On foot from Madrid to London

Posted by Jonny hough
On July 8, 2015

Brian Mooney navigates his way from the centre of Spain to the city of London. I have become alarmingly medieval in my approach to pilgrimage, believing that a pilgrim walk is not complete without the return leg. My conversion was quite sudden. Having walked to Rome in 2010, on my return I was challenged […]

Review: Ay! Eva Yerbabuena

Posted by Jonny hough
On March 28, 2015

By Bess Twiston-Davies Was it a foot? Or was it an instrument? Hard to tell, so fluid was the sound of Eva Yerbabuena’s mint-sharp zapateo. There was a seamless echo – foot, music, sound – all melding together into one. Mesmerising. This was Ay!, her 2013 choreography on a second visit to Sadler’s Wells. The […]

Inside a Start-up: What turns an idea into a business?

Posted by Jonny hough
On February 8, 2015

By Laura Gran Scroll further down for the Spanish translation Launching a new enterprise takes courage. The rewards can be great but the risks are high, and self-belief and determination are crucial to bring an idea to fruition. Laura Gran speaks to the founders of two new businesses which were established in Spain and in […]

Posted by Jonny hough
On February 1, 2015

Exhibition at the Pallant House Gallery, Chichester Review by Adela Gooch Two images stayed with me, from among the wealth of those on display, at an exhibition on the response of British visual artists to the Spanish Civil War currently at Chichester’s Pallant House Gallery. One, a striking lithograph, shows a foot wearing a traditional, […]

La Royal Society of Arts nombra a Fernando Gutiérrez Real Diseñador para la Industria Británica

Posted by Jonny hough
On November 29, 2014

El diseñador gráfico anglo–español Fernando Gutiérrez, que salió en la portada de La Revista en 2013, ha sido distinguido con el título Royal Designer for Industry (RDI) en una ceremonia que se celebró en la sede de la Royal Society of Arts (RSA), en Londres, la tarde del 27 de noviembre. La RSA rinde homenaje […]

Cuatrocientos años sin El Greco: el pintor de las lágrimas que no brotan

Posted by Jonny hough
On October 4, 2014

Por Nuria Reina Bachot Cualquiera que estos días decida darse un paseo por Toledo percibirá que la ciudad ha sido tomada desde hace meses por un cretense. Responde al nombre de Doménikos Theotokópoulos y amenaza con ocuparla hasta final de año, por lo menos. Esta metáfora recién sacada de la chistera no es solo un […]

Posted by Jonny hough
On May 10, 2014

By Bess Twiston-Davies Joana Granero Sánchez’s favourite cinema is the Ciné Lumière in South Kensington, London. She loves the “wide open entrance” and the broad sweep of the stairway up to the screening room. And she’s persuaded some of Spain’s biggest film stars and directors to march up its white-grey stairs – Marisa Paredes, […]

Entrevista con el Señor Federico Trillo-Figueroa, el embajador de España en el Reino Unido

Posted by Jonny hough
On March 23, 2014

By Bess Twiston-Davies Señor Trillo, muchas gracias por habernos concedido esta entrevista. ¿Cuáles son sus prioridades como embajador de España en el Reino Unido? El Gobierno del Presidente Rajoy [elegido por mayoría absoluta en las últimas elecciones] ha querido implementar un nuevo modelo de misión diplomática en el Reino Unido. Es un modelo nuevo, tanto […]

Paco de Lucia: The Death of a Musical Wizard

Posted by Jonny hough
On February 26, 2014

World music is in mourning following the unexpected death , aged 66, on a Mexican beach, of Paco de Lucia, one of the greatest guitarist of modern times, a truly musical wizard. Born Francisco Sanchez Gomez, to a Portuguese mother and an Andalucian father, de Lucia (a name he adopted professionally) spent his childhood in a poor neighbourhood […]

The Spanish Notebooks

Posted by Jonny hough
On January 16, 2014

By Albertina Torres In 2005, having lived in London for ten years, Albertina Torres moved with her husband, British-Canadian film maker and artist Zev Robinson, back to the small village in rural Valencia where she was born. Three years later, while walking through some nearby vineyards, Robinson came to the realization that many people would […]

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On foot from Madrid to London

Review: Ay! Eva Yerbabuena

Inside a Start-up: What turns an idea into a business?

Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War

La Royal Society of Arts nombra a Fernando Gutiérrez Real Diseñador para la Industria Británica

Cuatrocientos años sin El Greco: el pintor de las lágrimas que no brotan

London Spanish Film Festival – Interview with Joana Granero

Entrevista con el Señor Federico Trillo-Figueroa, el embajador de España en el Reino Unido

Paco de Lucia: The Death of a Musical Wizard

The Spanish Notebooks

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