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MEDITACIONES DE UN POETA NORTEAMERICANO SOBRE EL SURREALISTA TRANSNACIONAL, UN DOMINGO DE DICIEMBRE EN BARCELONA 31 diciembre 2007 La exposición comienza con un texto que sitúa la obra de Tanguy en "una especie de matriz original donde mar y madre son una misma cosa", y al entrar nos encontramos de manera chocante con todo lo opuesto: los juegos de un niño caprichoso carente de toda paciencia artística —se puede decir que no es culpa del artista, todos tenemos derecho a un proceso de aprendizaje, a la experimentación y a los caprichos del artesano, o tal vez no eran para exhibirse estas obras—, y señala algo importante en la obra de Tanguy: la prisa por terminar, la impaciencia ante la idea de una obra posible. [Texto completo] PHILIPPINES: 'AROMA, LIGHT, COLOR, SONG' A low mumbling of congestion, cars, buses, bikes and jeepneys harmonize with pedestrians in urban chorus. Negotiating its way through a mixture of cooking smoke and tropical urban air, the salt of the seas soak clothes and voices alike. Sounds hover through the air under a pungent midday sun that shines over this country of more than 7,000 islands. Tempering brisk spirits and making strangers into instant friends, a humid atmosphere makes for willing faces, as a signature of Manila, the Philippines' capital city. [Full Profile] LUCCA: ELEGANT, DEFIANT, WALLED & ENDURINGTHE CITY CENTER IS ENCLOSED WITHIN WALLS OVERGROWN WITH GREEN & SERVING AS PARKLAND Updated 6 June 2006 As you approach the city by train, you find it is nestled in the green Tuscan countryside, but unassuming, unimposing, a humble quiet city that seems expert in giving back more than it asks. The city's medieval walls are still intact, and the top of the walls is parkland comprising a four kilometer hike around the city center. [City Page] PARMA: SAGE, SAVORY & URBANE Famed for its cured ham and zesty cheese, Parma is a gracious Italian city. There is a little bit of everything here, whether your tastes are musical or historical, Parma is an ideal place for a short weekend or a perfect day trip from nearby Bologna. Easily accessible by train, Parma offers an array of delights for the pedestrian, and was named by French newspaper Le Monde as the best city for living in Italy. [City Page] BOLOGNA: 70 KM OF PORTICOES & A STUDIED RESISTANCE Less well-known than nearby Tuscany with its myriad of famous hillscapes and medieval towns, the region of Emilia Romagna to the east boasts its great and complicated capital: Bologna. A town known for hearty cuisine and a leftist politics, Bologna is full of things to see and do apart from eating. It is an under-toured historical city, ripe for rich days of discovery. [City Page] FIRENZE: VALLEY OF GENIUS & REBIRTH Florence (Firenze in Italian) is a city like no other: a small provincial capital with the attractions and amenities of a major metropolis, but laced with the most stunning array of artistic creations available anywhere. It is a bustling cultural and tourism center, feeding the appetite of a region for a constant inflow of new visitors and for the preservation of its golden age. [City Page] AMERICA'S CUP 2007 ENERGIZES HOST CITY, VALENCIA, SPAIN Spain's third largest city, Valencia, won the bid to host the America's Cup after Switzerland, a land-locked country, won the world's premier sailing event in 2003 in New Zealand. With its roots in ancient times, and a rich tapestry of medieval history, Valencia is now looking to project an image as a cutting-edge 21st century city, with global appeal. [Full Story] TOURISTS SHOULD SPEND THEIR MONEY WISELY Tourists are often and well advised to always be aware that areas which favor tourists also often contain "tourist traps", set up specifically to wrest more than the going rate from unsuspecting and often giddy or jetlagged outsiders. A traveler's advice to fellow travelers would be: responsible tourism shouldn't aid in the disintegration of local neighborhoods or the extreme distortion of basic living costs... [Full Story] TARRAGONA: GRACE OF TIME & DAYLIGHT If you approach the city by train, you might be lucky enough to find a glistening blue sea to your left and the austere keep of the Roman amphitheatre rising on the hill to your right. It's a city with a unique and casual knack for such cohabitation, the ancient inlaid into a thriving modern city, once the seat of Roman colonial authority and trade in northeast Hispania, now Catalunya. [City Page] ABANICO: PHILIPPINE IMPRESSIONS Another current in time runs over this landscape, through the people. 'There is a different rhythm here'. This mantra greets me as I take my first breath of tropic metropolitan air. 'There is a different rhythm here'. This I hear from every quarter, from every mouth. It seems to be a national chorus, introducing me to the difference, without knowing how to describe it. 