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Art Fairs? Impressive

-> Art Fairs? Impressive

I have just arrived at the Arco Art Fair in  Madrid. Have you ever visited an art fair? If the answer is no, then DO IT! You will enter a never-seen-before world. An art fair is more than a solo exposition or one artist's performance. It is a "cosmo" around which several artists,  galleries, interests, hopes and emotions frantically revolve. ...

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Feb 19, 2010 | Categories: Art, Exhibitions | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Arco: The spirit of time

Magazine -> #16 Beautiful and well made

We analyse the balance between beauty and goodness in the contemporary art world with Rosina Gómez Baeza, Director of the International Art Fair ARCO in Madrid. We understand Arco’s values to be the search for quality, internationality and the creation of heritage. Do you believe there is a balance between beauty and goodness in the business ...

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Jan 10, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

The upbeat and downbeat of culinary composition

Magazine -> #24 Self Portrait

Creativity is not a continuum. There are times it waxes and times it wanes. One has to learn the art of stopping to look, enjoy and listen, and unravel those hesitant interludes. Like in prosody, when the stressed follows the unstressed, or in music, in that hardly perceptible pause when the downbeat heralds the upbeat. That’s where the essence o...

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Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Authors | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave A Comment »

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