The Reina Sofia Museum is putting on an interesting, engaging new cinema cycle, Documental Proletario, between 11th and 19th of May, at the Edificio Sabatini auditorium. The show is commissioned by Jorge Ribalta and part of exhibition Una luz dura, sin compasión. El movimiento de la fotografía obrera, 1926-1939. The show investigates the cinematic documentary [...]
On the 11th and 12th of May, the Department of Audiovisual Communication and Publicity at the Madrid Complutense University is holding the Seminar for the Investigation of Gender, Aesthetics and Audiovisual Culture, at the Sala Naranja at the Faculty of Information Sciences. The seminar hopes to recognise and celebrate the Spanish cinema made by women [...]
It’s amazing the fact that Project Pitchfork was created over 20 years ago, but it is even rarer if we think about the curious conditions of the project’s birth. It was formed in a concert of Girl Under Glass by Peter Spilles and Dirk Scheuber. The story tells that they opened the English dictionary and [...]
From 6-8 May, Madrid will host Expomanga, the famous convention dedicated to manga and Eastern culture. It costs just 4 euros to enter the Palacia de Cristal de la Casa de Campo and discover the best of today’s manga industry. One of the most anticipated events for otaku, or fans of Japanese culture, is the [...]
Until May 8 the Instituto Cervantes and the Embassy of Chile presented the exhibition Don Qui, in honor of the centenary of the birth of the Surrealist painter Roberto Matta, in the Lobby Room of the Instituto. The exhibition is organized around 31 lithographs by Matta, representing the master narrative work by Miguel de Cervantes [...]
The Reina Sofia Museum is showing Económicos by Barcelonian artist Efrén Álvarez until 30th of May, as part of the museum’s Fisuras programme. Fisuras is an experimental project which seeks out spaces not usually considered by artists and the public as exhibition space, but which can be used by the artists creatively. As such, Alvarez [...]
It would be impossible to sum up Roberto Jacoby in just one word, and besides it would be too unfair and short a representation. This sociologist, visual artist, rock lyricist and essayist born in 1944 has become one of the biggest exponents of conceptualism, not only in his native Argentina, but in the whole of [...]
In Spain, when we are sure that somebody has done something specifically to their own advantage, we say “Así se las ponían a Fernando VII.” (“Thats how it was for Fernando VII.”]. The monarch, and famous subject of the remarkable Francisco de Goya portraits on display at the Prado Museum, was an opportunist without scruples [...]
This is another one of the Japanese techniques that connects to our senses, in this case sexual pleasure, although it was not created for this purpose. Shiatsu is an ancient technique of massage therapy, born from Japanese wisdom to keep the body in harmony with the mind. We should consider that for the Japanese our [...]
One of the most creative, inspired artists of recent years, this “character” has come to reinvent alternative pop, and breath new life into it – and though it hasn’t been long, he is already considered one of the greats. Anybody who has heard IAMX’s music, or been to one of the concerts will agree that [...]
