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Loop
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The video art festival and fair is a creative web connecting commercial art galleries, art schools, civic centres and libraries
Apr 28, 2011 by Sara Blaylock in GOING OUT
Image coutest of Òmnium Cultural
Against all the odds
For almost 40 years, Catalan language, culture and institutions were officially suppressed by the Franco regime. How did they survive?
Mar 29, 2011 by Sara Blaylock in LIVING
By Lluís Hortalà
Review: Lluís Hortalá - Exercitatori
Taking Montserrat as his inspiration, artist Hortalà has made drawings and videos of the spiritual mountains
Mar 29, 2011 by Sara Blaylock in GOING OUT
The Otolith Group
Anajalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun are the Otolith Group and they merge documentary film with science fiction to make their art
Jan 31, 2011 by Sara Blaylock in GOING OUT
Sebastian Neitsch
Video-artist Sebastian Neitsch transforms the Goethe Institut
Jan 31, 2011 by Sara Blaylock in GOING OUT
If you lived here still...
Martha Rosler arrives with her travelling exhibition that looks at the issues surrounding housing
Dec 29, 2010 by Sara Blaylock in GOING OUT
Photo by Franáois Fleury
L'afganistan
Casa Asia exhibits a show about Afghanistan
Dec 29, 2010 by Sara Blaylock in GOING OUT
Photo by Sara Blaylock
Living locally - The life of a Locavore
Sara Blaylock lives as a locavore for a week to see just how hard it is to do in Barcelona
Nov 30, 2010 by Sara Blaylock in EATING AND DRINKING (3 Comments)
La Reial Companyia
DIY Culture
There’s a growing trend for small-scale, accessible arts performances in Barcelona with the focus on audience experience and unconventional venues
Sep 30, 2010 by Sara Blaylock in GOING OUT
© Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. MNAC. Foto: Calveras / Mèrida/ Sagristà
Joie d'artista
Famous artists turn their hands to jewellery in this new MNAC exhibition
Sep 27, 2010 by Sara Blaylock in GOING OUT
Photo by Sihaya Buisan
Art<30
The Sala Parés hosts the annual Art<30 competition which celebrates young budding artists
Aug 27, 2010 by Sara Blaylock in GOING OUT
Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth - Zuric & London
Smiles for stangers - Pipilotti Rist
Sara Blaylock takes a look at the latest exhibition of Swiss video-artist Pipilotti Rist
Jun 29, 2010 by Sara Blaylock in GOING OUT
Tracy Gilbert
Parks vs. Beaches
In the height of the summer, where's better to escape the city heat?
Jun 28, 2010 by Sara Blaylock | Tracy Gilbert in LIVING
Image by Sara Blaylock
Barcelona runs - Sarrià-Sant Gervasi
Another suggestion for Barcelona runners looking for new ideas about routes in the city
Jun 16, 2010 by Sara Blaylock in LIVING
Barcelona runs - Horta-Guinardo
Head for the hills with this running route around the district of Horta-Guinardó
Jun 16, 2010 by Sara Blaylock in LIVING
Ryoji Ikeda
Theatre of light and song
Sónar returns this year and the line-up is its usual superior roster of acts but make sure you check out the alternative theatre and music performances
May 28, 2010 by Sara Blaylock in GOING OUT
Barcelona runs - Les Corts
For all you runners out there, discover another area of the city with our route around Les Corts
May 20, 2010 by Sara Blaylock in LIVING
Image by Sara Blaylock
Barcelona runs - Nou Barris
If you're looking for new running routes around the city, take a look at our series featuring circuits in different districts
May 20, 2010 by Sara Blaylock in LIVING
Courtesy Matador Records
Searching for vocals
Sara Blaylock reviews Sonic Youth's Barcelona show
Apr 19, 2010 by Sara Blaylock in GOING OUT
Camille Moulin-Dupré
Mini movies
Mecal is a very big film festival showing very short films
Mar 29, 2010 by Sara Blaylock in GOING OUT
Photo by Sara Blaylock
Major de Sarrià
Continuing our series focusing on Barcelona streets, discover this thoroughfare that is the centre of life in the neighbourhood of Sarrià
Mar 29, 2010 by Sara Blaylock in THE ARCHIVE
Myriad illusions
The complex life of Italian film-maker Federico Fellini is explored at a CaixaForum retrospective
Mar 29, 2010 by Sara Blaylock in GOING OUT
Courtesy Matador Records
The many faces of youth
Sonic Youth's multi-layered sound has seen them through three decades of alternative rock stardom
Mar 26, 2010 by Sara Blaylock in GOING OUT
They've got it
Sara Blaylock reviews the Barcelona gig of US group Yo La Tengo
Mar 22, 2010 by Sara Blaylock in GOING OUT
Ema Kazlauskaite
Speak up–what could you never give up?
As a full smoking ban approaches in Spain, and smokers contemplate whether to give up the cigarettes, we asked nine Barcelona residents what they could never sacrifice
Mar 2, 2010 by Sara Blaylock | Jayne Deacon | Ema Kazlauskaite in THE ARCHIVE