http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/ 2008-05-14T11:35:09+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2008/05/post_104.html Matthew Bliss, Beyond Abstraction, May 3rd-June 2nd (extended until the 8th!) at Sharada Gallery, Rhinebeck, NY I met Matthew only once in a cold February day in New York City; my memory of this event is not an accurate but... Art claudia 2008-05-14T11:35:09+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2008/05/post_107.html Many years ago in Lisbon, my very British-crocheted-tie-and-tweed-jacket-type teacher Simon was telling me how he had gone back to London for a short break and how he made a fool of himself for not remembering the appropriate english terms for... Books claudia 2008-05-12T17:58:42+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2008/04/serenidad_vulma.html Help, my home is being invaded my Mexican memorabilia or how I learned about Lucha Libre and Kaliman, el hombre increíble.... Cartoons claudia 2008-04-09T19:53:00+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2008/04/post_106.html "Men, commonplace and ordinary, do not seem to me fit for the tremendous fact of eternal life. With their little passions, their little virtues and their little vices, they are well enough suited in the workday world; but the conception... Books claudia 2008-04-05T14:40:12+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2008/03/actually_this_m.html What do artist Jeff Koons and prostitute Ashley Alexandra Dupré have in common? Both can be had for a hefty price through the Emperors Club. Citing a report on Artnet, Le Monde's Harry Bellet discovers that the escort service, which... Art claudia 2008-03-26T15:28:38+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2008/03/post_103.html As it happens, I was present during one delirious afternoon when the children finally did catch on to the basic principles of number - the fact that with numbers you can count anything. Released from the schoolhouse, the excited children... Philosophy claudia 2008-03-04T15:01:20+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2008/03/visual_gregueri_1.html by Chema Madoz, spanish photographer (a Greguería, invented by Ramón Goméz de La Serna, is an aphorism based on a decontextualized metaphor, à la Dada)... Art claudia 2008-03-03T14:44:42+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2008/02/post_102.html Gibraltar Airport Runway Finally made the plane into Paris, Honey mooning down by the Seine. Peter Brown called to say, "You can make it O.K., You can get married in Gibraltar, near Spain". --The ballad of John and Yoko... Travel claudia 2008-02-19T01:06:12+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2008/02/sao_paulo_strip.html Last year, the Brazilian city of São Paulo outlawed billboards, logos, posters or any kind of advertisement in the streets or even on buses. (from the wonderful Flickr set by Tony de Marco documenting the process) This year, the famous... Art claudia 2008-02-09T21:44:47+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2008/01/free_associatio.html Tom Zé, "All the eyes" album, Brazilian Musician And when I brought the razor closer and with my fingers separated the borders of his anus, Estefania, my astonishment knew no bounds. My first thought was that Palinuro mistrusted me... Books claudia 2008-01-31T17:21:08+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2008/01/post_101.html But a great deal of nonsense is written about characters in fiction - from those who believe too much in character and from those who believe too little. Those who believe too much have an iron set of prejudices about... Art claudia 2008-01-27T21:22:01+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2007/12/random_2007_not.html Top 10 on my iTunes (#Play Count) &nbsp Adieu Mario (Extrait de Mon oncle) Jazz Trio Rousseau, Tortiller, Vignon What a Difference a Day Made Jazz Sarah Vaughan Life On Mars? Pop Seu Jorge Habla Con Hella Soundtrack Alberto... Music claudia 2007-12-31T19:33:34+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2007/12/no_fair.html I don't want to discuss politics. This lady belongs to my private set of female figures for whom I'm grateful for comforting me at that defining moment in your childhood when you realize your possibilities are substantially narrower because... Current Events claudia 2007-12-27T13:53:20+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2007/12/post_100.html Francis Bacon, Oedipus and the Sphinx (after Ingres), 1983 This Bacon is, for some unknown reason to me, hanging on a far off corner in the new Modern Art Museum in Lisbon. And that's about the extent of my... Art claudia 2007-12-26T21:20:33+00:00 http://claudia.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/2007/12/post_98.html Despite the flu and the rain, today is a very happy day and I just wanted to convert a blog post into a milestone. For personal future reference. Chagall 2007 has been great. 2008 will be even better.... Personal claudia 2007-12-20T15:24:00+00:00