Jaques Henri Lartigue was not only a outstanding photographer born in Courbevoie in France in 1894, but he was also a painter. The artist moved to Paris when he was only a child. His father, a banker that had a hobby in photography influenced him strongly due to that, at the tender age of 7 [...]
From the 26th of April to 22nd of August, The National Museum Reina Sofia in Madrid holds the photo exhibition “A Tough Light, Without Pity, The Worker-Photography Movement, 1926-1939″. The exhibition explores the debates and documentary practices that gave guidelines to modern visual culture. The Worker-Photography is a pending issue of the twentieth century art; [...]
It’s an everyday thing to see a cyclist on the streets at the mercy of the passing cars. It’s not quite as run of the mill to come across lots of cyclists, together, and protesting for their rights. And it’s really not common at all to find a huge gathering of naked cyclists peddling happily [...]
‘Le nozze di Figaro’ (The Marriage of Figaro) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first opened 1st May, 1786 at Viena’s Burtheater. It was a comic opera of four acts, with the libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. Fronting this latest production is Víctor Pablo Pérez as Musical Director, and Emilio Sagi as Stage Director. Written in Italian, [...]
This is another art movement from Japan that is worth knowing. Some time ago I wrote about the Otaku or anime fans. Today is the turn of Visual Kei, which translated into English, would be “visual style. ” In spite of being recognized as a movement linked to youth music, Visual Kei is not related [...]
Until the 19th of June, the Caixa Forum in Madrid is hosting the first anthology in Spain to be dedicated to French photographer and painter Jacques Henri Lartigue. The show comprises 230 photographs, along with various of his cameras, diaries, canvasses – all borrowed from the Jacques Henri Lartigue Donation in Paris. The exhibition approaches [...]
As every year the appearance of pleasant weather and the bliss that springtime brings, writers, writing workshops, publishers and readers unleash their passion: Books! and they invite us to enjoy this wonderful objet d’art that is the book at the Book Fair of Madrid. The fair will open on the 26th of May and will [...]
Australian group Circa will be performing in Madrid as part of the Autumn Festival at the Circo Price Festival. The group, basing itself on the poetics of the human body, captivates its audience with precise, startling movement and a powerful expressiveness. The director of the ensemble Yaron Lifschitz is an important figure in the world [...]
In Letters to the God of Love by Christine de Pizan (1364-1430), a writer in opposition to the stances on women and love expressed Jean de Meun in the second part of Roman de la Rose (1280), she writes “If women had written books, I am certain that they would have done it differently, because [...]
Technology has been a part of our lives for many years now – even helping us out when the time comes to find a partner: chat rooms, video conferences, Facebook, and Twitter all help us to get to know better the person we’ve decided we want to date. This has meant that the space between [...]
