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Gustorganics in New York

Mónica Boixeda New Yorker, Only-Be, Restaurantes

Gustorganics is the first organic restaurant chain with home delivery in New York.

The Museum of Modern Art of New York, also known as MOMA, is probably the museum which has set the pace for many years regarding the organization of an art museum in the 20th century. The origins of the museum date from the 1920s and they articulate, of course, from personal collections, investments, the Rockafeller surname somewhere in there, and a very long etcetera. Among them, fundamental exhibitions like one of Van Gogh and Picasso which would catapult them both to what they are now: icons of modern art, above their real talent and great work, the MOMA turned them into posters, postcards, paintings for the bathroom, towels, soaps, etc. What´s true is that for many years, even until today, the importance of MOMA hasn´t dissolved and that´s because of the invaluable quality of its collection, with very important works of suprematism, cubism, surrealism and dadaism among others, as well as key works of impressionism and expressionism from the end of the 20th century. We also consider that in a visit to the MOMA you can find designs by Bauhaus, architectural models, an unbelievable library and a cute café at the top. But how much of all of this actually intervenes in today´s contemporary art? The MOMA institution keeps on redefining itself and putting on the table the best of its collection. Of course there´s also the PS-1, a space which also belongs to MOMA, but dedicated to contemporary art from the 1950s until today. It seems that, in Europe, the economic recession has brought unemployment, hunger, racism, classism and violence all around it, as well as a great... read more

Aleksandr Rodčenko in Rome

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Roman

On the 11th of October, the Palazzo delle Esposizione in Rome inaugurates the exhibition by the Russian artist Aleksandr Rod?enko, a stand out member of the avant-garde from the beginning of the 20th century and an influent member of the intellectuality of his time. The exhibition commissioned by Olga Sviblova is organized by the Moscow House of Photography Museum and it tries to show the importance that the Russian avant-garde had in the universal culture through the creative energy which is fully reflected in the work of Aleksandr Rod?enko. The importance that the Russian avant-garde had in universal art can be traced to our days, where we still find certain aspects of suprematism which Malevich funds in an attempt to reduce painting to the simplest lines. Futurism is, up to today, part of the artistic expressions or the constructivism which primed in architecture and it inspired contemporary desconstructive architecture with its straight lines. Aleksandr Rod?enko was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1891. Son of the designer and scenographer Mikhail Majlovich Rod?enko and a washerwoman, he followed his father´s footsteps by studying in the Art Institute in the city of Kazan. These were years of great movement in arts and philosophy, and he initially got interested in poetry after reading Mayakovsky and admiring his revolutionary strength, his internationalism, his futurist creation and the deep love for freedom that took him to defy totalitarian power. Through Mayakovsky he got into futurism and suprematism, which would be marked in his early paintings. Restless to get to know all the new techniques, he took an interest for photomontage and dadaism due to their groundbreaking character with... read more