Shopping in Madrid: Chido Güey

Chido Güey's the Shop for the DF look here in Madrid

Have you been painfully aware lately that your wardrobe lacks the edgy pop-cultural flair of DF (Mexico City)? OK, perhaps not, but this revelation will hit with full force once you set foot inside Chido Güey.
Hidden on a typical stretch of inner-city Madrid streets among fruterias, pollerias and locutorias, this little shop...

English-Language Movies in Madrid - Elegy with Penelope Cruz

English-Language Movies in Madrid - Elegy with Penelope Cruz

by Andrew Poole
Far from the “Roses are Red, Violets are blue” simplicity of most “love stories”, Elegy...

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Bathing a la Lichtenstein

The Thyssen Bornemisza Museum containing work from Gothic Italian to American Pop Art is just minutes away from the AC Palacio del Retiro Hotel. Don't miss the hotel's Turkish baths! See review for details.

Madrid museums and exhibitions

Museums & Exhibitions Madrid

Museums in Madrid are some of the best in the world. Whether you want to check out Spanish classics at El Prado Museum, contemporary art at the Reina Sofía Museum, or a bit of both worlds at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, our comprehensive guide to museums in Madrid will give you an informative overview.

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Salvador Dalí

Just minutes away from the Westin Palace Hotel is the world-famous Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza featuring works by all the European masters. Don't miss Dali's beautifully intriguing and lengthily titled, "Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate Minutes before Waking." Whether Salvador woke on the "right" or "wrong" side of the bed that particular morning is still disputed; however, all can agree it was definitely the "surreal" side.

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Plaza Mayor from Bullfighting to Royal Weddings

Artists in Plaza Mayor capture Spanish life on canvass. Photo by Kike - also see his websites 1 & 2.

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Exhibitions in Madrid

Igor Mitoraj continues to display his sculpture along Paseo del Prado just down the street from the Madrid Ritz - near Atocha Station at the entrance to Retiro. Sponsored by Caixa Forum.

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Las Fallas Shine in Valencia

One of the many large-scale "ninots" (puppets) created to be destroyed by fire in Valencia's "Las Fallas" celebration. See story for details.

Art - Picasso

Up Close and Personal with Picasso

by Sydney Kunz-McCarthy
Naked people, crying people, minotaurs, guitars, his women and himself: the 400+ piece Picasso exhibit at the Reina Sofia gives a fascinating perspective of the artist as he saw himself. The works...

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Check Your Head

The sculptures of Igor Mitoraj being shown along Paseo del Prado near Atocha Station at the entrance to Retiro. Sponsored by Caixa Forum.

art - Painting of Otto Dix

The Camera and the Canvas

When "Video killed the radio star" this wasn’t the first instance of carnage in the world of art. New mediums and technologies always...

Spanish History in Art - Dos de Mayo

Why do We Riot? Exhibit on Dos de Mayo

If you were here on the 2nd of May last year (2007), you’ll remember the riots in the barrio of Malasaña: hooded activists lobbing stones and lighting fires, police in combat...

Art Spaces - Caixa Forum

Caixa Forum: Corporate Responsibility or Long-Term Publicity Stunt?

By Andre Nakazawa
Any recent stroll down the Paseo de Prado has surely been interrupted by the sight...

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Zap Speaks to the People

More visual irony by our man on the street.

Photo by Jacobo de Castro. For more Madrid photos and writing by Jacobo see his blogs 1, 2, and 3.

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Gabriele Basilico's Intercity

Basilico's photograhpic exhibit covers architecture from around the world. See article

art - ARCO

ARCO Art Fair: Brazil Saves the Day!

The Question is the same every year: Is art Dead? Wandering through the multi-national maze of kiosks at ARCO, Madrid's largest art fair, the answer didn’t look optimistic. Shortly after...

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Eye on ARCO

ARCO, the biggest art exhibition of the year, is here. See review for slide show and more info.

