Posted in madrid on Feb 21st, 2011
The intriguing “Smudge” from photographer Polly Borland was the exhibition to inaugurate new art space Gloria, in central Madrid, right in the middle of Santa Barbara square (Calle Hortaleza 116) next to a nice bookshop and an art and design gallery. Every portrait is turned into an installation. She hides the identities of her subjects, [...]
Posted in madrid on Feb 17th, 2011
From 22nd January, until 12th March, in the auditorium Sabatini at Madrid’s Reina Sofia Art Museum (Calle Santa Isabel 52 / esquina Calle del Hospital), there will be a free screening every Saturday of a series of animated films from Latin America, aimed at adults and children – part of a cycle called Vaivén: Un [...]
Posted in madrid on Feb 1st, 2011
From February 16 to 20 the International Contemporary Art Fair of Madrid will take place. I think that I don’t need to say that this event of A-R-T is a big business. I mean… let’s be realistic. These corporate festivals are nothing but an opportunity for gallerists, artists and entrepreneurs to leverage their networks and [...]
Posted in madrid on Jan 28th, 2011
Gérôme was born in Vesoul in 1824. He is a classic representative of the French academic formalism. His works of clean, perfect lines with a huge technical quality, made Parisian bourgeoisie and aristocracy go crazy for him in the nineteenth-century. They saw art as a mere expression of beauty and perfection to serve the needs [...]
Posted in madrid on Jan 11th, 2011
We are in an age where everybody is very liberal about their sexuality and often times people feel restrained by the thought of a monogamous relationship, only committing to one person and in some cases one gender. As a consequence it seems that the range of alternatives to monogamy has grown. Several non-monogamous but still [...]
Posted in madrid on Dec 1st, 2010
Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman, a Russian mathematician also known as Grisha Perelman (June 13, 1966) is one of the most influential geniuses of our time, although many have begun to think he is loosing his mind, because he has not accepted the many prizes offered by the international mathematical community for his work, including one million [...]
Posted in madrid on Nov 26th, 2010
Many Impressionist artists were obsessed with gardens and natural imagery became a fundamental part of their work. Now thanks to collaboration with the National Gallery in Edinburgh, the Thyssen museum in Madrid will present an exhibition dedicated to botanical landscapes of the French Impressionist painters who lived in the second half of the nineteenth century. [...]
Posted in madrid on Nov 9th, 2010
Derived from the Latin Vacuus, the word Vacuum means empty. A vacuum is a void, and that is exactly what you will face when you get into the world of Vacuum Beds. This extreme and extremely exciting fetish reflects the existential void we all intuit, and, in turn, seeks to fill it. It takes latex [...]
Posted in madrid on Nov 2nd, 2010
M.I.A. is currently one of the most controversial artists of the world music scene. She made headlines when she released a polemical video on YouTube video for the song “Born Free” and was widely criticized in the media. The network took off the video clip off the web site because it showed children killed in [...]
Posted in madrid on Oct 19th, 2010
I’ve always liked the saying “strength in numbers”. In any sphere of life, humans are vulnerable individually, but stronger when they unite. To take an obvious example: the situation of homosexuals in the world. Alone they are often victims of discrimination and abuse of all kinds, but their situation improved markedly when they formed activist [...]
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