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CASAVARIA TO PUBLISH BOOK II OF DON QUIJOTE, IN SPANISH Casavaria Publishing, which publishes Sentido.tv, is soon to release part two, or book II of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes. Part I was published earlier this year in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of its initial publication, and of four centuries of amazing worldwide success. [Full Story] ESSAYS & REVIEWS... 'THE HOURS' & THE MOMENT The film The Hours is not about what most people seem to think. The common wisdom is that this is a film about a writer, and about the effects of her writing over time... or else that it's about an emotional struggle that is transferred from person to person through a series of more or less tenuous or intimate relationships... or that it has to do with the victimization of innocent and fragile souls by a harsh and careless world. But I think it probes much deeper than any of the above crises, and touches a fundamental problem of human equilibrium, that is, an existential balance based in the enigma of an elusive raison d'être. [Full Text] AVEDON'S PREGNANT SELVES Avedon's work itself seems to be structured around a fundamental 'island place' of individual being. The subject is starkly portrayed, in silence and asymmetry, against the abstraction of a white background. The whole of an individual's life experience seems visible through the features into which he or she has developed by way of that experience. [Full Text] |
BESTIA GERMINAL: YVES TANGUY EN BARCELONA La exposición comienza con un texto que sitúa la obra de Tanguy en "una especie de matriz original donde mar y madre son una misma cosa", y al entrar nos encontramos de manera chocante con todo lo opuesto: los juegos de un niño caprichoso carente de toda paciencia artística —se puede decir que no es culpa del artista, todos tenemos derecho a un proceso de aprendizaje, a la experimentación y a los caprichos del artesano, o tal vez no eran para exhibirse estas obras—, y señala algo importante en la obra de Tanguy: la prisa por terminar, la impaciencia ante la idea de una obra posible. [Texto completo] PINTURA DE JENNY ALFONSO RELOVA Jenny Alfonso Relova es pintora, de raíces cubanas, que radica actualmente en Francia. Su obra consta de una serie de materias en conjunto (inclusas el café, la arena y líquenes); su obra multiplica los niveles de experiencia que pueden acudir en la vista de un cuadro, y sugieren un sensualismo en la percepción que enriquece... [Página de la artista] VANDALS SHOULD NOT DICTATE CULTURE OR BE THE MEASURE OF CURRENT EVENTS We are living with a general malaise on all sides in these times, and we are treating it with too much aplomb and not enough courage. Three nights ago in Barcelona, Spain, one of the great iconic works of the city was attacked by a group of senselessly angry (as if by profession) young people, an entirely destructive and inadequate expression of something that is perhaps more ego-driven than anyone suspects. [Full Story] PHILIPPINES: 'AROMA, LIGHT, COLOR, SONG' A low mumbling of congestion, cars, buses, bikes and jeepneys harmonize with pedestrians in urban chorus. Negotiating its way through a mixture of cooking smoke and tropical urban air, the salt of the seas soak clothes and voices alike. Sounds hover through the air under a pungent midday sun that shines over this country of more than 7,000 islands. Tempering brisk spirits and making strangers into instant friends, a humid atmosphere makes for willing faces, as a signature of Manila, the Philippines' capital city. [Country Page]
EXPOSICIÓN DE MARCO HDEZ 9 diciembre 2006 :: Joseph Robertson El artista vive no un vuelo por otros mundos, no un éxtasis arrasador que funda naciones, no un ciclo sinfónico de soles derritiéndose. El artista vive la vida de este mundo, el artificio de las construcciones humanas y la autenticidad de lo que duelen o fascinan sus límites. Vive un océano de contactos y acercamientos, pero como con cualquiera, esos roces y tributos no se alejan más de la distancia de la mano, de los sentidos, y del fenómeno de un individuo que enfrenta el hecho de estar presente, deshilachando el tejido del todavía no. [Más...] CUENTOS AFROCUBANOS (PATAKINES) Los Patakines son un conjunto de narraciones orales de origen africano, que han sido transcritas al castellano en los rituales de la liturgia sagrada afrocubana. El editor y compilador, Radamés Molina, presentará esta edición de la tradición de los Patakines en un evento de la muestra "La Isla Flotante", organizada y dirigida por el proyecto Café Sentido, en Barcelona, en febrero del 2007. [Exposición]
