Exploring the Island and the Guastavino vaulted ceiling. We tend to think of Ellis Island from the American perspective: the immigrant arriving before the the skyline of the new country . But architecture travels too. For those from Barcelona, Valencia, and Naples, those vaults may not have appeared foreign. The materials, the rhythm of the arches and the logic of the construction belonged to an architectural vocabulary with roots much closer to the world they had just left b

A minimal photo essay from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, tracing Rafael Guastavino's Valencian timbrel vaults from La Lonja to nearly 1,000 American buildings.

How Joaquín Rodrigo shaped America’s image of Spain, from the Concierto de Aranjuez to Miles Davis, and transformed a Valencian voice into a transatlantic legacy.

More than 200 works by Joaquín Sorolla will travel from New York’s Hispanic Society to Valencia. Their return reveals the cultural relationship between the two cities and introduces Valencians in New York, a documentary exploring the influence of Sorolla, Guastavino, Blasco Ibáñez and Penella on New York.

Discover how Valencian architect Rafael Guastavino and his son transformed New York through revolutionary tile vaults found in Grand Central Terminal the City Hall subway station St. John the Divine and many other landmarks.

From a rainy Boston cemetery where Chadwick turned a Daniel Chester French sculpture into a symphony, Eduardo Montes-Bradley reflects on translation between the arts — and on Blasco Ibáñez and Sorolla, two friends from Valencia whose page and canvas gave us the true price of fish.

Before Valentino and before Garbo, a writer made in Valencia wrote the stories that launched them. Eduardo Montes-Bradley on Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867–1928) — the man behind The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, friend of Sorolla and Benlliure, who conquered New York in 1919 and helped invent modern mass-media fame.

A drive down the Mediterranean coast to Cullera, and a meeting with Cecilia Rodrigo, daughter of Joaquín Rodrigo — the blind composer who wrote every note of his life's work in Braille. A house of seven-step staircases, a family workshop, and the foundation that gathered a scattered archive under one roof.

A flood nearly killed a city. What grew from the wound is a lesson in what citizens can demand from the places they live.

A meditation on Europa, bullfighting, Bous a la Mar, and the possibility that some myths survive because they are still being performed.