Concerts included in the Infinite Music Cycle will be held at the Teatros del Canal of the Community of Madrid, within the framework of the XXIX International Festival of Sacred Art of the Community of Madrid. From March 17 to April 10 in the Red, Green rooms and Negra. Infinite Music CycleMARÍA BERASARTE + PEPE RIVERO TRÍO (Spain / Cuba) - City without sleep.
Every day we receive new information about Syrian refugees, but do we really know what their story is? The media shows, we see continuous debates about them even on social networks and opposing positions in the population about whether or not to help them and in what way To understand a little more one of the biggest problems of today and in all of contemporary history, we must go back to 1963, when this humanitarian crisis was born, which was magnified since 2011.
If in Palaeolithic art it is rare to find representations of scenes instead of individual figures, it is even less so that the protagonists of these scenes are birds instead of mammals, such as goats, deer or horses.In fact, in Europe prehistorians only they had so far located three scenes of Paleolithic art shared by birds and humans.
Emilio Lara (Jaén, 1968) has a doctorate in Anthropology, a degree in Humanities with an Extraordinary Award, a National End of Degree Award and a professor of Geography and History in Secondary Education. He has published several history books and dozens of articles in university magazines and educational centers. Spanish, Italian and French research.
An archaeological mission led by the University of Alexandria has unearthed several anchors from the Hellenistic era while surveying the Baghoosh area near Marsa Matruh, under the supervision of the Central Department of Submerged Antiquities of the Ministry of Antiquities. The head of the department, Ihab Fahmy , declared that the anchors were made of stone, iron and lead, and that they dated from the Hellenistic period and up to the 20th century.
The National Museum of Visual Arts (MNAV) and the Figari Museum, both dependent on the National Directorate of Culture of the MEC, together with the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) organize the exhibition "Pedro Figari: African nostalgia." exhibited at the MASP from December 14, 2018 to February 10, 2019 and in this instance it will be presented at the National Museum of Visual Arts (MNAV) from March 21 to May 26, 2019.
The General Directorate for Cultural Promotion, in collaboration with the Community of Madrid Social Housing Agency, opens a new call for the selection of 50 artists who may rent premises with reduced rents for the development of their professional activity, especially for workshops or regular work studies.
Thanks to the Assassin`s Creed franchise, we have been able to travel back in time and delve into different historical eras and civilizations, being a video game quite well achieved in terms of rigor with its reconstructions and stories. For a video game, the end result is very interesting, which, added to its playability, have made it become one of the most attractive games and from which we all expect new deliveries.
Ana María Velasco Molpeceres is a hired researcher and professor at the University of Valladolid. She has a degree in Journalism (UVa), a graduate in Art History (UNED) and in Geography and History (UNED). He has completed the Master in Communication Research as a Historical-Social Agent (UVa) and the Postgraduate Degree in History and Aesthetics of Cinematography (UVa).
Archaeologists working on the island of Corsica have discovered a new structure that is part of an Etruscan-Roman cemetery dating back to the 4th century BC. and until the 3rd century AD, in a statement issued by the Institut national de recherches arquéologiques préventives (Inrap), this cemetery was discovered after the construction of a new house on the site.
One of the most well-known facets of Hercules, in addition to his incredible strength and his near-immortality, is his loving capacity, he is known for dozens of lovers, including the 50 daughters of King Thespian, who were given as an offering to the demigod in exchange. that he hunted the formidable Lion of Nemea, one of the 12 labors of Hercules.
The Harvard Library Bulletin publishes in its latest issue the edition and introduction by Emilio Martínez Mata (University of Oviedo) and Clark Colahan (Whitman College) of the manuscript of an unknown theatrical recreation of Don Quixote in the England of the Enlightenment. Preserved in the Houghton Library of Harvard University, it contains a play by James Wadham Whitchurch, entitled Don Quixote, A Comedy (1774-1776), never printed or performed, of which there was no news.
Andreas Bauer was a German engineer who developed the first industrial steam printing press together with Friedrich Koening, who invented the technology and sold it to The Times in 1814.Bauer was born in Stuttgart on August 18, 1783 and studied mechanics and optics, before study mathematics in Tübingen, 40 km south of his hometown.
Faced with the sad events recently experienced in Paris, where an emblematic World Heritage symbol was affected by a terrible fire, the Association for the Dissemination and Promotion of World Heritage of Spain, ADIPROPE, wants to first of all regret this serious event as well as show solidarity with the French people and warn about the need to increase care, security and prevention of our World Heritage after the fire of the Notre Dame Cathedral.
A million years ago, the Earth's climate abruptly altered for reasons that are still unknown. Large masses of continental ice accumulated in the polar regions, glacial cycles became longer and colder - the most intense in the world. the history of the Quaternary - and as a consequence, the global climate system was altered on a planetary scale.
A team of Chinese archaeologists has found a pot of 2,500-year-old eggs in a tomb in Changzhou, Jiangsu province. According to the report provided by experts, the eggs were found in a clay pot along with other ceramic containers. , pots and plates, in a tomb in the village of Shangyang.
In 2013, Matthew Borths, a postdoctoral student at the National Science Foundation (USA), found in a drawer the fossil remains of a specimen unknown to date: the Simbakubwa kutokaafrika. His study of the remains, carried out together to paleontologist Nancy Stevens, from the University of Ohio (USA).
A group of archaeologists discovered on a private property in Cobán, Alta Verapaz (Guatemala), more than 400 fragments of statuettes and molds to make them, in what is considered the largest Mayan statuette workshop ever found. site with heavy machinery when they located several ceramic fragments, so they contacted Brent Woodfill, an archaeologist at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, United States, to examine what they had found at the site, called Aragon.
Scientists Jesús Rodríguez, Ana Mateos and Guillermo Zorrilla, from the National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH), have just published a study in the Journal of Human Evolution in which they analyze the cannibalistic behavior of the Atapuerca populations from ago a million years ago, the results of which show that anthropophagy was a profitable strategy for Homo antecessor.
Note: The information will be expanded as we learn about more programs. The role of museums in society is changing. Although in the past they were considered static institutions, museums are reinventing themselves to be more interactive, flexible, adaptable and mobile, focusing on the audience and targeting their communities.