NEW ANTHOLOGY OF RIZAL'S PLAYS, POEMS, IN ORIGINAL SPANISH José Rizal was the father of the Philippine cause for independence from Spain. His poetic works show a marked interest for the improvement of the human condition and serious politicla meditations. While confined to Fort Santiago, in Manila, he penned at the end of his life his last work in verse, "My Last Farewell", which is prized for its coherent and intimate look at the human condition. Now, a new anthology, created in collaboration between New Jersey-based publisher Casavaria and Barcelona-based publisher Linkgua, a new anthology contains both of Rizal's plays and a selection of his most prized poetry. [Full Story] WORLD'S LANGUAGES DISAPPEARING AT ALARMING RATE The world's three most widely spoken languages, English, Spanish and Mandarin, each enjoy more than 450 million speakers worldwide. These languages are increasingly useful for international business and for diplomacy in an interconnected global society. But languages with fewer than 10 million speakers are now considered "minor" and many long-standing cultures are in danger of disappearing, as only a handful of people remain who can speak them. [Full Story] 'CROCODILE HUNTER' STEVE IRWIN KILLED BY STINGRAY Steve Irwin, world-renowned conservationist and television personality, has died in a rare accident involving a puncture wound from a large stingray's barbed tail. Stingrays are not generally aggressive animals and use their barbs only in self-defense, meaning Irwin should not have been in any immediate peril. The incident occurred while filming documentary footage for an episode of his 8-year-old daughter's new program, off Port Douglas, in northern Queensland. [Full Story] LUCCA: ELEGANT, DEFIANT, WALLED & ENDURING As you approach the city by train, you find it is nestled in the green Tuscan countryside, but unassuming, unimposing, a humble quiet city that seems expert in giving back more than it asks. The city's medieval walls are still intact, and the top of the walls is parkland comprising a four kilometer hike around the city center. [City Page] PARMA: SAGE, SAVORY & URBANE Famed for its cured ham and zesty cheese, Parma is a gracious Italian city. There is a little bit of everything here, whether your tastes are musical or historical, Parma is an ideal place for a short weekend or a perfect day trip from nearby Bologna. Easily accessible by train, Parma offers an array of delights for the pedestrian, and was named by French newspaper Le Monde as the best city for living in Italy. [City Page]
THE HIDDEN ALLURE OF 'THE DA VINCI CODE' Dan Brown's bestselling novel is not, contrary to popular opinion, primarily about conspiracy theories. Conspiracies do figure in the plot, as they have in his other books, but they are too simplistic an explanation for the popularity of the book, too much a device to explain what in the substance of the book attracts special attention among readers. [Full Story] BOLOGNA: 70 KM OF PORTICOES & A STUDIED RESISTANCE Less well-known than nearby Tuscany with its myriad of famous hillscapes and medieval towns, the region of Emilia Romagna to the east boasts its great and complicated capital: Bologna. A town known for hearty cuisine and a leftist politics, Bologna is full of things to see and do apart from eating. It is an under-toured historical city, ripe for rich days of discovery. [City Page]
DAY OF THE BOOK, DAY OF BARCELONA'S SANT JORDI The Dia de Sant Jordi —as Cataláns would have it— marks both the feast day of the patron saint of Barcelona, and the increasingly international Day of the Book, which falls on the 23rd of April, in honor of the two great pioneers of modern literature, Cervantes and Shakespeare, who died on that date in the year 1616. [Full Story] FIRENZE: VALLEY OF GENIUS & REBIRTH Florence (Firenze in Italian) is a city like no other: a small provincial capital with the attractions and amenities of a major metropolis, but laced with the most stunning array of artistic creations available anywhere. It is a bustling cultural and tourism center, feeding the appetite of a region for a constant inflow of new visitors and for the preservation of its golden age. [City Page] BRAZIL INAUGURATES WORLD'S FIRST FULLY DEDICATED LANGUAGE MUSEUM Brazil has launched the world's first museum devoted solely to the history and evolution of a language: Portuguese, the national language since the colonial era and independence. The museum is located in the Station of Light, a train facility built by the British at the turn of the 20th century, and a national architectural landmark. [Full Story] TARRAGONA: GRACE OF TIME & DAYLIGHT If you approach the city by train, you might be lucky enough to find a glistening blue sea to your left and the austere keep of the Roman amphitheatre rising on the hill to your right. It's a city with a unique and casual knack for such cohabitation, the ancient inlaid into a thriving modern city, once the seat of Roman colonial authority and trade in northeast Hispania, now Catalunya. [City Page] ABANICO: PHILIPPINE IMPRESSIONS Another current in time runs over this landscape, through the people. 