaió to pump up the lacklustre visitor numbers for this contemporary art space....

One of the masterpieces of industrial Modernisme, this former yarn and textile factory was designed by Puig i Cadafalch and will celebrate its centenary in...

Built for chocolate baron Antoni Àmatller, this playful building is one of Puig i Cadafalch's finest creations. Inspired by 17th-century Dutch townhouses,...

This private collection of Dalí sculptures looks right at home amid the dramatic red velvet curtains and high, Gothic arches of the ground floor and...

In 2008, the Museu Tèxtil, previously located in the Born, joined the ceramic and decorative arts museums in the Palau Reial de Pedralbes, built in the...

Antoni Tàpies exploded on to the art scene in the 1950s when he began to incorporate waste paper, mud and rags into his paintings, eventually moving on to...

This private foundation is dedicated to the promotion of the photography of major Spanish and Portuguese photographers from the 1950s to the present. It...

Recently transplanted from a first-floor flat to the Casa Garriga Nogués - a Modernista masterpiece in its own right - this vast private art collection now...

Polymathic artist Joan Brossa (1919-98) left his fingerprints all over his home city, both in physical sculptures such as the letters spelling 'Barcino' by...

Josep Lluís Sert, who spent the years of the Franco dictatorship as dean of the School of Design at Harvard University, designed one of the greatest museum...

Opened in 2007, the foundation's two floors house the contemporary art collection of businessman Josep Suñol. There are 100 works on show at a time,...

A garden furniture mogul might seem at first glance to be an unlikely art collector, but Manuel Alorda and his wife Hanneke Derksen proved that there is no...

ADN (DNA in English) favours less-established contemporary artists, half of whom are locally based. Collective shows can be hit and miss so far as quality...

Alejandro Sales's contemplative, sophisticated exhibitions are given the space and tranquillity they deserve. High-profile painters José Cobo, Eduard Arbos...