Madrid in Film History

Madrid in Film History - Skip the Exhibit but Read this List

According to Así es Madrid…en el cine, an exhibition of Madrid in film, around 300 films have been shot in Madrid so far. Not as impressive as New York, London or Paris, they say...

politics and art

Anne Frank Spanish Musical Sings of Holocaust - the Happier Version

It's easier to hide from Nazis while wearing a buttercup yellow dress and belting showtunes. Or so Madrid’s own Teatro Calderón...

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The Alternative Scene

The Festival Alternativo de las artes Escénica starts today the 30th of Jan. See article for more info. Pictured is RAIO X from Brasil. Photo by Dominik Fricker .

art and bar - collage fest

Art Attack in Madrid

You never know what you’re going to find next in Madrid. Walking home last night through the multi-cultural maze of Lavapiés, I wandered by Traveling, one of Madrid’s hippest bars and best kept secrets. The street outside was strangely silent and not so much as a ray of light escaped the door. “Closed? On a Wednesday? Am I not in Madrid?” I had no intention of entering, but as I passed I...

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King of Creativity

Juan Carlos Lecaros, King of Creativity, strikes again in Lavapiés. Pictured here, he is explaining his most recent project a massive, collaborative collage. See article for details.

culture/history - Italian Sculpture Chosen by Velásquez

Velásquez on a Spending Spree!

Have you ever been to Rome or The Vatican and had the irrational urge to start buying up sculpture and take it home? The Bronze Lion? “I’ll take it.” The Cabeza de Apolo? “Give me two.” The Cabeza de Safo? “Yes, I’ll buy two of these as well.” Well, Diego...

art - Flamenco on Canvas

Flamenco Hits the Reina Sofia

Most of us, if asked to visualize flamenco, would probably conjure up the images sold to us in every tchotchke-hawking tourist trap around Puerta del Sol: castanets, brightly colored dresses, fans and shawls, images of men with guitars or the quintessential form of the foot-stamping, hand...

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Images of Flamenco

More than twelve rooms of flamenco art cover the visual legacy of flamenco at the Reina Sofia. See the review.

culture/history - Rome Exhibit

There's No Place Like Rome – The Madrid Exhibit

At its height, the Roman Empire stretched from Great Britain to the north of Africa and from Syria to Spain. Trajan, a Spaniard, even ruled the Empire briefly. In addition to the infamous gladiator...

photography - Luis Ramon Marin

Photojournalism Exhibit of Madrid - Final days

Warning! The arts guides posted the wrong closing date for this event. Apologize to anyone who tried to go. We tried to go twice before we figured it out.

Here’s one not to miss. The images of photojournalist Luis Ramon Marin are on exhibit until Monday the 21st of January. The best news is that you don’t have to go out of your...

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Madrid Photojournalism: Luis Ramón Marín

The work of Luis Ramón Marín is on Exhibit until the 21st of January. See review for details.

art - Mapplethorpe

Mapplethorpe - Classic or Cliche?

Mapplethorpe has hit Madrid. Although your immediate reaction might be “been there, done that” assuming you don’t need to see any more of this all-too-familiar work. That, ironically, may be just the reason to go. The photos, no longer caught in the crosshairs of controversy, can’t rely on shock value...

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Robert Mapplethorpe

See article for gallery location.

Holiday - creative gifts

Last-Minute Creative Gifts!

So are you suffering from a bad case of “buyers block” – you simply can’t think of a thing to buy for the people on your list. With the Christmas deadline hurling toward you, you’re getting nervous, no? Don’t worry Madrid is full of innovative gift solutions at great prices – we’ll get your creative consumer juices flowing. Ikonhaus, for example, is ideal for the fashion-ista in your...

shopping - alternative holiday market

Alternative Holiday Market in Lavapiés!

Does the prospect of throwing yourself into the crushing crowds of Sol render you nearly agoraphobic? Are you plagued by some vague consumer guilt over factory-made (sweatshop?) merchandise? So ditch...