'There is a different rhythm here'. This mantra greets me as I take my first breath of tropic metropolitan air. 'There is a different rhythm here'. This I hear from every quarter, from every mouth. It seems to be a national chorus, introducing me to the difference, without knowing how to describe it. 'It may take time', they tell me. I have already begun to succumb. [Keep reading] VALENCIA: SUNSOAKED ENLIGHTENING Spain's third largest city, Valencia is the bustling capital of the autonomous region called the Comunidad Valenciana. The surrounding landscape is laced with geometrically plotted orchards and orange groves and is famed for its agricultural richness and productivity. Throughout its varied history, Valencia has been ruled, like many Spanish cities, by a number of distinct civilizations, and now displays a commitment to blending the ancient with the modern in creating a city with an energy like no other. [City Page] CÓRDOBA: JEWEL OF LEARNING ANCIENT & NEW Córdoba was the preeminent city in Moorish Spain: educated, wealthy, populous, refined. The city was the intellectual capital of the Caliphate of Al-Andalus. It was here that Maimonides and Averroes dispensed their great philosophical works, where algebra was developed, and where European philosophy was rescued and restored to prominence by eager Moorish students and translators. [City Page] LONDON: QUIET LUXURY OF TIMELESS CULTURE London is often thought of as one of the world's great capitals, seething with millions upon millions from every corner of the world, known for its labyrinthine transit network and its multicultural makeup. Its museums, many of the best of which are free to the public, every day, stand as some of the most important reservoirs of cultural history in the world. [City Page] CRAFTING INVISIBLE FIRES The streets around Leicester Square were laced with street performers of surprising quality. I would later come to know this is not uncommon in the center of London. In particular, I found a string quartet enthralling. They were playing Beethoven and Bach, and within a few minutes had gathered a large crowd around them. They could easily have been playing in any concert hall, but the acoustics of the street and its rushing throng were the site of their sound, and they used it just as well... [Full Story] SAGUNT: BRAVE CITY OF ANCIENTS Sagunt is today a town little known outside of its surrounding region. It is an urban environment, nestled between the coastal hills and the Mediterranean, but far enough from the popular resort towns that one can still travel there without the relentless fanfare of major tourist sites. [City Page] NEW YORK: CITY FOR ALL SEASONS In this consummate cosmopolitan metropolis, more than half of its residents speak a language other than English in their homes, and it boasts one of the world's most vibrant cultural economies. The city of New York spends more money funding the arts than any other institution of government in the US. Winter tourism thrives as people come from around the globe to take in the famed ice-skating, performances and seasonal baubles... [City Page] BARCELONA: "THE GREAT ENCHANTRESS" Blessed with luxuriant geography, Barcelona is situated between two rivers, along the Mediterranean coast, and buttressed by the Collserrola massif. The landscape is naturally verdant and lush, and the present day city includes many barrios which used to be farming villages. Visitors can look out over the entire valley from Mount Tibidabo (a reference to the Biblical temptation of Jesus by the Devil, saying "this I give to you"). [City Page] CATALÁN SUPREME COURT RULES GOVERN MUST PROVIDE BILINGUAL INSTRUCTION For the 3rd time over the span of roughly 1 year, the Supreme Court of Catalunya has ruled that the Generalitat must provide bilingual instruction —the option to study in Castilian instead of Catalán— at least until the age of 8 in primary schools. [Full Story] POLITICS OF LANGUAGE IN DIVERSE SPAIN Spain's opposition PP has accused the regional government of Catalunya of "investigating, inspecting and sanctioning" businesses that put signs exclusively in Castilian (the language commonly known as "Spanish", though it originates in the central Spanish region of Castile, and other regions use other languages), according to La Vanguardia newspaper. [Full Story] COMPLEX FOODS FROM SCRATCH: UNABRIDGED AUTHENTICITY If you're looking for an experience of authenticity, try making original, expressive foods from scratch. Make the base ingredients, select and refine the trimmings, do something not prescribed by recipe, in print or on television. Break the rules, waste some time, and put a little feeling into food preparation, and you'll find the art of eating makes more sense. [Full Story] LONDON'S FAMED ROUTEMASTER BUS RUNS LAST ROUTE The author of a book about the beloved bus design, mourned the passing of "a prime slice of vernacular". Londoners on ultra-busy Oxford High Street cheered each of the