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What is the connection (if any) between the symbol on this house in Sin, Huesca, and that of the Día supermarket chain?
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Sin really does exist. Here’s the sign:

One would obviously like to live in it, at least for a while, but owners are reluctant to sell.
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Pietre dure

There’s some excellent decorative stonework in the posher parts of Barcelona’s Eixample, but the Italians are in a different league.

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“When I arrived in Seseña there was just this guy with a donkey”

Paco “El pocero”–in Wales he’d be called Jones the Drains–is Francisco Hernando, the 57-year-old illiterate building a €6B, 13,500-house development, Spain’s largest ever, in a village near Madrid, whether the mayor likes it or not, and he doesn’t. The mayor, Manuel Fuentes, is receiving police protection, and Alfredo Urdaci wants to know what happened to […]

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Sinful alien redheads: Roda-soques and Nathalie Borgé

Recognising an urgent need, Barcelona’s excellent Institut Français has undertaken to explain love to the Catalans (translation Googlebotted for style, steam, and speed):

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Ramos strikes again

John Chappell writes that “Only [Rafael Ramos] could somehow establish a comparison between a 1930s realist painter and the Iraq war.” What, Barcelona’s leading illiterate plagiarist with an original idea? John might change his mind if he checked Jonathan Jones’ Guardian article, published last week. In fact, all that Ramos (search) adds to the sum […]

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Dirty dolls

Apparently the fine children’s illustrator Honor Appleton (1879-1951) was not such a good girl after all:

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(illustration for previous post)

The scan below (100K) is of the front cover of Gil de Rusena’s El Memorialista Català, cited in the previous post. All I know of the artist, “Robert”, is that he worked for Salvador Bonavia and other publishers on a number of other books, including folklore collections. Bonavia’s old shop is just down the road […]

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Cock and bull

I just don’t get it. While one bunch of nutters has finally managed to destroy Catalunya’s last Osborne bull for being too Spanish, another bunch of crazies is going round putting up things that look pretty damn Gallic to me:

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The way of all busts

Featuring Josep-Lluís Carod-Rovira, Uncle Joe Stalin and the Singh brothers from Mohali.

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spam art

Tom Coates has ’shopped that top-10 spam meme, Unrelenting C*cks Destroy Innocent Pussies.

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és tot una mentida (menys l’emoció humana, evidentment)

Aquesta foto d’en Marc, fet per un tub de cartró, és una imitació de Le faux miroir (1935) d’en Magritte, que possiblement estava pensant en la Porte fenêtre a Collioure (1914) d’en Matisse. Altre bon exemplar d’aquesta època és la Venus B (1933) de Kazimierz Podsadecki, i peces modernes que m’agraden inclouen aquesta foto anònima […]

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Dalí vs Turner (ii)

Naar aanleiding van een post over Dalí, vergeleek ik hem de andere dag met Turner. Nu blijkt dat dhr Snor echt een hekel had aan mijn landgenoot:
Een totale ramp, het hoogtepunt van romantische sentimentaliteit, en het tastbare bewijs dat het onmogelijk is om tegelijkertijd Engelsman en grote schilder te zijn.
Wat ik niet snap is hoe […]

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catalaanse grottenkunst

Veel prehistorische Catalaanse grottenkunst vertoont onmiskenbare Franse invloeden. Wat echter erg boeiend is aan dit slijmerige voorbeeld is dat het, al bewegend, precies voorspelt hoe lang het gaat duren voordat links weer aan de macht komt bij de noorderburen.
Gezien tijdens deze wandeling. Koop Slower Than a Snail (Hello Math Reader-Level 2):

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treinen: dalí vs turner

Toen ik in Londen werkte, nam ik af en toe een paar uurtjes vrij onder het smoesje van een vergadering met partners in Covent Garden. En dan kon ik mooi naar het National Gallery (nog steeds gratis) en Turner. En die kon nou echt een treintje schilderen.

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benvinguts a dalí central

Josep M Huertas en la Vanguardia d’ahir:
Quince años después de su muerte, el pintor Salvador Dalí entrará definitivamente en el nomenclátor de Barcelona. No será ni en la plaza Nova ni en la calle Duc de la Victòria, nombres que se habían barajado en distintos momentos. El alcalde Joan Clos ha aprobado que el nombre […]

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Edward Fennell writes: “Looking ahead to the height of summer, I must commend to sunseekers a place at the specialist course that the City Law School is to run in Barcelona… Those who successfully complete the programme will be awarded a certificate of achievement. Those who fail to complete will earn a suntan (cum laude) instead.” Let there be no misunderstanding: the Il·lustre Collegi d’Advocats de Barcelona is an extremely serious organisation and as such puts on fine choral concerts in St Whatsisname on Rambla de Catalunya. (Merci MM)

Didn’t expect this one: “Not inviting Catalan authors writing in Spanish was, in my opinion, a big error. They should have positioned the Catalan culture as an open culture with excellent contributions in our mother tongue and also in other languages like Spanish. They could have even tried to find Catalans who write in other languages like English, French, German or Swedish (actually, there is afew of us) and give us a booth too. What about me?, I write in English, am I not considered Catalan culture?, apparently not, at list, for Carod-Rovira.” All I need now is for Joan Laporta to resign, and life could be a dream.

All praise to Lenox over at Spanish Shilling, who got the shot without getting his head punched. “During the second half, perhaps inspired by a herd of goats being led past by a dusty looking old shepherd and a couple of dogs, the Cabras rose to even greater efforts and by the final whistle (and a few sums performed by the referee), it emerged that the local boys had won the day with 30 - 26.”

Today in 1565 the True Cross was taken and dipped in the sea in order to assuage the great drought. Doesn’t look like that’s going to be needed this year after all. (Kalebeul’s History of Barcelona now does moveable feasts, although not quite in the way it would like. It is also unsure to do with generalised descriptions of moveable feastdays that are however very clearly rooted in a particular time. If this description of Pentecost published in 1848 is assigned to Pentecost, 2008 it makes no historical sense, but if it is plonked on Pentecost, 1848 it makes no ritual sense, since Pentecost is moveable. What to do?)

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