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 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 Paris on Jul 13th, 2011
Striptease is an art, a gift is a powerful weapon of seduction. To master its secrets can give us some really delicious moments, a good striptease can power up sex, elevate it and increase the passion of lovers. Clearly, you have to know how to perform it, because it is not about taking off your [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Madrid on Jun 29th, 2011
Now it almost seems as if those years had never existed, but there was a time when a spirit of revolution shook the world. This revolution was soon betrayed by its leaders – people who were revolutionaries because they wanted to give orders rather than receive them, not because they genuinely believed in a world [...]
Posted in Madrid on Jun 14th, 2011
Due to a collaboration agreement signed between the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the promoter of Live Nation, Madrid will enjoy an attractive cultural music and art. Both for the locales and the tourists this is a brilliant news that the city of Madrid is going to hold a macro-again. This summer’s festival will be [...]
Posted in Madrid on May 4th, 2011
Some time just before his death, a magazine asked Marcel Proust to make a list of his eight favourite French paintings at the Louvre. The eclectic list included a Watteau – he couldn’t decide between L´Embarquement and L´Indifferent – a Renoir, Corot’s La Barque de Dante (though he wasn’t sure if La Cathédrale de Chartres [...]
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