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ONLY BE BARCELONIAN
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The French Masters in CaixaForum in Barcelona
The Museo del Prado presented the exhibition ´French Masters of the Clark Collection´ and, after its incredible success due to being visited daily by over four thousand people during its whole exhibition time, it will arrive at CaixaForum in Barcelona, where it will present more than 73 works from the 17th of November until the 12th of February 2012. In the exhibition you´ll be able to enjoy the majority of the most important impressionist artists among which we find Renoir, Monet, Degas, Manet, Morisot, Pisarro, Bonnard, Corot, Gauguin, Sisley, Toulouse-Lautrec and Gerôme among others. The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute is one of the few institutions in the whole planet which not only has an astonishing quantity of works, but which also carries out post-degrees and investigations on visual art. The legacy of the marriage conformed by Sterling and Francine Clark has an incalculable value and its institute is considered as one of the most relevant ones in the whole world. Many students and fans of knowledge go to this prestigious place to learn the best techniques. ´French Masters of the Clark Collection´ is an exhibition which is being presented around the world in the most important museums. As well as having been in the Prado, it was also in the Picasso Museum, where it topped 200,000 visitors, the Palazzo Reale in Milan and in the Giverny Impressionists Museum. After being presented in the CaixaForum in Barcelona until the 12th of February of 2012, it will carry on towards the Kimbell Art Museum in Texas and, after, in the Royal Academy of Arts in London. More information: http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/nuestroscentros/caixaforumbarcelona/impresionistas_es.html CaixaForum:...
La Oreja de Van Gogh in Barcelona
The pop band who has had plenty of success with their previous five albums, will play a concert on the 24th of November in Barcelona at the Teatro Coliseum. The band, who has already sold over 8 million albums from their first album ´Dile al Sol´ until their famous album after that ´El Viaje de Copperpot´, ensure a thrilling concert, combined with the magic that only a theatre as pleasant as the Coliseum can offer. Meanwhile, being one of the most important Spanish bands in the whole country as well as one of the most popular ones on an international level, they expect a significative amount of thousands of people who will attend the only presentation that La Oreja de Van Gogh will play in this theatre. After the exit of Amaia Montero (singer) in 2007, many question marks emerged regarding the direction which the band was going to take. Their separation was one of the biggest questions that their fans were dealing with, while Amaia´s solo music career wasn´t shining notoriously either. All the doubts, however, were put to one side in 2008 when they presented Leire Martínez as their new voice and band front woman, as well as a new promising album called ´A las cinco en el Astoria´, offering the same quality of material that the band was used to giving. The conclusion arrived to the total tranquility of the whole immense legion of fans of this Spanish band. The band´s fans are now at ease with the idea that the band still has a long road to run, together with their new singer. Tickets for the...
World Press Photo at the CCCB in Barcelona
For some unexplainable reason, if you look closely journalism borders on pornography. Some images that are presented in news media have a high level of explicit pornographic content and generate a kind of masturbatory vision of what you see. Thus, the size of the portrait or landscape, or the content of an action in space, is an act that can border on peacefulness or violence which then is called “journalism.” Under the “informative” label photojournalism can be free to expose or criticize that that is possible within its speech or Insight. The question arises from the fictional point of view of what a single photograph generates. We have the recent case of the photo of the couple during a looting after a sports event that ended in a riot. If you recall, the picture shows a man and a woman, both young, probably between 20 and 30 , sharing a lovely kiss while sitting on the ground between fires and police brutality. The result: the perfect image, love can beat everything, “all you need is love ..” and so on. The context of the image, of course, coincided with the encamped protestors in Europe, Syria, and other revolutionary movements, an iconic image, the subject against the machine wins again in a fit of passion bordering on sexual erotic youth. The truth of the picture was revealed soon after. The boy is comforting her partner after she received an unnoticed blow by the police. All the magic of the revolutionary idea dissolved, an online video showed the true picture: the girl is beaten, we hear desperate screams and tears, the...CosmoCaixa Barcelona
CosmoCaixa is a science museum for children, and inside they cana enjoy the permanent and temporary exhibitions as well as the experiments.
Japan: a paradise for pets in barcelona
Japan is such a fascinating society, so, contradictory and full of surprises to Western eyes that it is always interesting to attend different exhibitions that allow us to peek into its mysteries. The Casa Asia (Avenida Diagonal, 373) of Barcelona prepared along with the Japan Foundation and the ABC Museum an interesting exhibition called “Japan, a paradise for pets.” The exhibition uses the word “pet” in a broader sense than usual as we use it in the West, for it refers not only to pets but also to the famous manga and anime models and dolls , pets for major events (Olympics Games , World Fairs) or anthropomorphic personifications of cities, neighborhoods or towns. For example, one of the videos that accompany the exhibition shows a giant stag-headed boy named Seito-kun who represents the city of Nara Heijo-kyo … Or the bizarre fairy called Namisuke with huge and slightly bulging eyes shaped as a teardrop, which was chosen as a symbol by the inhabitants of the Suginami district of Tokyo. Upon entering the exhibition hall a nearly life-size reproduction of one of the characters the Neon Genesis Evangelion welcomes us … Throughout the exhibition halls you will see Pokemon models of different sizes , and other Doreamons characters that are less known in the West. We are witnessing as we go by the exhibition the enormous importance pets have in many levels in Japanese society where curiously even in police stations, posters key chains or local pet merchandise can be found Perhaps the most intriguing installation is the reproduction of a possible Hello Kitty Japanese teen fans room. where...
