Posted in barcelona on Nov 7th, 2011
In an old critique of one of their legendary live shows, someone described the Californian Red Hot Chili Peppers – who will present their latest studio album, their tenth in their career, ‘I’m With You’ at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona on the 15th of December of this year – as a band whose [...]
Posted in barcelona on Nov 4th, 2011
The stories tell that storytellers existed with many stories to tell but nobody to listen to them. That’s where, in that precise moment of effervescence and heat that, they, out of a fairytale, and bolder than ever, brought the strength out to pass saliva and enchant us with stories that made us dream, like when [...]
Posted in barcelona on Nov 3rd, 2011
On the 4th and 5th of November, in Vilanova i la Geltrú, very close to Barcelona down the Costa Dorada, the Faraday Independent Music Festival Autumn 2011 takes place, one of the most important ones on the Spanish programme of festivals. Vilanova i la Geltrú is located 48km from the city of Barcelona, and only [...]
Posted in barcelona on Oct 31st, 2011
Eric Sagnier is one of the most important architects not only of the history of Barcelona but of Spain also and, for that reason, his home town has such a special soft spot for him. Most of his creations can be seen in the city where he was born and grew up in. Interesting to [...]
Posted in barcelona on Oct 28th, 2011
The first major retrospective about Joan Miro arrived in Barcelona. Since last spring, the bright colors and exuberant imagination of Joan Miró invaded the Tate Gallery in London. This is the first retrospective exhibition on the great Catalan artist, organized by the famous modern British art gallery in collaboration with the Fundació Joan Miró in [...]
Posted in barcelona on Oct 27th, 2011
Robert Capa is art, photography and history, and all this comes together in a major exhibition that is ongoing at the National Museum of Catalan Art. This is La Maleta Mexicana, a collection of negatives, which Capa abandoned in Paris in 1939, about the Spanish Civil War. The exhibition, curated by Cynthia Young, is co-organized [...]
Posted in barcelona on Oct 26th, 2011
There is always something deeply and fatally disturbing about the idea of a maze. Its power of attraction and fascination is only comparable to things that possess a mystical quality and a presence we feel arriving, an insurmountable danger that could easily destroy the passing which gives access to basic and higher planes of existence [...]
Posted in barcelona on Oct 24th, 2011
The documentary genre has assumed greater importance in recent years. This genre of film is meant to inform and even have a historical accuracy. In the same way, the history of Rock could not be told without some documentaries that bring to the first row, stories of concerts, recordings, formation and disappearance of mythical record [...]
Posted in barcelona on Oct 19th, 2011
On the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York, the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona – CCCB – exhibits the conceptual work ‘Memoria Fragmentada. 11-S NY Artefactos en el hangar 17′, by the Barcelona-born artist Francesc Torres. The exhibition can be visited until November 3rd. The work of [...]
Posted in barcelona on Oct 18th, 2011
From the 21st to 23rd of October, the Center of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona exhibits Circuit Futura. Programme of projections d’ArtFutura 2011 that will feature more than eight hours of audiovisual performance material divided into 10 sections. With these projections, which will last three days, the CCCB seeks to highlight the document production and last [...]
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