'It may take time', they tell me. I have already begun to succumb. [Keep reading] VALENCIA: SUNSOAKED ENLIGHTENING Spain's third largest city, Valencia is the bustling capital of the autonomous region called the Comunidad Valenciana. The surrounding landscape is laced with geometrically plotted orchards and orange groves and is famed for its agricultural richness and productivity. Throughout its varied history, Valencia has been ruled, like many Spanish cities, by a number of distinct civilizations, and now displays a commitment to blending the ancient with the modern in creating a city with an energy like no other. [City Page] CÓRDOBA: JEWEL OF LEARNING ANCIENT & NEW Córdoba was the preeminent city in Moorish Spain: educated, wealthy, populous, refined. The city was the intellectual capital of the Caliphate of Al-Andalus. It was here that Maimonides and Averroes dispensed their great philosophical works, where algebra was developed, and where European philosophy was rescued and restored to prominence by eager Moorish students and translators. [City Page] LONDON: QUIET LUXURY OF TIMELESS CULTURE London is often thought of as one of the world's great capitals, seething with millions upon millions from every corner of the world, known for its labyrinthine transit network and its multicultural makeup. Its museums, many of the best of which are free to the public, every day, stand as some of the most important reservoirs of cultural history in the world. [City Page] CRAFTING INVISIBLE FIRES The streets around Leicester Square were laced with street performers of surprising quality. I would later come to know this is not uncommon in the center of London. In particular, I found a string quartet enthralling. They were playing Beethoven and Bach, and within a few minutes had gathered a large crowd around them. They could easily have been playing in any concert hall, but the acoustics of the street and its rushing throng were the site of their sound, and they used it just as well... [Full Story] SAGUNT: BRAVE CITY OF ANCIENTS Sagunt is today a town little known outside of its surrounding region. It is an urban environment, nestled between the coastal hills and the Mediterranean, but far enough from the popular resort towns that one can still travel there without the relentless fanfare of major tourist sites. [City Page] NEW YORK: CITY FOR ALL SEASONS In this consummate cosmopolitan metropolis, more than half of its residents speak a language other than English in their homes, and it boasts one of the world's most vibrant cultural economies. The city of New York spends more money funding the arts than any other institution of government in the US. Winter tourism thrives as people come from around the globe to take in the famed ice-skating, performances and seasonal baubles... [City Page] BARCELONA: "THE GREAT ENCHANTRESS" Blessed with luxuriant geography, Barcelona is situated between two rivers, along the Mediterranean coast, and buttressed by the Collserrola massif. The landscape is naturally verdant and lush, and the present day city includes many barrios which used to be farming villages. Visitors can look out over the entire valley from Mount Tibidabo (a reference to the Biblical temptation of Jesus by the Devil, saying "this I give to you"). [City Page] POLITICS OF LANGUAGE IN DIVERSE SPAIN Spain's opposition PP has accused the regional government of Catalunya of "investigating, inspecting and sanctioning" businesses that put signs exclusively in Castilian (the language commonly known as "Spanish", though it originates in the central Spanish region of Castile, and other regions use other languages), according to La Vanguardia newspaper. [Full Story]
9 December 2005 The author of a book about the beloved bus design, mourned the passing of "a prime slice of vernacular". Londoners on ultra-busy Oxford High Street cheered each of the last public appearances of the Routemasters running on the 159 route, jeering the first appearance of the new bus on that same route. [Full Story] XAMPANYERIA: the Cava Bar It was one of those rare places that had no name but seemed to mean everything. We called it The Cava Bar because the product was cava, or Catalán champagne, and because it was the only one we knew. We haunted our nameless dominion through many an afternoon. It was our cherished nexus, a territory for the exposition of a certain cordial, intuitive madness. That of living without place. To call it a haunt does not imply that there was anything looming in the deep, there in the recesses of a champagne bar. It was, simply put, a place frequently visited by a group of expatriates. [Keep reading] 'TREE OF LIFE' MAKES USED WEAPONS INTO SIGN OF HOPE In the wake of Mozambique's long civil war, lasting from 1976 to 1992, a group of artists set up the Transforming Arms into Tools project in the nation's capital, Maputo. Sculptors use decomissioned weapons, and parts of weapons to make art, expressing the possibility of finding new ways to secure and advance civil society. [Full Story]
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