Editorial Taschen has published a monumental collector's edition devoted to Salvador Dali, which in two volumes reveals previously unseen material on his life and work with the collaboration of the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation. This exhaustive overview shows the genius from Figueras in all his complexity: creator of the paranoiac-critical method, an egomaniacal provocateur and a revolutionary of 20th-century art. Among religious fantasies, erotic obsessions and the mythical figure of Gala, Dali embodied surrealism as a personal and vital attitude beyond any doctrine.
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The exceptional exhibition "Raimundo de Madrazo", organized by the Fundacion MAPFRE and the Meadows Museum, brings together more than a hundred works in the largest retrospective devoted to date to the refined Madrid painter. the technical virtuosity and the sophisticated world that Madrazo immortalized, revealing the legacy of an essential artistic dynasty and recovering for our time the exquisite sensibility of one of the great names of 19th-century Spanish painting.
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The matador Jose Tomas and the artist Luis Gordillo have been brought together by their tribute to the bullfighter Victor Barrio. A bull, "Lorenzo", took the life of the young torero from Segovia. "Navegante" gored Jose Tomas gravely in Aguascalientes. The master of Galapagar knows what it is to die in the ring; he did it, but he came back after dwelling in that place. His heart never stopped beating even as life gushed out of him.
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The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris hosts the largest retrospective devoted to David Hockney, one of the most innovative and life-affirming artists of our time. With more than 400 works, the exhibition celebrates his luminous gaze and his inexhaustible curiosity about color, technology and life. Hockney, at almost 88, continues to explore art with freedom, humor and sensitivity, proving that spring - like art - cannot be cancelled.
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A couple of months ago a new urban mural appeared on a vacant lot in the Finsbury Park neighborhood, in north London, made by Banksy, which has once again brought one of the most outspoken and mysterious artists of the current scene back into the spotlight; he has claimed authorship through Instagram.
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Cindy Sherman, one of the most influential figures in contemporary art, comes to Spain with a show that gathers some of her most emblematic works. The exhibition "Cindy Sherman. The Women", organized by the Hauser & Wirth Menorca gallery, traces a journey through four decades of the work of this American photographer, whose unsettling, poetic and profoundly conceptual aesthetic has revolutionized the way we understand identity, gender and the construction of the self through the image.
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The professional career of the singular French jeweler Elie Top (Hazebrouck, France, 1976) is, to say the least, fascinating. From a very early age he showed an inclination toward design, fashion, architecture and gardens. At only 15 years old he ventured to send some of his fashion designs to
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The political philosopher and 2018 Princess of Asturias Award laureate for Social Sciences, Michael Sandel (Minnesota, 1953), gave a lecture this Monday at the Areces Foundation, bearing the same name as his book, ‘The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering’. The new advances in biotechnology call for an ethical critique that is always highly complex, for, in order to preserve our moral and ethical values, particular cases make it difficult to resolve important questions.
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Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin empire, is much more than an entrepreneur: he is a visionary who has pushed the boundaries of business, adventure, and philanthropy. From his beginnings with a student magazine to his journey into space, Branson champions a human-centered leadership committed to people and the planet. In this interview, he reflects on artificial intelligence, climate change, and his calling to change the world with passion, empathy, and action.
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Nicolas Berggruen (1961) is the founder and chairperson of Berggruen Holdings and the interdisciplinary think-tank, the Berggruen Institute, where scientists, economists, philosophers and artists from around the world engage and put forward proposals to tackle the 21st-century challenges facing humanity. Among the issues raised against the technifying, globalization and capitalist background of our time is that of how we see ourselves and recognize the other person in all their fullness from a moral perspective.
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Damien Hirst (1965) began his artistic career as an iconic member of the Young British Artists group. The advertising mogul and gallery owner Charles Saatchi raised this group to the heights of world recognition and made Hirst its foremost representative, by funding and supporting his career. He was the one who managed to sell - in 2004 and for 9.5 million euros - Hirst’s tiger shark preserved in formaldehyde. This particularly representative work forms part of his Natural History series, along with his cabinets of fish in formaldehyde.
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Recently inaugurated in Lisbon, Rapture, is the largest exhibition by artist and political activist, Ai Weiwei, (Beijing, China, 1957) described by The New York Times as one of the most important critical artists of our time, with his eloquent and unsilenceable voice for freedom. The exhibition title has various meanings; one is the “transcendent moment that connects the earthly dimension with the spiritual dimension.” Another is the “hijacking of our rights and freedom”
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Until 18th October, Berlin's Museum of German History will be hosting the exhibition "Hannah Arendt and the 20th Century" which provides the perfect pretext to focus attention on one of the finest minds to have cut a swathe through the history of modern thought. The value of testimony from one of the freest thinkers in the field of political theory is all the greater since it comes from Arendt's own lived experience and is based on an absolute independence of reasoning over and above conventionalism of any kind.
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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 fight against human-caused global warming. In 2007 he received the Nobel Peace Prize as well as an Oscar for Best Documentary (2007) for the broadcasting of his speech "An Inconvenient Truth". Concern for global warming was something that had haunted him since his time as a congressman in 1976. As early as 1998, he had already proposed the launch of the Nasa DSCOVR satellite which became possible, years later, thanks to his efforts.
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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) delves into the cosmology between scientists and philosophers in the already longstanding quest for the Primary Cause or Higher Intelligence as origin of the universe. The title of his latest book 'Searching For God In The Universe. A worldview on the meaning of life' (Erasmus) gives a clue as to its contents.
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