Posted in Paris on Sep 30th, 2010
Gabriel Orozco is a multidisciplinary artist who was born in Jalapa, Mexico in 1962. He attended the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City and the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. After his education he travelled a lot and spent time living in places such as [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Sep 29th, 2010
Fields of the Nephilim is undoubtedly one of the most important and influential bands in the world of gothic rock and this year we are fortunate to have them in Spain twice, with concerts in both Madrid and Barcelona. The band’s sound is characterized by elongated guitar sounds, and the often ethereal, desperate and low [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Sep 28th, 2010
Gil J. Wolman, considered a pioneer in investigating the possibilities and intersections of visual and textual languages, will be honoured in a retrospective presenting 250 works and documents in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona in what will be the first major retrospective to be devoted to him in Spain. Bartomeu Marí, director of [...]
Posted in Madrid on Sep 27th, 2010
The band the Drums was born in 2008 in Brooklyn, New York, and released their first self-titled album in June this year. The most curious of all is that the band became famous in a truly remarkable fashion with the presentation of a single called “Let’s Go Surfing It catapulted them onto the world scene [...]
Posted in Madrid on Sep 23rd, 2010
Madrid has many galleries along its historic streets, but not all can be proud of their 25 years of experience dealing with the international art market. Oliva Arauna Gallery is one of the few, and throughout October they will be celebrating their anniversary with different presentations. It opened its doors for the first time in [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Sep 22nd, 2010
“Jewel of the artist. From Modernism to the early avant-garde” is the name of the new show at the National Museum of Catalan Art (MNAC which will run from October 26 until February 13, 2011. Mariàngels Fondevila, curator of the exhibition as well as the Modern Art Collection at large at MNAC has said that [...]
Posted in Paris on Sep 21st, 2010
In 1963, psychologist Stanley Milgram from the American University of Yale, conducted a series of social psychology experiments to determine how participants would react to a series of orders that clash with their ethics. Milgram felt curiosity for the excuses given by many Nazis in the Nuremberg trials that they were “just following orders.” The [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Sep 20th, 2010
Labyrinths have been used as metaphors in film and literature for quite some time. The idea of being lost and unable to find the exit was an adventure that many heroes throughout history have had to overcome, and inspiration for intellectual investigation by writers like Jorge Luis Borges. This time the Centre for Contemporary Culture [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Sep 17th, 2010
Barcelona again brings together the most famous artists in the world in the convention centre La Farga in L `Hospitalet. This year, the 13th edition of the Barcelona Tattoo Expo promises to be a happening that you can’t afford to miss. It is packed with entertainment, music, exhibits, a Pin-Up pageant, and fabulous tattoo artists [...]
Posted in Paris on Sep 16th, 2010
Recently I mentioned that fans of fetishism and alternative sexualities who wish to attend parties full of glamour and fantasy must go to Paris during the first week of December, to celebrate the three largest fetish parties in France: the “Nuit Demonia”, the “Cosy Party” and “Croisière elastique.” In “Nuit Demonia” held on Thursday 9, [...]
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