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Adhoc, Vigo art
At number 9 of rúa Joaquín Loriga de Vigo, there is a space consisting of a ground floor and a basement. The decor changes every three months, mutating from painting the walls to strangers videos projected on white canvas, through paintings, sculptures and what they call 'performances'. For at the number 9 of Joaquín Loriga de Vigo there is Ad Hoc Gallery, with over 20 years behind it loaded with works of art. Inés Ramiro, its directress since 2000, explains that "the way to find artists from Vigo is the same as in other places." Albeit with dossiers sent by Internet or taken by hand by the gallery; by visiting fairs and participating in -
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John Lennon and the eternal Strawberry Fields in Almería
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about Strawberry fields forever John Lennon sang these verses in the garden where he spent his childhood in Liverpool. Did you know that this place where nothing is real and nothing to get hung about was reincarnated more than two decades later, many kilometres to the south in the distant Andalusian city of Almería? This connection through time was actually the detonator that led Lennon to compose one of the most universal songs of the band from Merseyside, Strawberry Fields Forever, originally conceived when the British composer came through the Andalusian city at the end of 1966. The stage was a large house to t -
The other side of museums: Alhóndiga Bilbao
Culture finds different ways of showing its essence. It does so majestically in large museums which for centuries have seen faces passing in front of the canvases, or from the day-to-day activity of places such as AlhóndigaBilbao. This is a cultural and leisure centre that considers its relationship with people from a closer, more enjoyable standpoint, and above all one that is highly innovative and sustainable. The building is a former wine, liquor and oil store that was refurbished by the French designer Philippe Starck and reopened in May 2010. Around the motto of Mens Sana in Corpore Sano, AlhóndigaBilbao has divided its space between three buildings that present -
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Skirts with wheels and flying glasses
Time and space suddenly go on standby for Blanca, a nine-year-old girl visiting the Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum with mum and dad. A sign says that the moving metal structure that has caught the girl’s attention is a work called Remote Control II, created by the Czech artist Jana Sterbak in 1989 and brought into the museum's collection in 1996. But Blanca has not stopped to read this, she already knows what it is: “Mummy look! It is a long skirt with wheels that you can get on”, she concludes after studying the find a second time. “It's missing the cloth of cover your legs, but if you put it on you don't have to walk. And you are taller. Do they se -
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