Posted in paris on Feb 1st, 2012
Over a century ago Marinetti shook the art world with that wonderful sentence in the Futurist Manifesto in which he decreed that in a race car there was more beauty than in the Victory of Samothrace. This was the apotheosis of the celebration of speed and machines, which museums found art absurd and redundant and [...]
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Posted in paris on Jan 27th, 2012
Until the 26th of February, the exhibition ‘Cézanne et Paris’ will be open at the Musée du Luxembourg. The exhibition is organized with the collaboration of the Petit Palais and the Fine Arts Museum of the City of Paris. it gathers close to 80 works that come from different collections from around the world to [...]
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Posted in paris on Jan 23rd, 2012
A sweet touching and brilliant scene. You struggle to get together mesmerized by the effect of the lighting rig just as if you were witnessing a story out of a fairy tale. Music combined with warm star dust and a strong wave of applause thunders and you shudder and hear the rumble in your ears [...]
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Posted in paris on Jan 19th, 2012
Paris always takes the lead in fashion and it is expressed in every aspect of its inhabitants’ lives. They invented haute couture, nouvelle cuisine, and gourmet restaurants, as well as having imposed an appealing lifestyle and entertainment. For you to know what are the best places in this city we will make an overview so [...]
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Posted in paris on Jan 4th, 2012
They say that dogs are man’s best friend. It has been said many times. But, of course, there are cats. Unlike cats, dogs tend to join and understand us perhaps a little more. It is said that dogs develop greater dependence on their owners than cats. Perhaps this is a mistake. There are cats like [...]
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Posted in paris on Nov 24th, 2011
Until January 8th, 2012 the Masion Européenne de Photographie in Paris exhibits Klein+ Rome, based on photographs taken during the filming of Rome (1972) directed by Federico Fellini. The exhibition curated by Alexandra Mauro seeks to highlight the work of still photography in the twentieth century film work, where great directors met with great photography [...]
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Posted in paris on Nov 22nd, 2011
Despite that the phenomenon began much before, few things probably set the standard better than one of the most characteristic elements of postwar Western societies as the weight loss diets, a perfect mirror where we can see the comes and goings of fashion and the market and its conflictive relation with the increasingly questioned scientific [...]
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Posted in paris on Nov 2nd, 2011
The Smashing Pumpkins are one of the most important bands in terms of alternative music. With Billy Corgan at the front as their born leader, the band had a lot to say and ended up representing the youth of a generation with songs that ended up being anthems. The band was born in Chicago in [...]
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Posted in paris on Oct 18th, 2011
Cutlog is a contemporary art fair which is taking place from the 20th until the 23rd of October in the Paris Stock Exchange, a historical building in the heart of the French capital. For this third edition, once more, Cutlog will gather emerging artists, international galleries and the great public under one theme: being an [...]
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Posted in paris on Oct 10th, 2011
The Ville de Paris Modern Art Museum inaugurates, on the 18th of October, the exhibition ‘Any Ever’ by the North American conceptual artists Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch, where they explore through videos, exhibitions and sculptures the intergenerational relations in the world of cultural consumerism through the absurd. Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch are a [...]
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