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More Cheeky Graffiti

Modern graffiti tags drip across a sprawling seven-foot copy of Diego Velazquez's 'La Venus de Espejo' at the Gran Via Station. The begrimed goddess advertises the exhibition 'Fabulas de Valazquez' at Museo del Prado until February 24th. Photo by Molly Norris

art - Young Artists Awards

Art that doesn't Suck!

So maybe classic art isn’t your thing. Perhaps portraits of anemic royalty and painstakingly rendered platters of fruit don’t “speak” to you – fair enough. If you are looking for something a bit more “now”, swing by the Circulo de Bellas Artes between now and the 13th of January, 2008. Displayed in the Sala Picasso are the winners of the Creación Injuve 2007, the award for young artists. Young, in this case, refers to the under 30 set. Divided into three categories - visual arts, comics and illustration, and design – the show hosts 50 artists. Within these categories...

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Unpoppable Bubble Wrap

Try saying the title of this photo 10 times fast. Selection from the Creación Injuve 2007. See article.

Spanish moms make erotic calendar

Spanish Moms Get "Sextra-Curricular"

A group of moms in Salamanca, Spain have posed for an erotic calendar in order to get a real rise–in funding! These Castillian MILFS are getting purchase orders from Italy to Venezuela, all in the name of building an activity center for their kids. How about them manzanas?...

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The Art of Violence in Lavapies

From sex toy shops and anarchist cafes to locutorios and Churrerias, you'll find it all in Lavapiés. And Julien Charlon, the man who has photo-documented the neighborhood on an almost microscopic level, is plotting his new project. This time the focus will be none other than murder. See today's interview.

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Mona Knows Where to Shop

Don't miss this years Supermercado del Arte. Art by Jose Angel Briz

art - El Greco

Hey Greco, Why the Long Face?

For the average person, the name El Greco might churn up some very vague associations, “Hey, isn’t he a famous dead guy?” Those of you a bit more in the know might further expand upon this previous revelation with, “Ya, the guy who had a thing for morbidly gaunt models?...”

art - ice sculpture

Mystery Solved: Missing Polar Ice Turns up in Madrid!

Ironically, as the ice caps are disappearing from the poles they are turning up in… sunny Spain? Nearly 300 tons of it, anyway. This inversion is not the wayward effect of global warming - it is all in the name of art. If you’d like to catch just a bit of the arctic this season...

Art - Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol - Artistic or Autistic?

Due to his soup-can choice of subject matter and bizarre persona, the perennial question with Warhol is “Was he taking the piss?” It is, after all, a valid question for a man who actually urinated on an entire series of canvasses to achieve certain color effects...

Osborne Bull Turns 50

Happy Birthday Osborne Bulls!

Driving throughout the Spanish countryside, one cannot ignore the gigantic bull silhouettes boasting from hilltops and plains. Weighing over four thousand kilos each and with a height of nearly fourteen meters (equivalent to a four-story building), ninety Osborne bulls stand frozen in time, carefully placed to be easily...

cinema - CineMad '07

Festival of Independent and Cult Film

It is back! The 14th annual festival de CineMad has hit the town! As always they will dish up every type of independent and cult cinema from Bollywood to horror flicks to Documentaries. This year’s featured artist is Alejandro Jodorowsky, the Chilean-born mad man who seems to have dabbled in everything over his lengthily career: mime, writing, directing, psychotherapy… His seminal films such as...

art - Mad is Mad

The Art of Irony - Mad is Mad's Autumn Show

“Irony” was the unofficial theme of the evening at the Mad is Mad's Autumn Collective Show. Upon entering one was greeted by a series of Disney drawings gone pornographic: elaborate recreations of these world-famous characters – their heads all replaced with giant phalluses (by Jorge Gonzalez). This set the tone and, interestingly enough...

art and community - a Photo walk with David Sifry

Photowalk - Unleashing Scores of Photographers on the City

When you browse your photo collection, are you disappointed that you don't have a better representation of the city you live in every day? It happens easily enough: when we travel...