Volume! at the MACBA in Barcelona
Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art displays an exhibition called Volume! from the 11th of November. A major exhibition that includes all the halls of the MACBA. With these exhibition paradigms MACBA seeks to identify materials that have marked the passage of the XXI century and interpreted through artistic performances that mark the stages of this transit. The exhibition is part of an effort with the MACBA Foundation and Caixa Foundation to promote the new readings to the collection, interrelated issues such as criticism, media, language, poetic experience, including giving support for this reinterpretation of important stage to understand the present. There is nothing worse than the linear interpretation of history, art and performances. Hence Volume! is an essential exhibition to observe the complexity of a period of change, the so-called change of era. The end of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first century was marked by the collapse of real socialism and the installation of neoliberalism, as well as the information society. In that context, the art will reflect, its subject, as in the material and symbolic matters in our society with all its contradictions and new interpretive paradigms of ideologies. In the field of representations there are new technologies, such as sound and video image of the artist and the transient materiality of the work, leaving reflected in the visual media. It may be that the most interesting phenomenon, because there will be a decorative art which will prevail. It will be an ephemeral art that reinforces the symbolism of the moment and that comes from a post-modern ideology, which reinforces the idea of the subjectivity...
Indirect Style in Barcelona
On the 10th of November, Barcelona Fotocolectania Foundation will display an exhibition called indirect style that exhibits photo essays that come together with stories that are related to historical events, told in an indirect way. The sample is a nice search through the stories and photo essay of the past to build a symbolic memory of certain moments. This exhibition is curated by Martí Peran presents the works of David Maljkovic, Chris Mottalini, Adria Julia, Thomas Steinert, Eve Sussman, Jordi Colomer, Javier Peñafiel and Peter Piller. David Maljkovic was born in Rijeka, Croatia in 1973. His work is an architecture that displays images in collages and installations about a traumatic time, as the war in the Balkans. His work focuses on the memory and collective amnesia and its influence in shaping the future. Currently his work is one of the best known in Europe and participated in major exhibitions worldwide. Chris Mottalini was born in Buffalo, Colorado. He studied a Bachelor in News Editing at the University of Colorado and has worked in photography since 2000, building interesting series about the decline of modernity. Among some of its famous series, is the decay of the buildings by architect Paul Rudolph, Dean of Yale University, who was known for its complex spatial designs made in rough concrete with almost brutal textures, which were part of modernist architecture ill-suited to American tastes. Adrià Julià is one of the most interesting Spanish artists of the international art scene. This Catalan artist is based in Los Angeles, California. In his video installations, he builds interesting stories that speak of the colonization projects of...L´Aquàrium in Barcelona
L´Aquàrium is one of Europe´s most important aquariums, with the biggest collection of Mediterranean species in the world.
APIT Tourism Guides in Barcelona
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In-Edit Festival in Barcelona
Until the 6th of November, you can enjoy the ninth edition of Beefeater In-Edit 2011 in Barcelona, or what we know as the International Musical Documentary Film Festival in Barcelona, which this year will delight the crowd with the presentation of 54 documentary films, of which 45 are premieres. Despite this being the ninth Beefeater In-Edit in Barcelona, it´s the festival´s 24th edition around the world, made for the people who enjoy this particular film genre in which great filmmakers have worked, such as Murray Lerner, director of the film ´From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China´, to whom they will pay a deserved tribute. This Festival has given origin to the second edition of the Beefeater In-Edit International Musical Documentary Market, which goes from the 3rd to the 6th of November. In this space created for producers, distributors, programmers and television and film professionals from all over the world. you can find the documentaries which were presented last year at the Beefeater In-Edit Festival and the ones which will premiere in this edition. The screening locations are the same ones as the 2010 edition, among which we find the cinemas Aribau Multisalas Sala 5 and Aribau club Sala 2. Also, the Hotel Pulitzer and the Hotel Regina will be ready for the press meetings. The jury of this contest is formed by Lidia Zimmermann, Juanjo Javierre, Eddie Berg, Brad Adamson and Álex Navarro. In the programme of national premieres of the Official Section, we find the documentary ´Jaime Urrutia: The strength of habits´, which runs for 115 minutes and we se the route of this composer, musician...Promotions
