In his enigmatic, unclassifiable and unforgettable book, El Cómputo del ocho (The Computation of eight), the Samoan writer Albert Hanover refers to the Callejón del Gato (the Cat’s Alley) as one of the three essential points of the triangle, in whose heart is inscribed the magical heart of Madrid. Not for nothing, according to legend, [...]

The Museo ABC Centro de Arte/Dibujo/Ilustración of Madrid exhibits, until the 26th of February, the exhibition ‘La elegancia del dibujo. Crónica de Paris de Carlos Sáenz de Tejada’ (‘The elegance of a drawing. Chronicles of Paris by Carlos Sáenz de Tejada’ in English). The exhibition, for the first time represented in Spain, is organized around [...]

Until the 6th of January 2012, on the terrace of La Casa Encendida de Madrid, the exhibition Migration, A moving planet, will be presented. The exhibition organized by the publication Le Monde diplomatique in Spanish, goes into the issue of migrations, by roughly mapping the global reality represented by large human migrations. The exhibition is [...]

Until the 6th of January 2012, on the terrace of La Casa Encendida de Madrid, the exhibition Migration, A moving planet, will be presented. The exhibition organized by the publication Le Monde diplomatique in Spanish, goes into the issue of migrations, by roughly mapping the global reality represented by large human migrations. The exhibition is [...]

On the 27th of December, at the Palacio de Deportes in Madrid, the Spanish singer Christina Rosenvinge will be playing in the first edition of the Fnac Festival Music. Christina Rosenvinge Hepworth, daughter of a Danish father and British mother, was born in Madrid in 1964. Her musical skills appeared in her teens, when she [...]

On Saturday 17th of December, the Red Hot Chili Peppers will play live in concert at the Palacio de los Deportes in Madrid. This event has caused such a stir among their fans that the tickets have been sold out in many points of sale. This american funk rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers formed [...]

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 [...]

Conceptual art is going through a serious crisis today. Nearly all the possible resources of representation, such as platforms, means or formats, have been depleted in an effort to bring contemporary art to a riskier level, to put it somehow. In such a way, there’s little left of what’s conventional in art, and they resort to [...]

Berthe Morisot was born in France in 1841 and died in 1895. She was one of the most important Impressionist painters, not only in France, but worldwide. The artist was born in Bourges in a very wealthy family, and was the precursor  of the art related to women during the late nineteenth century. While being [...]

The Reina Sofía Museum inaugurates on the 10th of November the work of the Valencian artist Soledad Sevilla at the Palacio de Cristal of the Parque del Retiro. The exhibition ‘Written on celestial bodies’ (‘Escrito en los cuerpos celestes’ in Spanish) is an interesting installation of this artist linked to the geometric abstraction that the [...]