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Spadazzi Pharmacy Rome

Aina Solé Only-Be, Practical Guide of Rome, Roman

Spadazzi is an Italian pharmacy and, if you´re in Rome, you don´t have to worry about the time because it´s open all day.

From Leonardo to Levine Caricature and satire

Mónica Boixeda New Yorker, Only-Be

An exhibition of drawings and engravings of satires and caricatures made by famous artists from the Renaissance to our days. This exhibition can be visited from now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The works on display are part of the work of painters, famous artists and writers of their respective times, and indeed of all times, since we are talking about the greatest, among them: Leonardo Da Vinci, Goya, Delacroix, Enrique Chagoya and Toulouse-Lautrec, whom among many others who devoted part of their work to humor and satirizing political, religious personages of these and other fields. Cartoon work of these renowned artists, was born perhaps with Leonardo Da Vinci, but cartoons have always existed from long before Leonardo´s sketches, and have been seen as an exaggeration of certain physical characteristics, such as an exaggerate appearance and a twisted body language to express in a grotesque way the political or social character or person who is drawn. Thus, the Metropolitan Museum has collected a large number of these works, many never exhibited before in any museum, making this exhibition unique and which started on September 13th and ends just past March 4th, 2012. In addition to the acclaimed artists mentioned, the exhibition includes part of another group of famous cartoon artists such as Thomas Rowlandson, James Gillray, Honoré Daumier, Al Hirschfeld and David Levine, the latter a contemporary artist known for his work as an humorous illustrator for the “New York Review of Books” and is considered by many as the best cartoonist of the second half of the twentieth century. The exhibition entitled “Infinite Jest:... read more

Joseph Beuys in Berlin

Mónica Boixeda Berliner, Only-Be

The choice of museums in Berlin is so overwhelming that we who live in other cities in the world cannot avoid feeling a certain amount of envy. The city is not content with having a whole island of museums: it also has a wide variety of high quality exhibition spaces scattered around other parts of the city. One of these is the Hamburger Bahnhof, a modern art centre which displays a plethora of art forms that have emerged in recent decades, as well as a selection of top new artists. The history of the Hamburger Bahnhof (literally the Hamburg Train Station) is tied to the vicissitudes of this great city. Originally designed to give shelter to travellers on the Berlin-Hamburg line, it then became a railway museum. It was abandoned to its fate during the Cold War years, but then, around ten years ago, the building was renovated and it has been open to the public as a centre for contemporary art ever since. The centre has played host to a range of events including meetings, concerts, conferences and lectures. Some of the most unique artists of the twentieth century come together in this place. To give you an idea of the kind of exhibitions that Hamburger Bahnhof specialises in, take a look at this one, on display until January 1, 2012, dedicated to the German artist, Joseph Beuys (1921-1986). Beuys was one of the main representatives of the avant-garde group, Fluxus, a movement that combined visual poetry with performances, installations and the innovative musical ideas (based on silence and Eastern rhythms) of the American John Cage (1912-1992). The exhibition, entitled 8 days in Japan and... read more