A well kept treasure of tremendous historic, artistic and cultural value in Madrid, one of the most precious legacies the great Francisco de Goya gave to the city, I’m talking about the frescoes of San Antonio de la Florida’s Church that the famous painter made in honor of the Portuguese saint. The history of the [...]
There are quite a few in Madrid who like to go down to the bar to enjoy their football team’s ups and downs, finding in this practice some sort of a substitute for the experience lived in stadiums. Out of the immense offering for it, the traditional Cervecería Ferreras (on the corner of Bravo Murillo [...]
Until the 8th of January, the MAPFRE Foundation in Madrid presents the exhibition on the designer Yves Saint Laurent. The exhibition is a retrospective on the great designer who revolutionised fashion during the 20th century, and whose name is associated with elegance and good taste. However, his work went much further. The exhibition was presented [...]
Photography has always been an art that, depending on where you look, it can be a little indiscreet. What does this mean? There are cases where voyeurism comes into play. The evolution of photography saw great artists of this “unusual” style appear. That is why the Fundación Canal, located in Madrid, presents “Observed. Voyeurism and [...]
A complement and contrast to recent exhibitions around the creation and development of the genre of landscape painting and the Piranesi views of Rome, through the extraordinary and disturbing exhibit that under the name “Painted Architecture” is housed until the 22nd of Jan at the Thyssen-Bornemisza (http://www.museothyssen.org/thyssen/home) museum and Exhibition Hall of the Fundación Caja [...]
In the second film by Pedro Almodóvar, the crazy, hilarious and delightful comedy Labyrinth of Passion (1982), the protagonist, heir to the imperial throne of the imaginary country of Tiran, waives his rights of succession and flees the country attracted by the irresistible songs siren of the nightlife of Madrid, which is presented as the [...]
An ancient Greek proverb says that a wise man is one who can have fun without spending money. Epicurus argued that the reason for our unhappiness lies in our tendency to confuse what we want with what we really need to do to be happy, and the latter reduced it to three basic ingredients: spend [...]
Once upon a time, a label called Creation Records. Mom, what was Creation Records? Simple, simple answer. Creation Records was the label that catapulted some of the most important bands of the mid 80′s to 90′s and beyond. Was Creation Records who discovered the brothers Jim and William Reid, also known as The Jesus and [...]
First it was Amman, then Beirut, and now it’s the turn of Madrid and Bordeaux, who in a parallel way present ‘GráfiKa’, an itinerant exhibition on urban art which will visit the centres that the Instituto Cervantes has spread all over the five continents. So, from the 7th of October until the 15th of January, [...]
During the Vogue Fashion Night Out 2011 ‘shopping night’ which took place last September in Madrid, there was a specific event which turned out to be especially torrid and erotic, although without distancing itself from the idea of glamour and good taste which Vogue always promotes. It was in the erotic luxury shop ‘Lily Blossom’, [...]
