From the 5th of October, at the Sabatini building in the Reina Sofía Museum, you’ll be able to visit the exhibition of the great Italian artist Alighiero Boetti. The exhibition is called ‘Game Strategy’ and it will remain open to the public until February 5th 2012. Considered an artist close to arte Povera, Alighieri Boetti [...]
Until the 9th of January 2012, the National Museum Centre of Art Reina Sofía in Madrid exhibits the work of the Austrian artist Andreas Fogarasi, in the frame of their programme ‘Fisuras’. Fogarasi is one of the young Austrian prospects with the biggest projection, whose work is focused in the investigation of the entities which [...]
Every month, two bizarre groups of people, separately, walk the fifty-odd kilometres that separate the city of Madrid from the location of San Lorenzo del Escorial, motivated by the hop of witnessing two different types of star manifestations among the fans of the publications that are about the so called paranormal phenomenons. One of them [...]
In the nineteenth-century, literary cafés proliferated throughout the great cities of Europe. Sitting at their tables, wreathed in tobacco smoke, and with the sent of coffee and absinth in their nostrils, some of the most creative people of the age worked on novels, poems or even political manifestos. In Spain, the hotbed for these types [...]
If every single day of the calendar year a different thing is celebrated, why not have a day to commemorate free choice? The problem is though, who to celebrate it with? With my girlfriend or with my boyfriend? For all those who don’t discriminate when it comes to matters of gender, since 1999, the 23rd [...]
They are called the black paintings, a group of 14 masterpieces by Goya painted between 1819 and 1823, on the then walls of his house, “La Quinta del Sordo”. Each of these masterpieces, contains a mystery to this day, that has not been totally discovered by the great scholars of the art of Goya. The [...]
It is said that on one occasion Jean Cocteau and Salvador Dalí, two of the most important and dazzling artistic figures of the twentieth century just to mention two obvious and worthy representatives, although in more than one way antithetical in the world we call dandyism, gave a press conference together in Madrid after visiting [...]
Don Quixote by Cervantes is widely known as the greatest work of Spanish literature of all time, and has been translated into all known languages. Published for the first time in 1605, it was met with high controversy as it broke away from all the basic, strict rules which had previously defined literature. Miguel de [...]
Don Quixote by Cervantes is widely known as the greatest work of Spanish literature of all time, and has been translated into all known languages. Published for the first time in 1605, it was met with high controversy as it broke away from all the basic, strict rules which had previously defined literature. Miguel de [...]
Chance may have wanted that the exhibition that, that until the next 25th of September the Museum of El Prado presents under the name ROMA, Nature and Ideal, (http://www.museodelprado.es/exposiciones/info/en-el-museo/roma-naturaleza-e-ideal/) to actually be a very recommendable complement to the Roman engravings of Piranesi, exhibited at the same time in the Historic Library of the Complutense University. If [...]
