July 19, 2012
La Sagrada Familia de la discordia | Edición impresa | EL PAÍS
La Sagrada Familia de la discordiaLa intervención del escultor Subirachs en el templo de Gaudí motiva una protesta de artistasLOURDES MORGADES Barcelona 8 JUL 1990Archivado en: Escultura Iglesias Monumentos Josep María Subirachs Edificios religiosos Barcelona Ayuntamientos Patrimonio histórico Patrimonio eclesiástico Cataluña Arquitectura Artes plásticas Administración local Patrimonio cultural Iglesia católica España Arte Cristianismo Administración pública Religión CulturaRecomendar en Facebook0Twittear0Enviar a LinkedIn0Enviar a TuentiEnviar a MenéameEnviar a EskupEnviarImprimirLa discordia y la polémica han perseguido al edificio catalán más conocido en el mundo -el templo de la Sagrada Familia en Barcelona- casi desde el inicio de su construcción. La Sagrada Familia, proyectada por Antoni Gaudí, ocupó los últimos 16 años de vida del arquitecto y quedó inacabada. Un patronato privado emprendió -mediante cuestaciones públicas y a cargo de otros arquitectos- su terminación, fuertemente cuestionada en medios artísticos y culturales barceloneses. El último episodio conflictivo se inició con el encargo del patronato al escultor Josep Maria Subirachs para que realizara las esculturas de una fachada del templo. La intervención de Subirachs motivó nuevas protestas, especialmente la manifestación pública convocada para el próximo martes por la revista cultural catalana de vanguardia Artics.MÁS INFORMACIÓNSubirachs: “Las polémicas pasan, las obras quedan”Los promotores de la revista cultural Artics, que acaba de publicar su último número, definen como una “protesta civil” el acto convocado para el martes 10 de julio, que reunirá a Intelectuales y artistas barceloneses ante la fachada de la Pasión del templo de la Sagrada Familia, donde trabaja Josep María Subirachs.
via La Sagrada Familia de la discordia | Edición impresa | EL PAÍS.
June 24, 2012
Artists of tomorrow rediscover paint’s potential
Encouraging Guardian article on end of year exhibitions in UK schools of art in : http://gu.com/p/38gfn
June 23, 2012
Richard Long: ‘It was the swinging 60s. To be walking lines in fields was a bit different’
I saw this Guardian article and thought to share it: http://gu.com/p/38bvh
May 15, 2012
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | The white heat of Wilson
The white heat of Wilson A POINT OF VIEWBy Brian WaldenBrian Walden looks at the phases of fascination and disillusion with “new visions”.When I was first taught history it was done in a most enjoyable way. Personalities dominated the subject.Great figures were discussed in the lessons and the schoolbooks were full of kings and queens, who were often violent and impulsive. I learnt quite a lot about bygone centuries, because historical tales were so entertaining.
May 10, 2012
Spain’s white elephants | World news | The Guardian
White elephants
• City of Culture, Santiago de Compostela
Construction of two of the six buildings for a huge culture campus in the capital city of the Galicia region has been postponed indefinitely. The cost of the scheme, designed by Peter Eisenman, is €300m (£257m) so far.
• Huesca airport
Built four years ago at a cost of €40m to bring tourists to the northern province’s ski resorts, it received just four commercial passenger flights in the three months to August.
• AVE train station, Guadalajara
Only 60 passengers a day use the high-speed trains at this station built in farmland six miles from the Madrid dormitory city of Guadalajara. Commuters say the service is too expensive and too far out of town.
• Castellón airport
Formally inaugurated in March, with a promise that it would start receiving passengers by September, this €150m airport on the east coast has now put back its first commercial flights to April next year at the earliest.
via Spain’s €44m Niemeyer centre is shut in galleries glut | World news | The Guardian.
May 10, 2012
Spain’s €44m Niemeyer centre is shut in galleries glut | World news | The Guardian
Spain’s €44m Niemeyer centre is shut in galleries glut
Squabble over spending on hotels, trips and meals at complex designed by celebrated Brazilian architect
Share 366
Giles Tremlett in Madrid
guardian.co.uk, Monday 3 October 2011 18.50 BST
The Niemeyer Centre in Avilés, northern Spain, had been compared to the Guggenheim in Bilbao. Photograph: Rafa Rivas/AFP/Getty Images
A dazzling €44 million (£37.7m) arts centre in the northern Spanish city of Avilés is to close after six months amid political squabbling as the country asks itself what to do with a glut of glittering new museums.
The Niemeyer centre, which was designed by the celebrated 103-year-old Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, was intended to have the same impact on the industrial Cantabrian sea port as the Guggenheim museum has had on Bilbao, 150 miles to the east.
via Spain’s €44m Niemeyer centre is shut in galleries glut | World news | The Guardian.
Mark Burry
My activities as Founding Director of Swinburne University of Technology's Smart Cities Research Institute can be followed via the 'Smart Cities Research Institute' link below.
This site does not purport to talk for Swinburne University of Technology and its overarching research mission - also linked below.
Smart Cities Research Institute
Watch this space...
Swinburne University of Technology
MARK BURRY 
August 1, 2012
0 Comments