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London Walks
London Walks are famous because they allow the tourist to get to see unique spots of London that you couldn´t see from a bus or a car.
Romantic Paris: five tips
One of the greatest cliches of the West, is the identification of Paris with the city of love. The beautiful neo-Gothic tomb of the tragic and calamitous Heloise and Abelard, finally together as if to prove that love, in fact, is stronger than death, in the mythical Père Lachaise cemetery (http://www.pere-lachaise.com /) is perhaps, not the worst possible starting points for a romantic alternative route through the city. At the end of the day, despite being gradually eclipsed over time, because they did not fit with the ideal of the courtly love, imposed with irresistible force through the literature in the years immediately following the death of both (second half of the twelfth century), it was one of the greatest love stories of the Middle Ages in the West and resulted in not only an extraordinary set of goliards songs, but also one of the greatest epistolary correspondence lovemaking of all time. From there you can take the subway, always considered a place of astonishing and haphazard amorous encounters, governed by the laws of underworld, extensive and brilliantly documented by music, literature and film, to go to the Boulevard St-Germain and look closely, attached to the rue de Buci, the small attic that Theodore de Banville furnished to serve as housing for the fugitive and adolescent Rimbaud, as well as his meeting place with Paul Verlaine, a traditional couple of the decadent literature, determined, at least the first of them, to declare that, true life is absent and the consequent need to reinvent love. This same idea of the reinvention of love, might lead us to walk from there...
Christmas Lights in Berlin
Berlin is famous for its light festivals which are part of the Christmas atmosphere and which transform the autumn cold into a warm moment to spend under the spell of the flickering of its lights. Hence that the Berliners go to the streets to see its city, enjoying it at nightfall, despite the cold, when different points of the city light up, highlighting the wonderful historical buildings and every tree where the lights shine. So beautiful is the city in this time of year that many tourism companies have created ´Christmas Light Tours´ for amateur photographers where they take them around lit-up Christmas Berlin to capture and feel the magic of the most picturesque sites in the city and feel the Christmas spirit. As an end of the tour, there´s a voucher for a warm wine to relax the body, feed the spirit, open the appetite for a good dinner and warm the body. Among the most attractive places for their illumination is the Fernsehturm, the TV Tower, which is the tallest construction in Berlin and in the whole of Germany, at 368 metres tall from the base up to the top part of its antena. Just to give a reference of its grandeur, it beats by 65 metres the Eiffel Tower and it´s a few metres shorter than the Ostankino Tower in Moscow. This antenna becomes a lit up spotlight in December that everyone wants to see and capture. Another close-by place which fills up with light and attracts Berliners and tourists alike is the Alexanderplatz Market, a classic in any tour around Berlin for being a traditional...Como Casa Valencia
ComaCasa in Valencia make delicious homemade food recipes to take away at an amazing price.
Porte de Vanves Flea Market Paris
The Porte de Vanves Flea Market is a magnificent Parisian trace right in the city centre.
Amaya Restaurant London
Amaya, with a Michelin star, is one of the best traditional Indian cuisine restaurants in London.
Joan Miró, the ladder of escape, in Barcelona
Miró said “When I paint a painting, I fall in love with it; a love which rises from slow understanding”. This tireless, poetic, relentless, thorough and perfectionist artist, almost obsessive and never satisfied with what he does, changes and changes again. Contradictory although loyal to his search for the authentic. Born in Barcelona in 1893, he was made by his family to work initially in an office, although he dreamt of being a painter. Differently to another of the most international Spanish painters, Picasso, Miró was much more discreet and searched for anonymity. “Anonymity allows you to reach what is universal” he said. The exhibition has been organized together with the Tate Modern in London and the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, and it holds over 150 works by the artist. ´The ladder of escape´ examines his broad career showing his tendency to contemplative isolation and the political commitment of the artist with the dark times he had to live in, to which he obviously wasn´t immune to. In the first rooms there are paintings such as ´Masia´ and ´Paisaje catalán´, which explore the ties with his native Catalonia, especially with Montroig, where his family had a farmhouse. That´s where Miró discovered and began to be aware that he wanted to be a painter, but not only a painter but a Catalan painter. After a first contact with foreign painting, he began with a style a tad ´fauve´ and cubist, but with a tremendous print from his native Catalonia, of the churches and frescos which he came across his country. Before leaving for Paris, he already had the chance to...
Sanja Iveković in New York
A couple of years ago, at a performances festival which took place in Paris, the Croatian artist Sanja Ivekovi?, protagonist of the excellent anthological exhibition ´Sweet Violence´ which can be visited at the MOMA until the 26th of March (http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1148), presented a piece, ´Eva´s Game´, in which she recreated the extremely famous photograph of Julian Wasser taken in 1962 regarding the great anthological exhibition of Marcel Duchamp at the Pasadena Art Museum, which represented the influential and enigmatic French artist, who had allegedly retired decades ago from all artistic production, playing chess with his young friend and future artist and writer Eve Babitz, who facing the ever-smart looking Duchamp, appeared completely naked. Sanja Ivekovi? deconstructed the famous image, a regular practice in her interesting work, recreating the game in a way that it was the woman, herself, who was dressed, in black like Duchamp, while her opponent, the commissioner of the Parisian festival, was completely naked. At the same time that both recreated the game at Pasadena, they recited a dialogue made with the words of an interview given by Eve Babitz herself, whose answers were proffered by Sanja Ivekovi?, placing herself somewhat simultaneously in the place of the two protagonists of the scene, nearly forty years after the original photo. The performance give us many guidelines on the way that Sanja Ivekovi? works with texts and images, as well as the feminist side of her work, always interested to tackle the problem of the role of women in society and in history inside the context of an incisive social and political critic which deals directly with the most controversial subjects of our time...Carla Sozzani Gallery Milan
One of the art galleries in Milan with the biggest reputation is Carla Sozzani´s. Contemporary works by emerging artists.
Bangalore Express London
If you´re in London and you like typical Indian cuisine, one of the best places you can visit is, undoubtedly, Bangalore Express.
