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London – overview

The Only Team Londoner, Only-Be, Practical Guide to London

London is a city that offers many options as there are personalities. Whether traveling as a couple, with children, alone or with friends, find your place in London. The Best If you like music, I would say that the best place in Europe to enjoy it is London. There are plenty of bars with live music of various styles, but, of course, above all, you have brit-pop. And if you´re looking for instruments, Denmark Street is your street, there you will find guitars that are almost impossible to find in most European cities as well as all kinds of other instruments. Music breathes through the streets of London, to the point that anyone who is playing in metro can leave you in awe. It is also a good place if you´re a musician looking for your opportunity, since due to the wide variety of live music venues, surely, if you´re good, you will get a chance to prove your talent. Family London has a great variety of amusements for the whole family, from Battersea Park Children´s Zoo, a small charming zoo, owned by a lovely family who loves animals to the Barking Park Fireworks, an event that takes place now in November with concerts, activities for the whole family and of course, fireworks. Or a ride on the Ferris wheel, if children are not afraid of heights, a picnic in Hide-Park or an afternoon adventure at Crystal Palace Park, a park full of sculptures of dinosaurs where the smallest can have a ball. There are also many children shows in London, such as Disney on Ice, and... read more

Ice Cream Parlours in New York

Mónica Boixeda Food and Drink in New York, New Yorker, Only-Be

Ice cream is one of those wonderful pleasures that can transform an ordinary day into a treat, a sweltering heat into exotic sugary bliss and a bustling city into an urban adult playground. Here is a list of some of New York City’s most loved and talked about ice cream parlours to help you treat yourself during your visit. Sky Ice Sweet & Savoury serves ice cream with a Thai twist, infusing flavours like sesame, wasabi and lychee into their sweet creamy treats. You can find it on 63 Fifth Ave. Victory Garden makes lactose-free, Middle-Eastern inspired deliciousness with goats milk and local ingredients. Favourite flavours include Salty Caramel, a rich cocoa chocolate, tangy goat milk yogurt and rose hibiscus sorbet. Find it on 31 Carmine Street in the West Village. Holey Cream is a treasure trove of sugary delights, with ice-creams, sorbets and frozen yogurts on offer next to donuts, cookies, muffins and more. Hit these guys up for a ice-cream sandwich made from a iced donut of your choice and an ice-cream centre. To get your fix, go to 796 Ninth Ave between 51st and 52nd. Blue Marble is all about being eco, light on the added sugar and into seasonal flavours. They use certified organic flavour and pride themselves of offering ‘real’ food rather than preservative-packed desserts. Blue Marble can be found at 196 Court Street in Brooklyn. L’ Art de Gelato takes you to the romantic streets of Italy with one lick of their traditional-style ice-cream. With a love of artisanal, daily-fresh batches, this gelaterie can be found at 75 Ninth Ave, inside the... read more

Explosion! Pollock Legacy at the Miró Foundation in Barcelona

Cinta Blanch Barcelonian, Only-Be, Practical Guide to Barcelona

Movement, speed and energy are coming to the Miró Foundation as, together with the Stockholm´s Moderna Museet and sponsored by the BBVA Foundation, they have organized the exhibition ´Explosion! Pollock Legacy at the Miró Foundation´. The exhibition tries to show the influences that Pollock, unconsciously, created through action painting, since it opened a large field of possibilities inside conceptual art and performance. This experimental attitude, where the importance lies in creative art and in the painting that results from this action, was to have a large impact in the 40s and 60s. And so, in this exhibition, not only can you find works by Jackson Pollock, but also from other artists such as Yves Klein, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Allan Kaprow, Andy Warhol, Lynda Benglis, Saburo Murakami, Bruce Nauman, John Baldessari, and Paul McCarthy among others, thus offering a broad view of this 20th century artistic style. Let´s remember though what action painting is and which were the most-used techniques by Pollock. In action painting, the canvas goes on the floor, according to the artist, since the painting cannot be made on the easel because it needs a hard surface, like the floor, so that the artist can walk around the work or even introduce themselves into it (like sand painting in western Indian tribes). The way of painting is with powerful strokes and quick movements, to the point of making it in an automaton-like way. By automatism we understand the dramatic and unstoppable representation of the subconscious, just like the surrealists used to do it. This type of representation is known as abstract exprressionism, from which Jackson Pollock was the main representative, developing a new... read more