Art - Asian Pop

A Taste of Tokyo in the Middle of Madrid

Those who have had the pleasure of traveling in Japan already know how quirky, profound and inescapably elegant the Japanese aesthetic can be. A Sunday walk through Yoyogi Koen (the “Central Park” of Tokyo) can bring you face to face with marvelous fusions like punk rock geisha – a look so harmoniously constructed your jaw will literally drop. OK, so bopping over to Japan isn’t an immediate option for most...

art - neighborhood-wide murder mystery

Lavapiés - Site of Massive Murder Mystery Game?

So yesterday I promised we would track down French photographer, Julien Charlon, and we did. As we mentioned we are fans of Julien’s last multi-media book. This project, bound in a bright...

art - photography

Lavapiés - Site of Gang Violence or Vibrant Community?

Last Thursday, November 1, was a typical night in the barrio of Lavapiés. People stood anxiously outside the metro waiting on friends, groups gathered in the neighborhood’s varied restaurants to sample some...

Photography - the 20th century

The Círculo de Bellas Artes Tackles the Entire 20th Century and Wins! (More or Less)

I saw that the Círculo de Bellas Artes was putting on an exhibit called Leading Moments: Photography in the 20th Century and I thought: "All of the 20th century?" An ambitious goal to be sure, but an...

art - local art schools

2015: Museo Reina Sofia Presents ?

For those of you who are of the ‘Maybe I should take up ’ kind, there is one excuse less to stay put on your couch. Madrid offers a wide range of courses and activities that are extremely fun and where you might accidentally pick up some skills as well. Aspiring painters and drawers can brush up on (no pun intended) their abilities in...

art - Free admission at the Prado

No More Excuses - Visit the Prado!

Though sickness and relative ineptitude are common pleas, lack of money is one of the finest justifications for a lack of cultural exploration. Unfortunately for you...

art - photography

Isabel Muñoz - The Best of Brain and Braun

Isabel Muñoz is one of the most important and exciting figures in Spanish photography today. She is renowned for using one of the most difficult photo developing techniques, platinotype, using platinum paper to produce superior quality B&W photographs. Her work is a treat for the...

Madrid Museums - La Reina Sofia

The Reina Sofia - The Epicenter of Modern Art

Nestled amidst the bustling city of Madrid is that sanctuary of modern art known as La Reina Sofia. The museum is host to a truly wide-ranging permanent collection as well as visiting exhibits from around the world. Their most notable collections include that of Picasso, especially the renowned...

Cinema in Madrid

Cine Doré and The Filmoteca - for the Rarified, the Arty, the Quirky, the Camp and the Profound!

A true Madrileño weekend consists of the 5 C’s: Cañas, Clubbing, Chilling in Retiro and Caressing in a Cinema. In...

Art - Portraiture

The Friendly Face of Art

Strangely enough, portraits, as often than not, tell us more about ourselves than the subjects involved. Do we as a society chose to valorize religious figures, military officers, members of the royal family or average folk on the street? Furthermore do we do this through the means of photography, photorealism, impressionism or abstract expressionism...

Our Suggestions

Let the (MAP) Force Guide You!

The following will read like a crash course in Madrid culture. No matter what your concerns, questions or proclivities, we think you’ll be able to find something to suit your lifestyle in our medley of suggestions. As you read through the items, if you don't find what you need, check the search box at the right. If you still can't find what you are looking for, go ahead and drop us a line and we’ll try to help you out.

Festival de Otoño

The Festival de Otoño is Picking up Where Summer Left Off

Hardly have the summer festivals finished when the fall excitement begins. Starting Monday, the 15th of October, and running until Sunday, the 18th of November, The Festival de Otoño presents a vast array of theater, dance, and music to insure that autumn is every bit as exciting as summer was. The agenda covers every possible point on the spectrum of performing arts from the high-energy modern circus of “Piratas, Piratas” to more traditional...

Art - A Critical Ass-essment of the Backside

The Bum Finally Celebrated by Madrid Arts Community!

