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 [...]
Posted in Madrid on Oct 15th, 2010
Pierre Auguste Renoir is one of the most important French painters and although he belonged to the impressionist school, his style is very difficult to classify. He had his own vision which reflects his personal perspective as well as Impressionism. You can see for yourself this fall at an exhibition, called “Passion for Renoir”, to [...]
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 Madrid on Aug 30th, 2010
It is often said that loosing one sense sharpens the rest as the human body tries to compensate for a deficiency in one of its windows to the outside by empowering others. An easy way to check that this is true involves enjoying a good meal while blindfolded. One’s sense of smell will be enhanced, [...]
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