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Platinum Salon New York

Mónica Boixeda New Yorker, Only-Be, Restaurantes

Platinum Salon has been making new looks in New York since 1978. They have two homes, and one of them is open every day.

Juan Foronda Seville

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Practical Guide to Seville, Sevillian

Juan Foronda has shops spread around the old town of Seville, but the emblematic one is on Calle Sierpes.

Volume! at the MACBA in Barcelona

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

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... read more