Posted in Barcelona on Apr 2nd, 2012
The American band Dum Dum Girls will perform a concert at Apolo concert hall in Barcelona on the 5th of April. The concert of these attractive girls is part of their promotional tour f or their second album Only in Dreams, which is produced around an excellent compilation of songs composed by Dee Dee. On [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Mar 28th, 2012
On the 30th of March 2012, the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona -better known as the CCCB- will inaugurate a new edition of the BCNmp7 music festival. BCN mp7, as this new and interesting event is called, has become one of the most highly-awaited events in the CCCB programme, which this year has POP [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Mar 26th, 2012
Since the publication of the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, we all know that art, from all times and possible genres, is eminently a dialogue. That artistic expressions, just for the simple fact of existing, engage in constant dialogue and changes between the sender and the receiver, so that even comes to change the meaning of [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Mar 22nd, 2012
Every day, without realizing it, we all watched an infinite number of screens. From the moment we get up, turn off the alarm – look at the time on the phone – check our e-mail and all “social networks” in which we signed – we spent hours watching the screen of our computers – then [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Mar 20th, 2012
Until the 20th of May, the Contemporary Art Museum in Barcelona (MACBA), exhibits ‘Military Series’ by the Russian filmmaker Aleksandr Sokurov, which is made up by three documentary films that are part of the collection fund of the MACBA: ‘Spiritual Voices’ (1995), ‘Soldier’s Dream’ (1995) and ‘Confession’ (1998). This exhibition is part of a collaboration [...]
Posted in Madrid on Mar 14th, 2012
Until the 2nd of April, La Casa Encendida in Madrid is presenting the exhibition ‘A Dutch Landscape’, which explores the influence of the artists of the 1960s and 1970s in today’s art. The exhibition is organized around forty works by 12 Dutch artists that are representatives of a school forged on the changes that took [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Mar 12th, 2012
Barcelona is easily walkable. While the distances appear to be rather long, for some sections, if you have some extra time you can learn about its streets, avenues and buildings. The city remodeling process that took place many years ago, took the first step in modernizing the city, made each block of the city a [...]
Posted in Paris on Mar 8th, 2012
On the 13th of March the exhibition Degas et le nu is opening at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, an exhibition by the great French impressionist artist Edgar Degas. This is the first monographic exhibition after 24 years, the previous one taking place at the Grand Palais in 1988 and, since then, the studies on [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Feb 29th, 2012
Until the 20th of May, MACBA exhibits ‘Centre Internacional de Fotografia de Barcelona, 1978-1893′ (‘International Photography Centre of Barcelona’ in English). THe exhibition commissioned by Jorge Ribalta and Cristina Zelich tries to retrieve the history of the documentary project that gave life to the International Photography Centre of Barcelona. The Spanish photographic heritage isn’t complete if [...]
Posted in Madrid on Feb 23rd, 2012
To take children to the Crystal Palace of the Retiro Park, there is no need to tell them, as usual, that the palace is surrounded by dragons tiles on the bottom of its facade and that they guard the treasure, saved in the building. The name itself is suggestive enough to arouse their curiosity and [...]
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