I could not learn anything about this young contemporary Chinese painter, except this brief text on their website: “Xi Pan, born in Wenzhou, China, began her first art studies in 1989 at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, China. One year later she transferred to the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts where...
Flavian Amphitheatre. Photo: Andreas Tille. Wikipedia. A widespread myth is that the disappearance of the monuments of ancient Rome was caused because they were destroyed by barbarians. Generally, however, they did not. The Romans themselves had more responsibility than anyone in the destruction of their own city. Imperial Rome had a population of over...
A girl by the window (oil on canvas, 2000). A powerpoint is rolling on the internet with the paintings of this hyperrealistic style artist. It would be that his work is interesting to people. Iman Maleki (1976, Tehran) started to learn painting at age 15, under the master Morteza Katouzian, considered the greatest realist...
Ofra Haza was one of the most popular singers of Israel in the 80s. Yemeni Jewish descent, she began her career playing music in Yemen and never lost that influence, even when she evolved into a pop singer and introduced electric instruments in her recordings. Ofra Haza is really one of the best examples...
In the article Great lesbian songs(*) the author tells us her five favorite songs on lesbianism. Gloria, the Patti Smith version Starpower, de Sonic Youth (sung by Kim Gordon) All the Things She Said, by t.A.T.u. Girls and Boys, by Blur Green Door, by Jim Lowe, also by Frankie Vaughan and Shakin’ Stevens Keep...
Photo: Días del futuro pasado The rain stick (in spanish, palo de lluvia) is a musical instrument consisting of a tube made from a cactus or a trunk of bamboo, into which are stuck bamboo or wood sticks or cactus spines, forming a spiral that extends throughout. The tube is filled with seeds or...