Its catalog continues adding titles. This May, new content arrives at CaixaForum, the free online platform of the ”la Caixa” Foundation committed to cultural and scientific dissemination. They are series, podcasts, documentaries, films, digital art, outreach programs, interviews, concerts and operas, and a long list of formats around nine themes: visual and plastic arts, performing arts, music, literature, thought and history, cinema, architecture and design, life sciences and physical sciences.

A total of 25 episodes where different relevant people from the world of culture share their perspectives, impressions and reflections on 25 emblematic works from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection is what Perspectivas proposes, the documentary series that has recently arrived on the platform in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Photography, dance, music, gastronomy, literature, cinema, design and art intersect in an exceptional space through the reflections of great personalities. To begin with, the actor and director Paco León, together with the curatorial assistant of the museum, Marta Blàvia, reveal the secrets of Solo with the wind, time and sound, the impressive work of Anselm Kiefer.

He will be followed by designer Alejandro Gómez Palomo, who, in the company of museum curator Lekha Hileman Waitoller, reveals the secrets of Andy Warhol’s One Hundred and Fifty Multicolored Marilyns and its relationship with fashion and pop art in Andy Warhol ft. Alejandro Gomez Palomo. The filmmaker Leticia Dolera analyzes, together with Manuel Cirauqui, curator of the museum, Yellow Curve I by Ellsworth Kelly, a visual journey through the form and pure color of the work, at Ellsworth Kelly ft. Leticia Dolera. María José Llergo immerses herself in the ephemeral atmosphere, air currents and time with the work Escultura de niebla n.o 08025 (F.O.G) by Fujiko Nakaya, in the company of curator Lucía Agirre, at Fujiko Nakaya ft. Maria Jose Llergo. Film director Isaki Lacuesta delves into Robert Rauschenberg’s vision of the chaos of the world with Barcaza, in the episode Robert Rauschenberg ft. Isaki Lacuesta.

CaixaForum also premieres three documentaries that are very different from each other, but must be viewed. The first part of a date, 1932, and a city, New York. The United States is mired in the Great Depression, the Italian, Irish and Jewish immigrant boom of the past decade has sparked unprecedented urban sprawl, and in the midst of an unusually warm fall, steelworkers are risking their lives building skyscrapers on the Manhattan streets. From this reality an iconic photograph was born: Lunch atop a Skyscraper (Lunch on top of a skyscraper), taken during the construction of the GE building. In it, eleven workers have a carefree lunch on a steel beam. From the snapshot, the director Seán Ó Cualáin tells, between homage and research, the story of the popular photography in Men at Lunch (2012).

Painting is the discipline that occupies the second documentary to be released this May, through the life, philosophy and impact of one of the most influential modernists of the early 20th century. Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible (2019) is not simply a biopic, but highlights the unique impact of Duchamp’s philosophy on art and, more importantly, examines how his revolutionary ideas have shaped the century. XXI and have become the intellectual support of generations of artists.

The documentary on the exceptional human and musical career of the Pau Casals Orchestra, started in 1920 and tragically interrupted by the Civil War, as well as a vision of its conductor, completes the May premieres. Casals was deeply convinced that culture, and music in particular, were essential for the progress of humanity and should reach everyone, regardless of their social position.