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LATEST ARTICLES ( 166 )

• Interview with Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Laureate

  

  Autor: Elena Cué Mario Vargas Llosa. Photo by Elena Cué On the occasion of the Madrid Book Fair, Mario Vargas Llosa talks about his latest publication, "The Cal... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Paula Rego

  

  Author: Elena Cué Literary sources, poetry, music, folk stories, Salazar's repressive regime and the vulnerability of women in a hostile world are just some of... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2018 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Marina Abramovic

  

  Author: Elena Cué Marina Abramovic. Photo: David Leyes Marina Abramovic (Belgrade, 1946) is one of the greatest representatives of performance art today. Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2018 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Luc Ferry

  

  Author: Elena Cué Luc Ferry One morning in Paris, I meet with one of the great French intellectuals, philosopher and Minister of Education during the years of... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2018 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• And If Venice Dies?

  

  Author: Marina Valcárcel Art Historian Grand Canal, Venice Classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987, Venice now finds itself at death's door, not... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2018 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Bernini's Rome: For Love Of The Eternal City

  

  Author: Marina Valcárcel Art Historian The Rape Of Proserpina (detail), 1621-22, Borghese Gallery, Rome The ending of Paolo Sorrentino's film The Great Beauty i... Read more

  Posted on 04 August 2018 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving

  

  Author: Marina Valcárcel Art Historian In 2004, 50 years after Frida Kahlo's death (Mexico 1907-1954), thousands of her personal belongings and artefacts saw th... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2018 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• But Just Who Are the Jewish People?

  

  Contributor: Dr. Diego Sánchez Meca, Lecturer in History of Contemporary Philosophy, Universidad de Madrid (UNED), Spain Both among those who, by reason of thei... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2018 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Bacon Versus Freud, a Battle History

  

  Author: Marina Valcárcel Art Historian Francis Bacon Three Figures and Portrait, (1975) and Lucian Freud, Leigh Bowery (1991) It might seem these days that... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2018 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Egon Schiele, Beauty and the Chasm Between

  

  Author: Marina Valcárcel Art Historian Egon Schiele, Seated Woman with Bent Knee, 1917. Narodni Gallery, Prague Vienna is this year commemorating the centenary... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2018 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Modigliani, a Painter with One Eye Looking Inwards

  

  Author: Marina Valcárcel Art Historian Nude, 1917 In the winter of 1910, Amedeo Modigliani was accompanied by Anna Akhmatova on his strolls around Paris where,... Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2018 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Sigmar Polke: Biography, Works and Exhibitions

  

  As well as being one of today's most highly regarded artists (something that, incidentally, would have greatly annoyed him), Sigmar Polke is the... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2018 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• What I Understand by Philosophy

  

  Contributor: Dr. Diego Sánchez Meca, Lecturer in History of Contemporary Philosophy, Universidad de Madrid (UNED), Spain It is highly likely that, for many... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2018 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Onora O'Neill

  

  Author: Elena Cué This year’s Berggruen Prize for Philosophy Culture, endowed with $1,000,000, has been awarded to Onora O’Neill, Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve. Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2018 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Yayoi Kusama: Biography, Works and Exhibitions

  

  At the tender age of 10, a Japanese girl called Yayoi Kusama encountered the worlds of colour, sculpture and the modelling arts for the very first time. Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Vanessa Beecroft

  

  Author: Elena Cué Portrait of Vanessa Beecroft 2015 polaroid. Pico Studio, Los Angeles photograhed by © Federico Spadoni, 2017. Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Palmyra After ISIS

  

  Author: Marina Valcárcel Art Historian The execution of 25 Syrian soldiers by ISIS, Amphitheatre at Palmyra, July 2015 Palmyra after ISIS: The destruction of... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Frank Stella

  

  Author: Elena Cué Frank Stella en su casa del West Village, Manhattan. Photo: Elena Cué With a warm welcome, one of the most renowned painters of the American... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Likenesses of the Virgin Mary

  

  Author: Marina Valcárcel Art Historian Vitale da Bologna, Virgin of the Flagellants (1350), Vatican Pinacoteca A few years ago, Bill Viola found himself with... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Broken Images: Goya and Farideh Lashai

  

  Author: Marina Valcárcel Art Historian Detail: "And there's nothing to be done" from When I count, there are only you ... but when I look, there is only a... Read more

  Posted on 04 September 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE