Of Concrete and Spirit: The Monumentality of The Brutist

By eMe Alonso

1-minute read. There are films that are simply projected on a screen. And then there are others —like Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist— that are inhabited, like a bare building facing winter. This is not a film: it’s a manifesto with tectonic ambition. In an age of liquid cinema, Corbet dares to pour concrete. Adrien Brody…

Rediscovering the City from Above: Art on New York’s High Line

By gregorioalonso

1-minute read. In our ongoing exploration of spaces where contemporary art merges with the urban fabric, there are places that stand out not only for their beauty or aesthetic vision, but for their power to transform a city from within. One such place is New York’s High Line—a former elevated freight rail line turned into…

What If Our Entire Culture Were a Perfectly Calculated Illusion?

By eMe Alonso

Reading time: 1 minute. What happens when culture, instead of liberating us, lulls us to sleep? When art, far from opening up new horizons, becomes a repeated, predictable, domesticated product? In the editorial “The Unbearable Condition of Our Current Culture”, published in ARTNOBEL Inspiration Review of Contemporary Art, the mechanisms of the contemporary culture industry…

The Church Without Shadows: Where Light Becomes a Temple

By eMe Alonso

Reading time: 1 minute. In Chengdu, China, the Church Without Shadows — a creation by Shanghai Dachuan Architects — redefines the sacred with an almost ethereal structure made of thousands of white aluminum beams. Completed in just two months in 2019, this translucent church casts no shadows: light passes through it, inhabits it, and transforms…

Six essential books on the magic of creating

By eMe Alonso

Creativity, that intangible spark that drives us to create, is the essence that connects all artistic disciplines, from music to the visual arts. But what does it really mean to be creative? How can we cultivate that capacity for constant innovation? In a world full of distractions, the answer is not always easy to find,…

Intelligences: A Dialogue Between Eras and Knowledge

By eMe Alonso

Have you ever stopped to think about how human intelligence and technology intertwine in our daily lives? “Intelligences. The Dilemma of Human Power: From Artificial Hallucinations to the Collective Imagination” is a unique exhibition that invites you to explore this fascinating connection. In a world where the line between the human and the artificial is…

World Theatre Day: Celebrating the Magic of the Stage

By eMe Alonso

On March 27, World Theatre Day is celebrated, a day dedicated to reflecting on the art of performance and the cultural significance of this medium in our lives. But where did this celebration come from? This day, established in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute (ITI), is commemorated in honor of the birth of Jean…

When color takes shape. LO TIENES QUE VER

By eMe Alonso

The Fundación Juan March presents a bold exhibition, «Lo tienes que ver. La autonomía del color en el arte abstracto», which becomes a vibrant tribute to the freedom and transcendence of color in the art of the 20th and 21st centuries. From February 28th to June 8th, the institution offers a unique exploration of the…