Archive for September, 2010

Massive Attack comes to Spain

Massive Attack, seminal band in establishing trip-hop as a favourite genre of everyone from melancholic high school girls to music freaks who love the hip-hop era update of the sultry emotional spectacle that was cabaret will be in Madrid for a much anticipated concert. Massive Attack was born in 1988 in Bristol, England, and became [...]

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Works by Asher B. Durand, one of the most important US landscape painters, to be exhibited in Spain

A few centuries ago intercontinental travel was not as common as today. The journey could be done only through a long trip by boat and that is why it generated so much interest by great thinkers, writers, painters and artists of the time. Asher B. Durand, who was born in New Jersey in [...]

Monday, September 20th, 2010

The Michel Soskine gallery will present unpublished photos by Humberto Rivas

Rare vintage black and white photographs  by Humberto Rivas will be exhibited in the Michel Soskine gallery in Madrid.  Rivas was born in Buenos Aires and died in Barcelona in 2009. The selection of 20 silver gelatine prints has never before been exhibited to the public, and they embark the various fields which attracted [...]

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Fetterati, a place to desire and be desired – Part 2

Recently we spoke of a small exclusive club called Fetterati in Madrid which is specialized in providing an intimate, friendly environment in which to realize the wildest erotic fantasies … This space is available both for private rentals or  to attend one of their parties and private events related to fetishism and BDSM. To reserve [...]

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Juan Correa show at the Marlborough Gallery in Madrid

After the success of the first show in 2008, the artist Juan Correa, who was born in Madrid in 1959 and now lives between Madrid and Segovia, will present his new work in an exhibition at Marlborough gallery starting September 16th.  The show features more than a dozen abstract works that were painted using tempera [...]

Friday, September 10th, 2010

New Realism: 1957-1962- Strategies of the object, between the readymade and entertainment

The second half of the twentieth century was for art and above all for artistic painting a period of enormous and fundamental changes. The early 60s’ marked a radical change of discourse. Under the title “New Realism. 1957-62. Strategies of the object, between readymade and entertainment” the Reina Sofia seeks to examine this [...]

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

Fetterati, a place to desire and be desired – Part 1

Everyone has erotic sexual fantasies, but it is amazing how many people repress them or don’t put them into practice because they don’t feel they can become reality. Fortunately, there are associations and select places that have specialized in encouraging people to make their fantasies reality by providing the necessary infrastructure and the final push [...]

Monday, September 6th, 2010

The last Palazuelo

Those who delight in contemporary drawing would be wise to check out the Cayon Gallery Madrid in Madrid, where they will usher fall in on September 16 with the presentation of the exhibition “The last Palazuelo” which presents more than 50 new works of Paul Palazuelo. Now, you might be wondering why these works have [...]

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Expo Mario Testino in Madrid

Mario Testino was born in 1954 in Lima, Peru, but in ’76 he moved to London where he continues to live, making books and portfolios for girls who wanted to be models. Little by little the artist discovered the world of fashion and began to become an in photographer. Fashion has not been the sole [...]

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010