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Yves Saint Laurent in Madrid

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 [...]

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San Ginés Chocolaterie Madrid

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Memory Fragments. Elena Asíns in Madrid

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 [...]

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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, [...]

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Roman Landscapes at the Prado Museum

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, [...]

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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, [...]

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Giambattista Piranesi in Madrid

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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The mysterious Fayum portraits

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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