Posted in madrid on Oct 21st, 2011
Yves Saint Laurent is one of the most important worldwide fashion designers and his brand, an icon of the avant-garde, YSL has locations in every corner of the planet and women go crazy for the high couture garments he fabricates . This time the MAPFRE Foundation, along with the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, will [...]
Posted in madrid on Oct 20th, 2011
You’ll hardly find any other real food which has so many stories, which is scented with so many alleged qualities, that arouses similar levels of passion in all ages like chocolate does. Since the Spanish, chocolate’s introducers to Europe, found out about in in America through pre-columbine cultures like the Aztecs and the Mayans, chocolate [...]
Posted in madrid on Oct 5th, 2011
The rehearsals for the premiere of ‘The tea is Ready!’ or ‘Veinticinco años menos un día’ (Twenty five years minus a day), the latest comedy by Antonio Álamo, have already begun. It will be on the bill from the 17th of September until the 13th of November, which is, around two months. The County Council [...]
Posted in madrid on Aug 22nd, 2011
The Reina Sofía Museum exhibits the unique work by Elena Asíns, Memory Fragments, which will be open until October 31st. The provoking title submerges the spectator in linguistics, philosophy, music and mathematics to observe the creation process that the computers and the human mind manage to build. The exhibition, commissioned by the director of the [...]
Posted in madrid on Aug 19th, 2011
It’s a well-known fact that when people want to talk about sex-related things, they tend to employ a whole new invented, not-so politically correct vocabulary. These are words have been used so much, and for such a long time, that they have practically become the official representation of what they describe and for this reason, [...]
Posted in madrid on Aug 9th, 2011
Rome has been the subject of thousands of works. It is a place which, not just today, but throughout entire history, has inspired artists, who have expressed their love for the Italian city through their art work. It was also in Rome that a completely new genre was born, which went on to be adopted, [...]
Posted in madrid on Jul 28th, 2011
Until the 11th of September, the ICO Foundation is showing “The Power of Doubt,” a collection of specially created photographic installations. The ICO Collections Museum, centred around contemporary art, in particular photography and architecture, has devised this exhibition in order to showcase a new global vanguard, different to that which arose during the Cold War, [...]
Posted in madrid on Jul 27th, 2011
Until the end of the world from 1991 is probably the last greatest film by Wim Wenders. It failed perhaps in more ways than one being seriously crippled by the production company with a view to a commercial exhibition, but yet retains that special, indefinable lyricism, a characteristic of the best creations of the German [...]
Posted in madrid on Jul 21st, 2011
According to legend, by the first third of the thirteenth century San Antonio-called doctor Gospel because of his great eloquence, the ark of wills, on account of his thorough knowledge of the Christians scriptures that are said to be sacred and holy worldwide, for the universality of their fame, had to temporarily stop his preaching [...]
Posted in madrid on Jul 11th, 2011
By 1877 the infamous Austrian collector von Theodor Graf was involuntary the cause of the total revolution in the world of arts and contemporary sensibility, when he introduced in Europe and America, a series of portraits of Roman Egypt made between the first and fourth centuries of Christian era. They were fine paintings made on [...]
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