SubjectCulture and leisure
![Fotograma del film 'Human Flow' del director Ai Weiwei](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/03-transit-didi-film-01-1100x548.jpg?itok=D9tMKw0-)
It is always possible for anyone, even a "great" artist to address others or represent them visually without viewing them "from on high". This is not the case in Human Flow, the...
![Llibre: Els límits del Quim Porta, de Josep Pedrals](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/06-cultura-llibre-pedrals.jpg?itok=Su20Fv8O)
Els límits del Quim Porta, a book by Josep Perals, is bound to disturb and hypnotise. The whole book breathes poetry, lyrical sonority, ideas, constant revelation of language,...
![Fundació Vila Casas Fundació Vila Casas](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/20.jpg?itok=v1moYYKH)
Lita Cabellut
Anyone who is close to her will tell you that watching her create is a work of art in itself. Her studio is the scene of thousands of creative battles, where paint flows like water and...
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Twenty years after her death, the work of the poet and fiction author who was ‘three times a rebel’ in her own words, is seeing a renewed vitality in the political and cultural...
![Personas alrededor de una parada de libros en la calle](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/drets_autor_llibertat_expressio_bm109_1100x548.jpg?itok=-L--1aY-)
The European Union has tabled a new directive on copyright to harmonize different aspects of the European digital market.
![Portrait of Eva Baltasar](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/evabaltasar.jpg?itok=KX4Tusw2)
Eva Baltasar
She was unjustly obscure until only very recently and that may have been largely due to poetry.
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The change in era we’re currently experiencing is altering many of the values, conceptual schemes and balances upon which post-war Europe was built. The “Ciutat Oberta” (Open City)...
![Hands of people taking pictures of La Gioconda with their cellphones.](https://www.barcelona.cat/metropolis/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/martinparr.jpg?itok=M11U5QWt)
The exhibit A Certain Darkness can be seen until January 5 at the CaixaForum.
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