‘If a face reflects the soul, there is nothing more bodily and carnal than the butt.’ Apart from being a deep, philosophical and eternal truth, this sentence also happens to be the motto of Madrid’s latest photo-exhibition. And how true! - the butt part, that is. Indulge in pure bodily pleasure at Fundación Carnal… oops, I mean Canal!...

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Her Night to Shine

Here is a shot from Noche en Blanco – the night that the city shone even more brightly than usual. Featured here is the old post office which has since been converted. The building has frequently been mocked for being excessive – often being compared to an ostentatious wedding cake. On the excessive night of Noche en Blanco, however, she finally fits in.

film - San Sebastian Film Festival

Arabic Directors Win Top Spots at Spanish Film Festival

Arabic directors have made a strong showing at the internationally acclaimed San Sebastian Film Festival here in the north of Spain. Two excellent films are being presented with the Cinema in Motion Award...

Markets - The Rastro

The Bloody History of the Rastro

The Rastro, Madrid’s largest outdoor market can only be described as “a universe unto itself”. With origins that stretch back nearly five centuries, one can only imagine the plentitude of traditions surrounding this massive Sunday event...

Art - All-Night Art Festival

Noche en Blanco: Art All Night Long!

This Saturday, you have just one more reason to stay up late. In fact, you’ll be regarded as a connoisseur and a cultural gourmet if you do: for the second year in a row, Madrid will turn itself into a living piece of art. A few years ago Paris came up with the idea of opening museums and organizing activities on a Saturday night, long after regular opening hours. It was such a success that every self-respecting big European city has its own version and in Madrid they named it Noche en Blanco...

cafe, bar, club

Marula Café: Get Punked In Style

Marula Café, named after an African fruit commonly eaten by elephants, has one of the best terrazas in Madrid - particularly because of its view. Situated on a corner right under the bridge of Calle Bailen (for the moment, we will ignore the fact that people commit suicide from this bridge), you get a view of gardens and the magnificent arch structure that supports the bridge...See other interesting links such as: Technorati Profile

Photography

The Personal is the Political: HIV Sufferers in Africa and Central America

I’m an absolute sucker for real-life photography. But I almost feel guilty going to ‘look at’ someone’s private life a photographer is publicly exhibiting. However, when it’s an awareness or fund raising exercise done in conjunction with a charity organization, it’s valid; Omar Ayyashi’s exhibition of people with HIV in Mozambique and Honduras is a perfect example.

Art

Art So Infused With Black Humor And Rebellion That It’ll Make You Chuckle and Choke!

Sporadic art exhibitions keep popping up like wild mushrooms in Madrid, and it’s often hard to find one that is worth the “trip” - especially when you aren’t an art freak.

Street Art

So What Exactly is Dry Cleaning Art?

This week, The Dry Cleaning Lavandaria on Calle Argumosa 9, turns into a gallery by night and begins its exposition with a display of black and white acrylic art pieces depicting tarot cards with a naked Pope and Popess. Word is that it’s work-in-progress as the spiritual figures still need to get tattooed.

History

Celebrating a Dictator’s Death in a Ballroom

The first image of Prime Minister Arías Navarros on TV solemnly announcing: “Españoles, Franco...ha...muerto” is also the calmest one in the collection of photos, posters and artifacts that the Circulo de Bellas Artes has put together to commemorate the 7 years following the dictator’s death.

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Sebastiao Salgado - Photography of Africa

To many people Sebastiao Salgado is photography...

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The Making of Madrid - How the Architectural Style Came To Be

Palacios or How to Build a Metropolis. If Antonio Palacios would have had his way, you would now be living in a city crammed with cathedral-like buildings serving as hotels, art centres and government buildings. Sol would have been ellipse-shaped ...

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Muta Matadero x NOPHOTO

Muta Matadero x NOPHOTO, using the elements of past and present photographs and film, has created a world within a world, a photo exposition that seems to reflect in upon itself and then to expand out to the city that surrounds ...

