Realidades y deseos

En Barcelona se forjó el genio universal de Miró, Dalí, Gaudí y Picasso. Un atractivo recorrido por su geografía urbana, con los comentarios de artistas y visitantes célebres nos da la medida exacta de su cosmopolitismo. Prólogo de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. Incluye desplegables con fotos panorámicas.

En palabras de Claudio Rolle, la travesía va dejando vestigios de vida restituida por medio de los objetos, los apuntes, las huellas que, de manera más o menos involuntaria, dejaron esos hombres y mujeres cuya cadena vital se interrumpió al desaparecer sus etnias. Ante tamaña tragedia el silencio parece ser una primera respuesta, un silencio de conmoción y sobrecogimiento, de respeto y de solidaridad con las víctimas de un exterminio. Pero luego emerge con fuerza el imperativo que la historia en cuanto disciplina de conocimiento de la aventura humana en el tiempo y en sociedad nos...

Anthological exhibition of Cuban photography, fifty artists and one hundred images allow an extensive tour of the development of photography in Cuba since its arrival on the island in 1840 to the present. With this exhibition, curated by the specialist Rafael Acosta de Arriba, the exhibition of Cuban photography returns to the Museum's halls. Somehow a similar attempt was made in 1983, when another representative sample of our photography was deployed to date. For the occasion, a catalog has been published in which several specialists discuss photography in Cuba, prominent women photographers ...

"Follows a fictional Sheffield band from Mexico, in the style of legendary magazine 'The Face' ... The context of the event [Art Sheffield 05] was 'Spectator T', a fictitious art goer without exposure to contemporary aesthetics, and the idea was to present artworks that would challenge this person's preconceived ideas about art. Thus, Toledo created a cover band that sang songs by local Sheffield groups, and named it after the cult Sheffield nightclub, The Limit, which closed in 1992. The band was created in Mexico ... where it played one local concert, then came to Sheffield, where it played ...