24. Feb 2021
One of the most visited cities in the world - Palaces, plazas and warm-hearted people - Madrid has the lot!
Once upon a time it was the capital of the mightiest Empire on earth and is still adorned with the riches of those wondrous days. One of the simplest and most enjoyable things you can do when renting a holiday apartment in Madrid is ‘paseo’- simply stroll around the streets in the centre, soaking up the atmosphere as you come across amazing architecture and an abundance of interesting relics from its magnificent past.
Madrid lies at the highest altitude of any capital in Europe, at 667m above sea level and is a city that prides itself on its eclectic history that can be traced back over 2000 years. Today, it is also known for its expansive boulevards and abundant parks - rumour has it that there are more trees in Madrid than locals!
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19th Century European and American Art, is a visually rich experience comprising eighty-plus pieces from a time period in which Western nations radically transformed from agrarian cultures to industrial ones. This big change was reflected in the era’s aesthetic development, with visual art moving from traditional to modern, as evident in this show.
“In art,” notes Angelica Daneo, the DAM’s chief curator and curator of European art before 1900, “the nineteenth century began with a craze for antiquities and ended with a march toward abstraction, a shift so groundbreaking that there is hardly anything in comparison from centuries past.” The show has been installed on the second level of the Hamilton Building, where for many years the art of the American West was on display, but which will now be a permanent home for nineteenth-century paintings and sculptures.
Identity matters. It matters most amid flux, which the 21st Century is riddled with. Compromising the past and adding new components always knock on identity doors. Distinguishing the non-negotiable identity components from the negotiable gives us a head start. Our non-negotiable component remains Sonar Bangla, and all that that entails. We directly draw that term s romantic tones and drawn-out hues from Rabindranath Tagore, indirectly from others in our cultural pantheon. Their political manifestation was Bangladesh s 1971 birth. Ever since, negotiable components stole the limelight, exposing how mobile empathy is part of our tapestry.
No country can escape identity mobility. The Statue of Liberty, whose huddled masses tag (which invited the tired, poor, and those breathing to be free from the late 19th Century to a land of opportunity ), can barely be whispered today: still a louder Make America great again voice of a less welcoming country has not tarnished its land