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LATEST ARTICLES ( 213 )

• Gilbert Garcin - Making the Meaningless Meaningful

  

  A little over a month ago, on 20th April 2020, one of the greatest photographers of the last three decades died aged 92. Gilbert Garcin, whose artistic career... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2020 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Van Eyck: An Optical Revolution

  

  On 7th March 1500, Emperor Charles V was baptized at St Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent, a fortnight after his birth. The verticality of the central nave, with its... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2020 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Joan Miró: Biography, Works, Exhibitions

  

  Joan Miró was never one to play it by the book. As an artist, he lived and worked with the most notable creatives of his time and was open to the influence of... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2020 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Christian Boltanski: Doing One's Time

  

  French artist Christian Boltanski is an old acquaintance of the Spanish public. His 1988 Madrid exhibition – “El Caso” (The Case) - was a curious and... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2020 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Charlotte Perriand: Inventing A New World

  

  Art is in everything, art is in life and it expresses itself on every occasion and in every country. Charlotte Perriand, iconic figure of twentieth century... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2020 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Leonardo Da Vinci ~ an Infinite Curiosity

  

  On a scale of difficult to … how does one even begin to guess what was going through Leonardo da Vinci's mind on seeing a woodpecker for the first time? Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2020 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Takashi Murakami: Biography, Works and Exhibitions

  

  Nowadays, artists don’t have to take a vow of poverty in order to be successful and garner recognition from the general public. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2020 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Al Gore

  

  The former vice president of the US government under Bill Clinton's administration, Al Gore (Washington D.C., 1948), is known worldwide for his efforts in the... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2020 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Gormley at the Royal Academy: a Discourse in Iron

  

  This exhibition bombards us with a storm of ideas. It is a gauntlet thrown down to us by the Royal Academy and one that Gormley takes up, with all his weapons... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2020 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Guerrilla Girls ~ The Conscience Of The Art World

  

  Guerrilla Girls are a collective of anonymous artists who emerged during the 1980s in the United States with the aim of protesting the sexism suffered by women... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2020 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Spa & Beauty. Geumhyung Jeong. The Ryder Gallery

  

  Geumhyung Jeong is an interdisciplinary Korean artist with roots in the worlds of theatre, animation and dance. Her arrival onto the contemporary art circuit... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Ramón Tamames

  

  Does science distance us from God? Professor of Economic Structure and member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences Ramón Tamames (Madrid, 1933)... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  

  Sidi, the latest novel by writer and Royal Spanish Academy member Arturo Pérez Reverte (Cartagena, 1951), has just been published. Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Stephen Schwarzman

  

  Stephen Schwarzman (Pennsylvania, 1947), CEO and co-founder of Blackstone, one of the world's leading investment firms, is an active philanthropist in areas suc... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Wonderful Rediscovery of Lorenzo Lotto

  

  Let me start by highlighting what makes the 'Lorenzo Lotto. Portraits' exhibition such an exceptional project. Firstly, because never before has this subject... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Nick Bostrom

  

  The Swedish philosopher is one of the most influential in the field of superintelligence. He is the director of the Future of Humanity Institute at the... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Interview with Anselm Kiefer

  

  With twilight beginning to fall on the little French village of Barjac, I began my tour of La Ribaute ~ 40 hectares of the German artist Anselm Kiefer's making ... Read more

  Posted on 23 September 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Colosseum, the Engine of Roman Power

  

  Coliseum director Dr Rosella Rea accompanies ABC Cultural on an exceptional visit through some of the recently restored, but as yet unopen to the public, areas... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Salvador Dali: Biography, Works and Exhibitions

  

  Life is art and art is life ..... or are they just two sides of the same coin? It is figures such as Salvador Dali who bring much-needed light to this shady,... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• An Invisible Image: The Tomb of the Diver

  

  This could be the beginning of a novel: Poseidonia, 5th century BC, and tragedy befalls a family from the local aristocracy. The lifeless body of their only... Read more

  Posted on 26 June 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE