“In Barcelona,
there is no need to prepare the revolution, simply because it is always ready.
It leans out of the window on the street every day.” – The city’s civil
governor, 1909

Today’s New York Times
called the exhibition “Barcelona and Modernity:
Gaudí to Dalí,” which is currently on view at the Metropolitan Musem of Art in New York City,
“fascinating.”

In a seventy-one-year period following the
September Revolution of 1868, Barcelona emerged
as the most politically and culturally progressive city in Spain after
undergoing enormous industrial growth. The city became one of the most vibrant
centers of modernist art and architecture in Europe,
as Catalan artists such as Antoni Gaudí, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, and Salvador
Dalí derived inspiration from local traditions while contributing their own
innovations to this international movement.

Yale University Press has published a catalog in association
with the Cleveland Museum of Art to accompany the exhibition, which remains on
display at the Met through June 3.

Click here to read the full review.