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Lo(s) Cinetico(s) - Kinetic Art At The Reina Sofia

All it takes are a few mirrors, an electronic motor or just some very strategically placed blobs of paint to leave you in awe and wondering, “How did they do that?” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía present Lo(s) Cinetico(s), an exhibition where every painting and object seems to move. Not recommended if you are still suffering from a hangover. True, not everybody will be equally moved by modern art. A big white canvas with some black lines...

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Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales - Madrid’s Royal Convent

Tired of shopping on nearby Preciados, worn out by modern-day life and disappointed in that eternal struggle called "love"? There is always the option of getting away from it all and becoming a nun in the Convent of “the Barefooted Royals”. If you aren’t ready to commit to a lifetime of cleric service, you can, of course, just visit...

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Photo Espana - Lourdes Grobert’s Lucha Libre (Mexican Wrestling)

Photo Espana, (PHE) is an annual festival of international photography and visual arts; it’s held in the most important museums, galleries and exposition centers in Madrid. One of the many prolific photographers featured is Lourdes Grobert with Espectacular de Lucha Libre, housed in Casa de America. Lucha Libre means “Free Fighting” it’s wrestling for us English speakers and Lourdes Groberts has been photographing it since 1975. Her photos...

Art - Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh: The Final Landscapes (Los Ùltimo Paisajes)

Vincent Van Gogh had a remarkably productive career but nothing came close to the output of his final two and a half months. In May of 1890, having recently recuperated from a mental illness, he moved to Auver-sur-Oise, France. It was here that he would end his life, but...

Madrid Cafés: Arts scene at Nietzsche

DJs and Visual DJs at Nietzsche

If you are looking to spice up your Thursday night, but want to keep it easy and cheap consider Nietzsche, which you may have read about on this very site (see May 8th). This bar and art space is relatively young and still, it seems, experimenting with its exceptionally beautiful venue...

Dance - XLR

XLR Dance Company - A Skateboard Ballet?

It had to happen sooner or later: the acrobatic antics of skaters would be recognized as the legitimate choreography that they are. Tonight is the last night to see XLR...

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Ladinamo - Underground Cafe

Ladinamo Calle Mira el Sol, 2 Metro: Lavapiés, La Latina or Puerta de Toledo Tues-Thurs 17.00 to midnight, and Fri to Sun noon-midnight www.ladinamo.org The Pirate Network! Ladinamo is a cooperative cafe and cultural center that attracts the s...

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Photoespaña 2007 - The Best Photography Show of the Year

Photoespaña website Sexier than Your Ancestors I think everyone would agree that there’s a monumental difference between dutifully studying your family tree and eagerly glancing around the room considering who you might want to perpetuate that pa...

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Madrid Inmigrante Exposicion at Consejeria Cultura y Deportes

Madrid Inmigrante Exhibit Consejeria de Cultura y Deportes, Canal de Isabel II Santa Engracia, 125 T: 91 545 10 00 Tues-Sat: 11-14 &17 -20:30; Sundays 11-2; Mon Closed Metro: Rios Rosas, Canal, Alonso Cano Immigration Through Another Lens If ...

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Documenta Madrid - Madrid Documentary Festival

Documenting A Little Bit Of Everything Documentamadrid ‘07 Friday and Saturday the 12th and 13th Documentamadrid 07 Although this weekend is full of hip-hip, those of you who don’t have the cash or are looking for something a little more mellow m...

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Cultura Urbana Hip Hop Festival

Cultura Urbana Hip Hop Festival Thank God For Hip Hop Saints! Big weekend coming up! San Isidro, Madrid’s largest street festival, has somehow transformed from a religious event to a hip-hop free-for-all - strange, I don’t hear anyone complain...

Nietzsche Bar Madrid

Nietzsche Art & drink - Super Classy Bar

Nietzsche Art & Drink Calle Doctor Fourquet, 12 (watch out this street discontinues and turns) T. 91 506 1141 Sun to Thurs, noon to 1:30; Fri & Sat, noon to 2:30 That Which does not Kill You… So you’re on your way out for the evening and ...

