Archive for August, 2011

Walead Beshty in Madrid

The 2 de Mayo Art Centre in Madrid is showing Un Diagrama de Fuerzas, an exhibition of the work of British artist Walead Beshty, until the 2nd of October. The exhibition was curated by Ferrán Barenblit and Jacobo Fabricius, and retraces ten years of the artist’s career, with a selection of his work, which uses [...]

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

En Vivo Festival Madrid

Mago de Oz, Bad Manners, Los Suaves, The Specials, The Toy Dolls, Offpring, Sober, SFDK are just some of the bands that will be in the new edition of ‘En Vivo Festival’, which has already sold over 45,000 tickets, a total record taking into account that, on the busiest day of last year’s edition, they [...]

Tuesday, August 30th, 2011

Google Transit

When one goes on holiday they have to take various things into account, for example to take light luggage and have some hotels booked, do the list of the interesting places to visit, etc. But it’s also important to have the maps of the city. Today, with the advance of technology, the paper maps are [...]

Monday, August 29th, 2011

International Fashion Salon in Madrid

The secret to fashion is diversification; the constant change from month to month, living and breathing it continuously. In terms of the different possibilities that fashion has to offer, it is probably the urban space which best demonstrates the new trends and styles, the ways of using dressing to express attitude, change and new identities. [...]

Friday, August 26th, 2011

James Castle and his marginal art in Madrid

If all music has a certain architectural component, and a strange capacity to create the space in which it appears, then it might also be said that mythical bluesmen such as Robert Johnson, Skip James and Blind Willie Johnson did something more than just compose the defining sounds of the region of the Delta of [...]

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

What is Spanish Revolution?

These days there has been a lot of talk about the Spanish Revolution, about time of change and revolutions, in all latitudes, the people are uniting to say “no” to the system, enough of neoliberalism and abuse. At first, all of this seemed to have an air of nostalgia and impossibility, of not having clear [...]

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

Connections 01 in the Madrid ABC Museum

An interesting exhibition of the artist Santiago Morilla Museum is exposed at the ABC Drawing and Illustration museum  in Madrid, which runs until September 18th . The exhibition is part of the program that the museum develops with artists linked to drawing and illustration and also exposing works based on the other works from the [...]

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

Parties in 1980s Madrid

You can almost be certain that very few 40-somethings have not been to one of today’s “80′s parties”. It’s a phenomena of the desire of any generation to relive their 20s, and the heyday of youth and parties, and all the music that went along with it. It’s the same with fashion; sometimes styles from [...]

Wednesday, August 17th, 2011

Magic at the Madrid National Library

The ghost remains of the notorious story of the transformation of young watch-fixer Robert-Houdin into what is probably still today the most famous and prestigious magician of all time. Not least because of his incredible “return to life” in the wagon of an old traveling magician, after he had suffered an accidental metal poisoning. In [...]

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

Inéditos at La Casa Encendida in Madrid

On until the 11th of September at the Casa Encendida de Obra Social Caja Madrid is an exhibition of the three work of the three winners of this year’s edition of “Inéditos” – a competition which aims to give a voice to up and coming young creatives. Whilst this exhibition is reason enough to visit, [...]

Friday, August 12th, 2011