last public appearances of the Routemasters running on the 159 route, jeering the first appearance of the new bus on that same route. [Full Story] XAMPANYERIA: the Cava Bar It was one of those rare places that had no name but seemed to mean everything. We called it The Cava Bar because the product was cava, or Catalán champagne, and because it was the only one we knew. We haunted our nameless dominion through many an afternoon. It was our cherished nexus, a territory for the exposition of a certain cordial, intuitive madness. That of living without place. To call it a haunt does not imply that there was anything looming in the deep, there in the recesses of a champagne bar. It was, simply put, a place frequently visited by a group of expatriates. [Keep reading] JENNINGS DEATH IS LOSS TO JOURNALISM Peter Jennings, top news anchor at ABC News in the US, died on Sunday after delivering TV news in five separate decades. Jennings, a long-time smoker, had been suffering from lung cancer, having only announced four months ago he would seek treatment. Jennings was part of the group of three trusted broadcasters who headed the national evening news for the three big US networks, and his death may mark the true end of an era of broadcast news and journalism as a profession. [Full Story] 'TREE OF LIFE' MAKES USED WEAPONS INTO SIGN OF HOPE In the wake of Mozambique's long civil war, lasting from 1976 to 1992, a group of artists set up the Transforming Arms into Tools project in the nation's capital, Maputo. Sculptors use decomissioned weapons, and parts of weapons to make art, expressing the possibility of finding new ways to secure and advance civil society. [Full Story] LIVE 8 BRINGS MILLIONS TOGETHER TO HEAR ONE MESSAGE The Live 8 "global concert event", intended to raise awareness of the struggle of tens of millions of people in the world's poorest nations, just to survive, brought millions into the streets to hear concerts in 9 nations, and tens of millions of viewers on TV and online together to hear its message. The message was succinct and hopeful: Make Poverty History. [Full Story] UNJUST RENDERING: REVERSING THE LIE OF AN OBITUARY AGAINST DERRIDA A great and resonant thinker dies, and a great and resonant newspaper publishes an obituary dismissing his work as destructive and "abstruse". It is an unjustifiable communicative travesty. When Jacques Derrida passed away, in October of this year, the New York Times wrote that his work was an attempt to undermine Western culture. The obituary was full of factual errors and infected with a hard-line bias against complex and rigorous thought... [Full Story] TWO LINGUISTS STAND AS LAST BASTION OF FADING CALIFORNIA LANGUAGE MotherJones reports this month that the 82-year-old linguist, William Shipley, is one of the last handful of speakers of Mountain Maidu, a language spoken by aboriginal Californians. He is passing his knowledge of the language to a young "protégé", who is actually of Maidu descent and seeks to return the language to use among his people. Shipley has devoted many years of his life to the study and propagation of knowledge about Maidu. According to Dashka Slater's report, "He developed a system for writing the language and has published a grammar, a dictionary, and a lyrical translation of Maidu myths and stories. He is now one of the last living speakers of the language... [Full Story] LANGUAGES ENDANGERED WORLDWIDE As many as half of all known languages may die out during the next century. That figure is already staggering, but paired with the estimate of 6,800 believed to be spoken today, it represents a looming cultural catastrophe. In a world where languages with less than 10 million speakers are considered to be "minor" or "obscure" languages by many people, the world's native and regional languages are threatened. 154 native languages still spoken in North America, compared with the estimated 300 which would have been spoken 500 years ago. When languages are lost, the cultural fabric of a people or a continent can shift dramatically. Daniel Everett, of the University of Manchester, describes this loss in his report "From Threatened Languages to
In such a climate of community breakdown, the larger cultural fabric also suffers this loss of overall coherence, along with the loss of language-specific concepts, philosophies and solutions. [Full Story] MULTILINGUAL SOCIETIES SHOW NEW DYNAMISM Both North America and Europe are becoming increasingly mixed societies, drawing from large pools of legal and illegal immigrants, many of whom are migrating to countries whose predominant language they themselves do not speak. The US, for example, is the world's fifth largest Spanish-speaking country, with some 35 to 40 million native speakers. In New York City, more than half of all residents speak a language other than English in their homes. [Full Story]
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