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...Stay: the Mazzeis converted the borgo at Fonterutoli into a charming B&B proposition several years ago. The handful of rooms and apartments are elegant-trad, clean-lined and pretty....
...February Art ‘On the Reverse’, Museo del Prado This exhibition explores the “B-side of pictorial support”, turning major artworks around....
...The atmosphere is part British Museum, part monastic B&Q....
...A block known as 43-ITT produces 55,000 barrels a day of oil — about 12 per cent of the country’s total of 480,000 b/d — according to national oil company Petroecuador....
...After 1898, when Spain lost its colonies of Cuba, the Philippines and Puerto Rico in a war with the US still remembered as “the Disaster”, the author Ramón del Valle-Inclán declared bitterly, “Spain is a...
...February 10 to April 6; further information here Jazz in the Gardens, Hard Rock Stadium One of the world’s key live jazz and R&B festivals returns for its 17th edition, with soul, funk, Afrobeats and gospel...
...B&B from €200, tenutadipaternostro.it Row with the flow in Venice Venice has its two Biennales, and its Festival del Cinema....
...The deluxe design company B&B Italia, meanwhile, has mined its past by offering a reappraisal of the Bambole chair series....
...The playlist – Benny Goodman one minute, Eric B & Rakim the next – is always a pleasant surprise....
...“So we changed direction, to be realistic, to Plan B: to convert the building into residential with commercial,” says KKH chair Josep Maria Farré....
...Guests will stay at TC’s beautiful Rincón del Socorro estancia, in the heart of Iberá, where the jaguar project is managed....
...But, as with fashion and accessories, many of the city’s most interesting makers and blenders are to be found well off the familiar Via Condotti/Via del Babuino route....
...Maria Shollenbarger Colour, from €80. Haircuts, from €60....
...Despite its unofficial status as capital of the Costa del Sol, Málaga itself was mostly bypassed by tourists, who headed from the airport directly to the villas and beaches of Marbella and Fuengirola....
...I love staying at the Riva Lofts, which is a cool, urban B&B by the Arno, 15 minutes’ walk from the city centre, with incredible views....
...On the back it had the text “Nobody Owns Me” by Felix Gonzalez-Torres. Felix was a close friend of mine and the T-shirt designer Agnès B is also a friend....
...On an industrial estate in El Viso del Alcor, a town half an hour’s drive east of Seville, I’m watching as Antonio González, founder of the Cerámica Artística factory, uses a stencil and a fabric pouch filled...
...Details The writer was a guest of Annie B’s Spanish Kitchen. Its Ultimate Almadraba Tour costs from €1,450 including four nights at the hotel Casa del Califa and the trip with Nature Tarifa....
...For its director, María Mercedes González, the museum’s reincarnation reflects both the “transformation of the city, and the growth of Colombia’s art scene in the last 15 years”....
...There is even talk of a “boom” in contemporary Colombian art — a notion that María Mercedes González, director of Medellín’s Museum of Modern Art (MAMM), dismisses....
...Though Cecil B DeMille’s The Affairs of Anatol (1921) features a delightful dark-eyed vamp, Satan Synne (Bebe Daniels), who leads the feckless hero into her boudoir (the “Devil’s Cloister”, stocked with...
...The Venezuelan Daniel González dispenses with Franco’s reticence and formal sophistication to chronicle the violence of urban change....
...‘Olafur Eliasson: Contact’, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, December 17-February 16 2015, fondationlouisvuitton.fr Photographs: Ulf Svane, María del Pilar García Ayensa Studio, Chris Young...
...“It’s a typical criticism from someone who is accustomed to being the exclusive advisor,” Maria do Socorro, a political analyst at the University of São Paulo, told beyondbrics....
...… In the Beginning Was the Sea, by Tomás González, translated by Frank Wynne, Pushkin Press, RRP£12 The long-overdue translation of this modern Colombian classic tells the story of a bohemian couple...
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