from the editor

Animal welfare law: pros and cons?

Eudald Carbonell
ARCHAEOLOGIST

“If we want to survive, we have to dehumanise”

You say we’re heading for collapse?It’s already happening. In my book El futur de la humanitat (The Future of Humanity) I set out how to avoid collapse in 10 points that recall the 10 commandments.Do...

ELVIRA DYANGANI
Macba director

“We must help people make the museum their own”

Barcelona’s Museum of Contemporary Art , or Macba, started 2023 strongly with a programme of innovative projects, including Preludi. Intenció poètica (Prelude. Poetic intention) conceived of as a prelude...

LAURENT COHEN MEDINA
Co-President of the Catalan Association of Jews and Palestinians Together

“Israel is acting with total cruelty and impunity”

Cohen attributes the escalation of the current conflict in the Middle East to the constant violation of Palestinians’ rights by the Israeli authorities

Learn to cook for fun

The emergence of cooking shows in the media has spread the popularity of amateur cooking courses, with more and more people looking to cook for fun

Picasso and Miró, face to face

On the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death, the Barcelona museums dedicated to the two artists host an exceptional exhibition focusing on their artistic and human ties

Neil Stokes
THE LAST WORD
Neil Stokes

CARRIED AWAY BY ART

Barney Griffiths
THE CULTURAL TIGHTROPE
Barney Griffiths

HOME SECURITY

Martin Kirby
HEADING FOR THE HILLS
Martin Kirby

STARDUST

Matthew Tree
Long-term resident
Matthew Tree

SPEAKING IN TONGUES

Neil Stokes
THE LAST WORD
Neil Stokes

STRUCTURAL TREASURES

Barney Griffiths
THE CULTURAL TIGHTROPE
Barney Griffiths

A LONG WAY STILL TO GO

Riding the canyon

The journey of El Bulli

Autumn of concerts

Lovely ghosts

ELVIRA DYANGANI
Macba director

“We must help people make the museum their own”

Learn to cook for fun

1,322 shelters

1,322 shelters

Barcelona’s legacy of over a thousand air raid shelters built to protect the public from bombs in the Civil War is the subject of a new book

A museum dedicated to forbidden art

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Mireia Vilanova. marcela topor. mtopor@cataloniatoday.cat
is a Barcelona-born, LA-based producer working in film, TV and digital media. She has led numerous projects in the US and Europe that have screened at top-tier festivals such as Tribeca, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Outfest and Palms Springs ShortFest, among others. She is currently in pre-production on her debut feature, I Live Here Now, directed by Julie Pacino

City of opportunity

JOSEP PRAT.
Journalist and author who has worked with newspapers like La Vanguardia and the South China Morning Post. With his wife he is the owner of the PIZZA HERE chain of pizzerias in Vietnam

Landscape and culture

Christian Rodrigo
Actor, producer, director and acting coach from Barcelona

Hard work equals success

Eudald Carbonell
ARCHAEOLOGIST

“If we want to survive, we have to dehumanise”

LAURENT COHEN MEDINA
Co-President of the Catalan Association of Jews and Palestinians Together

“Israel is acting with total cruelty and impunity”

jordi roca
EL CELLER DE CAN ROCA PASTRY CHEF

“We are resolute, committed and have a solid team”

judit neddermann
songwriter

“I’ve reconnected with peace to make my music”

Wine cellar. ANNA VICENS

Wine route through Corpinnat

Wine cellar. ANNA VICENS

Wine route through Priorat

Wine cellar. ANNA VICENS

Wine route through Tarragona

Wine cellar. ANNA VICENS

Wine route through D. O. Terra Alta

Death is real

Selling arms to the enemy

Puncturing pretensions

Beating the odds

Ingrid Teixidor
Celler Oliveda

Ingrid Teixidor

Joan Mateu
Painter

Making the ordinary extraordinary

Basketmaker
Tortellà (Garrotxa)

Dani Iglesias

Actors, co-founders of escapade theatre
(Barcelona)

Sue Flack & Caspar

Digital classrooms

Blockchain, far beyond bitcoin

The never-ending search for digital talent

Mar Gutiérrez-Colón
PHD in English Philology (URV) and head of the team developing the new Art of Reading application

Learning English through fun

Pla de la Seu, Tarragona, July 2022
Photo: Xavi Vicente

The sky is the limit

Barcelona, January 2021
Photo: Juanma Ramos

Return of the Kings

The best coming art

Blanes, 2019
Photo: oriol duran

Make way for the Carnival King!