In the ever-crucial Malasaña is this interesting spot, Palma 3, something halfway between a café and a bar. Six months old, Palma 3 has a surprising, pleasant aesthetic, with a lilac- and peach-coloured door and a glass front bearing an Aztec idol burned on with acid. Inside, colourful décor and ‘Almodóvar-esque’ details such as bar stools with fleecy, mock cow-skin upholstery and numerous sofas sit happily alongside more traditional café furniture and bookshelves. Not surprisingly, a twentysomething crowd throngs into the local, attracted by the acid-jazz and reasonable bar prices.
September 26, 2008
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September 18, 2008
Yes
British rockers Yes were the kind of torpid dinosaurs that punk was supposed to swallow, wash down with pints of snakebite and puke up as a horrid green mucus. Yet somehow the band, who once released the ridiculously overblown double album ‘Tales from Topographic Oceans’, continues to fill stadia on both sides of the Atlantic. Still featuring their original singer Jon Anderson, they recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of their first album by releasing a new one, ‘The Ladder’. Prog-rock still lives… but why?
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September 12, 2008
September 8, 2008
Picasso and the War Years: 1937 – 1945
From 1937′s ‘Guernica’ to 1945′s ‘The Charnel House’, Picasso’s work during the war years reflects an unprecedented impact of external events on the life of a celebrated artist. ‘Guernica’, a howl of protest against the Fascist bombing of a Basque town during Spain’s civil war, signalled Picasso’s loyalty to the Republican cause and his anger at the brutality of the war, while ‘Charnel House’ reflects on news of atrocities in Nazi concentration camps. Although his reflections on the war were seldom as overt as in ‘Guernica’, the paintings, drawings and prints assembled here show the profound impact of the Spanish war, a European continent under the boot of fascism, and later the liberation of Paris on the work of one of the twentieth century’s most important artists.
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