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Mónica Boixeda
The work of Francisco de Goya (1746-1828), who almost unanimously is regarded as one of the most important and influential painters of all time, is inevitably associated with Madrid, where not only some of the most famous painting scenes happened, but also because it remains the largest and most significant part of his work. Since Delacroix It is not unusual the pilgrimage of artists from around the world to the Prado Museum to study the Spanish master in depth, at this prestigious Museum in Madrid, which is little less than a Goya museum itself. This close association with the capital of Spain comes, apart from the astonishing quality of the extraordinary works part of the exhibition Goya. Lights and shadows at CaixaForum Barcelona until the 24th of June(http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/nuestroscentros/caixaforumbarcelona/goya_es.html) as a way to commemorate its tenth anniversary. No wonder the last Goya’s retrospective exhibition of in the city took place nearly 40 years ago. This is also the first of four major exhibitions in close collaboration with the Prado Museum in Madrid, La Caixa plans to organize over the next four years. Although the exhibition doesn’t have the ambition to be exhaustive, because inevitably there will be a number of masterpieces missing, the fact is that with over a hundred pieces carefully selected the exhibition, people can give a quick glance at all the artist´s career, both as extraordinarily rich on topics and issues (self-portraits, portraits and portraits of court with chilling power of psychological insight, daily-routine scenes and festive, historical scenes of large quasi-documentary, disillusioned and bitter reflections, social criticism and allegations of war …) treated in a very...
Mónica Boixeda
In addition to being the name of one of the most influential and less popular bands as part of the explosion of punk-garage-grunge that came out at the end of the 80s and beginning of the 90s from Seattle, Mudhoney is a cult classic film of the genre known as sexploitation from the 60s that was shot in black and white under the direction of the incomparable Russ Meyer in 1965. A satirical story about people from the time of the Great Depression in the U.S., it was freely inspired by a novel by Raymond Friday Locke in which a cast of characters are drawn into a powerful torrent of primitive passions and raw emotions that aspired to provide a graphical representation of love, passion, lust and sadistic violence that is both cleverly caustic and parodic. Interestingly, Norah Jones, who will give a concert at the Royal Theatre Carré in Amsterdamon May 28 (http://www.carre.nl/nl/home), found out about the existence of this film shortly after working with Danger Mouse. He is the producer of her latest new album, Little Broken Hearts, which will be presented on her current tour, and the album Rome, a special tribute, partially composed by Daniele Luppi, to the Italian films of the genre in the 60s and 70s with their magnificent soundtracks with gifted artists such as Ennio Morricone, Piero Umiliani, Bruno Nicolai or Piero Piccioni. It was during the collaboration on this album that Norah Jones and Danger Mouse decided to work together on the next album of the singer fromNew York who was raised amidstTexas country music. With her band The Little...
Mónica Boixeda
Once again Barcelona will be the place of one of the most important and influential international festivals for advanced music and multimedia art for 3 entire days. As it is already a tradition, there will be artists from the world of electronic music and those who like to mix it up with other genres. At Sónar you will have the chance to listen both, artists with worldwide fame as well as emerging talents. Only-apartments invites you to participate in a contest to win your ticket for the Sónar 2012. All you have to do is vote for one of the 10 artists listed below that will perform at the festival and leave a comment. Among all participants, we will give away 3 tickets for Sónar Night on June 16th 2012. The draw will take place on June 4th 2012. Good luck!!! 1) VOTE 2) LEAVE A COMMENT and YOUR CONTACT DETAILS [poll...
Nancy Guzman
Madrid is a city that has ideal locations for a movie and has been used repeatedly to shoot internationally famous Hollywood movies. For you to pay attention at each corner or place the movie stars have stepped in, we´ll tell you what movies were shot in this city. At la Puerta de Alcala, some scenes from the film Spartacus by Stanley Kubrick, produced in 1960 and starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, John Gavin, Jean Simmons and Tony Curtis were recorded. The film was about the rebel and humanist slave who embodied the handsome and stalwart Douglas. This film won four Oscars and remained in theaters for long. Doctor Zhivago was a film adaptation of the novel written by Boris Pasternak in 1965. Directed by David Lean and starring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie and Geraldine Chaplin. It was recorded mainly in Madrid, though is set in Moscow. The film’s scenes, which are supposedly in Moscow, were recorded on Silvano Street, close to Canillas cemetery, which in those days was an empty lot, in which 20 million square feet of scenery that recreated the Russian capital were built, including trams provided by the Municipal Transport Company. Another area where scenes were filmed was the Delicias station. There is a humorous story that describes a scene when the Bolsheviks marched chanting through the streets of Madrid and many locals who didn’t know that a movie was being filmed, thought that Franco had overthrown and went to the streets to celebrate, so the general ordered the secret police to watch the filming. The writer Slavoj Zizek mentions this fun political mistake in...
Mónica Boixeda
Primavera Sound has returned to Barcelona. This time it has a poster even more interesting and daring than last year. And this 2012 Primavera is committed to sounds that are heavier and more experimental than other times, with bands like Godflesh, Napalm Death, Sleep and Mayhem. Is the audience at Primavera leaving behind hipster pretenses and turning to harder music? Does it mark the end of modernity? Far from it. One possible explanation is that the impact of some of the heavy metal bands that will be at the festival have been so important to the development of independent music in general that leaving them out would be neglecting what has been happening for the last 20 years. Some say that many of the most influential bands today, such as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Pelican and Neurosis, with their experimental music that trends toward heavy metal have renewed this genre and converted it into post rock or post metal. Two groups will make important returns to the stage this year. One is the enigmatic Codeine, a pioneering American slowcore band. With slow cadences and whispering voices, Codeine preceded the post rock scene, and especially bands like Tortoise, Do Make Say Think and Mogwai. In a similar vein and drone, the impressiveMain, with Robert Hampson at the controls, will also be present. This important English musician was the lead guitar and vocals of the legendary psychedelic bandLoop.Mainstood out in the 90s for his cold, experimental sound, which was layered and had an intense atmosphere with hypnotic, repetitive rhythms. The funny thing is that if we watch the video promotion for...
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