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Why Magritte is a timeless genius

Why Magritte is a timeless genius

We will never stop marveling at the art of René Magritte. This Belgian surrealist who died in 1967 is forever contemporary; his paintings have never gone stale and never will. They are insidious conundrums that can never be solved, and the 21st century just can’t resist puzzling over them. A […]

Viollet-le-Duc: left in ruins or rebuilt?

Viollet-le-Duc: left in ruins or rebuilt?

Should old buildings be left in ruins or rebuilt? Does restoration bring beauty back to life or is it a betrayal of truth? We’re confronted with these questions more than ever as digital technology makes it ever more practical to repair or replicate lost masterpieces. From the possibility of resurrecting […]

Françoise Gilot: The Woman Who Says No

Françoise Gilot: The Woman Who Says No

Recently, on 10 June in The Guardian, the journalist Emma Brockes present an interview with Françoise Gilot, à propos of Malte Herwig’s book: The Woman Who Says No: Françoise Gilot on Her Life With and Without Picasso. In her opinion, Françoise Gilot takes a stern line with interviewers, assuming they […]

Climate change and the future of the art’s works

Climate change and the future of the art’s works

One of the oldest human illusions is that culture is a conquest of, or an escape from, nature. It is an illusion we need to abandon fast. We might nurture some desperate dream that, as the benign post-ice age climate that has made civilisation possible is destroyed by our own […]

Meeting place for wandering imaginaries

Meeting place for wandering imaginaries

From October 17th to December 31th this year, you could visit in gallery l’Intemporel in Paris an exhibition named: “Meeting place for wandering imaginaries”. It’s the result of a mixed work between the Gelonch Viladegut Collection and this art’s gallery. The goal is to present Catalan artists of the second […]

The exhibitions of this summer

The exhibitions of this summer

The summer is an excellent period for the trips, and says trips says discovery other places and meetings with other persons. So that the summer is a favoured period to discover and to meet the artists and your works. For it the offer of exhibitions of this summer is long […]

The better exhibitions in Paris this spring

The better exhibitions in Paris this spring

This spring there will be many, and good, exhibitions in Paris. Of all the offers, I have chosen 13 (12 + 1 for the superstitious ones). I hope to have succeeded in the choice and that you like: -“Henri Cartier-Bresson”, Centre Pompidou, 12.02-09.06.2014 -“Berlinde Bruyckere & Philippe Artières, il me […]

Paris, Paris, Paris

Paris, Paris, Paris

The first article publied in this blog, on May 28th 2011, has this title:’Paris will always stay in us…’And I wrote that: “For decades the Europeans, and we Catalans do not make an exception to it, considered Paris as the lighthouse for art, transgression and creativity … It is true […]

The best exhibitions of this Autumn

The best exhibitions of this Autumn

This Autumn 2013: A lot of exhibitions, a lot of exciting exhibitions, a lot of art…Enjoy! The best exhibitions in Catalonia: -“El Museu Picasso, 50 anys a Barcelona”, La Col.lecció, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 04.07-24.11.2013 -“Art Two Points, Barcelona lives the contemporary art”, MACBA, Barcelona, 18.07.2013-06.01.2014 -“Viatge a travès del blau: […]

The best art exhibitions this spring

The best art exhibitions this spring

As agree every three months, this is my personal choice of the best exhibitions presented this spring in Paris and around the world. It’s a large choice, and I hope you could know an or some axhibition atractive for you. In this season, to visit museums, exhibitions rooms or galleries […]