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Art Exhibit: The Mirror And The Mask - Portraiture In The Age of Picasso

The Mirror and the Mask Portraiture in the Age of Picasso Two locations : (Free! Annex location) Fundacion Caja Madrid – Plaza San Martin, 1 Tues to Sun 10:00 – 20:00 (Not free! Main location – 9 euros) Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza – Paseo del Prado, 8...

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Photography Exhibit: The Mara - Casa de Las Americas

Exhibit: Mara Artist: Isabel Muñoz Casa de Las Americas Plaza de Cibeles, 2 T: 91 595 48 00   www.casamerica.es Documenting Life in Prison Standing before Isabel Muñoz’s dwarfing, black and white portraits of prisoners leaves you not only spee...

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Mad is Mad - Exhibition featuring Javier Lozano

Mad is Mad Calle Pelayo, 48 Mon to Fri: 17:00 – 21:30 Sat: 11 – 14:30 & 17:00 - 21:30; Sun: Closed T. 91 391 43 11 Metro: Chueca www.madismad.com Punk Pop Portraits "Mad is Mad" represents the kids you grew up with who made neat magazine...

Cafés in Madrid: Café De Los Signos

Café De Los Signos

The most unique café to hit the scene in recent years, Café De Los Signos, caused a stir in Madrid by being the first café to cater to and be run by the deaf. However, it should be noted that all people regardless of their hearing status are more than welcome.

Cafés in Madrid Lavartebar

Lavartebar: cafe/bar

Lavartebar is a must-know for anyone living in Lava Pies. It looks small from the street, but entering ...

Art Exhibitions in Madrid, Spain: MC Escher

MC Escher: El Arte De Lo Imposible

Sala de exposiciones Canal Isabel II Santa Engracia, 125 Metro: Alonso Cano Daily - 10.00 to 21.00 4€ general admission, 2€ students Until 15 April 2007 Years ago, like any good fifteen-year-old stoner, I was well acquainted with the work of MC Esc...

Shopping in Madrid: PlazaArte

PlazaArte

PlazaArte Calle San Marcos 4 T/F 91 522 85 93 Web: www.plazaarte.com When speaking of pop art, PlazaArte can’t be overlooked. From chairs a-la-Lichtenstein to chests of drawers a-la-Warhol, they have all your bases covered. In addition the owners ...

Shopping in Madrid: Black Sun

Black Sun

Black Sun Calle Hernan Cortes 16 T/F 91 521 1998 Web: http://www.blacksunmadspain.com/ If you’ve been regretting the fact that Andy Warhol is no longer around to immortalize your image in portraiture, regret no more! At Black Sun you can have your imag...

Cool shops in Madrid: Panta Rhei, art, books, and gallery in madrid

Panta Rhei

Panta Rhei Calle Hernan Cortes 7 T. 91 319 8902 Web: www.panta-rhei.es Are you, by any chance, looking for a book about existential dogs? If so, Panta Rei (a bookshop, art gallery, and publisher) is just the place for you. Their first publicati...

Hip Hop in Madrid

Subaquatica

Shopping in Madrid for hip hop and streetwear clothing? Check out Subaquatica: a cool shop in Madrid, Spain offering urban clothing, videos, art and even action figures! Check out our review.

Art stores and classes in madrid: Ceramics

Pinta en Copas

Pinta en Copas Calle Velarde 3 T. 91 445 3343 Web: www.pintaencopas.com This store functions as a sort of anti-Ikea. Instead of funneling you through a one-way, high-pressure, consumer track, they invite you to browse at your leisure, chose from...

Galleries and Art Stores in Madrid: Lomography

Lomography

Lomography Calle Echegaray 5 T.91 369 1799 Web: www.lomospain.com or www.lomography.com If you are asking yourself what the hell ‘lomography’ is, you’re not alone. If your knowledge of Spanish is leading you to absurd conclusions like, ‘it’s pro...