Manos a la obra: compilación de artículos periodísticos publicados en Horizontes del Bibliotecario

La portalada del monestir de santa Maria de Ripoll és, indiscutiblement, un dels monuments romànics més importants de Catalunya i de tota Europa. Això s’ha traduït, al llarg del temps, en una llarga sèrie de treballs científics, així com d’accions de conservació-restauració, que són testimonis del reconeixement dels seus valors patrimonials i fins i tot identitaris. La portalada de Ripoll. Creació, conservació i recuperació agrupa una vintena de treballs científics de diferents autors, que troben el seu origen en el simposi internacional homònim celebrat a Ripoll l’any...

Argentine painter Guillermo Kuitca, born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, is widely considered one of the most important contemporary artists in South America. Architecture, theater, music and cartography play a central role in his work, where maps and blueprints are condensed into a world of poetic and territorial fantasies, and reality and fiction overlap. Whether depicting an "Acoustic Mass" at the Old Vic or a constellation map of "Heaven," in each painting or drawing collected here, Kuitca measures the world anew, shedding light on complex spatial contexts and intertwined social processes. This...

Housed in the former 16th-century convent of Santo Domingo church, now the Regional Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico, is an important collection of textiles representing the area’s indigenous cultures. The collection includes a wealth of exquisitely made traditional weavings, many that are now considered rare. The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditions of Oaxaca details a joint project of the Getty Conservation Institute and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico to conserve the collection and to document current use of textile traditions in daily life and...

While on vacation in Lisboa, Nico and Marga travel the high seas to find their friends who have disappeared.