An ancient civilization of millions of inhabitants flourished in the Amazon for nearly 1,500 years. Aerial laser scans (LiDAR) conducted in the southwest of this South American region have revealed hundreds of ceremonial centers, road networks, and thousands of geoglyphs hidden in the jungle.
Manuel Jesús Fernández Serrano, artistically known as Manolo Solo, passed away this Thursday at the age of 62, according to a statement from the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain.
The Urban Planning Subcommittee of Barcelona, which includes the Generalitat and the City Council, has definitively approved the urban modification that will allow the rehabilitation, expansion, and conversion of the Palau Marcet —a protected building where the Comèdia cinema was located— into the new Carmen Thyssen Museum.
The event faces its final week with three essential names on the agenda of any music lover. María Becerra, Rubén Blades, and Morrissey headline a luxurious closing that consolidates the festival as one of the great cultural offerings of the summer in Barcelona.
Reading is at its peak. 70% of Spaniards over 14 years old read books. And 66.2% choose them for leisure, according to the latest Reading and Book Buying Habits Barometer in Spain from the Ministry of Culture. An interest that is evident on social media, where content about books has multiplied. The most common format there is now video reviews of new releases, with young adult romance being the most popular genre, with two million mentions on Instagram and TikTok: reviews generated by profiles that do not necessarily belong to literary figures, but to ordinary citizens – generally young women – who share the latest titles that have thrilled them.
“If we consider that Barcino was a city, let’s say, cool, we must consider that Barcino must have had an amphitheater.”
London’s Shakespeare’s Globe has embraced flamenco to reinvent one of William Shakespeare’s most sophisticated comedies, ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ (1598), in a production that combines Elizabethan verse, singing, and dancing with a cast that includes several Spanish artists.
Josep Vallverdú (1923-2026) did not consider himself a specialist in children’s and young adult literature (LIJ), for which he was so recognized, but preferred to speak of “adventure novels.” And although in many cases this was true, what was an adventure was his life, which ended on Tuesday and which is not easy to approach with much perspective given the relevance his figure gained in recent years.
On March 7, 1999, just four days after delivering the final cut of Eyes Wide Shut to Warner, Stanley Kubrick died in his sleep from a myocardial infarction. His sudden death, the decade that had passed since his previous film (Full Metal Jacket, 1987), and the morbid curiosity that Hollywood’s fashionable couple, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, starred in the posthumous film, gave the premiere a certain testamentary aura that exponentially raised expectations. Critics and audiences disagreed. A stroke of genius? A blunder? Or was the message simply not understood? Be that as it may, the film has aged remarkably well, features some memorable scenes, and, above all, contains not one but two succulent parties, two distorting mirrors of the same elite.
For decades, Carmen Burgos-Bosch opened the doors of her apartment in La Pedrera to the curious, architects, scholars, and admirers of Antoni Gaudí. She showed them the undulating ceilings, pointed out details that went unnoticed by others, and shared anecdotes of a life spent among some of the most celebrated forms of modern architecture.
