From typicallyspanish.com
Culture Round Up - Thurs Oct 27th 2005
By h.b.
Oct 27, 2005 - 12:19 PM
The Maravillas Theatre in Madrid opens its doors again after being dark for five years. The last act to perform there before the city hall ordered the theatre’s closure in 1999 were the humorists Faemino and Cansado, and they will reopen the building now. Part of the old theatre is now a hotel, but the rest, in the central Malasaña area of the capital is still a theatre with capacity for an audience of 400.
A new Spanish Dictionary of Americanisms has brought together more than 100,000 entries as 22 representatives from the Academies of the Spanish language are meeting in Tordesillas in Valladolid to discuss how best to publish the work. It’s hoped the project will be completed by 2008 and be made available to the 450 million Spanish speakers in the world the year after that. A computer robot program is meanwhile trawling Spanish sites on the Internet trying to find where English, or American, is used.
Some observations – the word bitch in English and Bicho in Spanish – in Spain it can mean several things but not it’s English equivalent, while in Puerto Rico the bitch is back.
Be careful when you say ‘pico’ in Chile – Here in Spain the word can mean several things – Tres y pico, would be a bit past the hour, but in Chile the word is instantly recognised as a penis.
Following our news yesterday of the new Picasso Ceramics exhibition in the Picasso Museum in Málaga, news comes from London that 734,000 € was raised in an auction at Sotheby’s of 92 Picasso ceramics. Most of the works under the hammer were from the artists later years.
London photographer Jo Spence has a show in Spain for the first time. It can be found at the Contemporary Art centre MACBA in Barcelona. Spence lived from 1934 to 1992 and took social photography and is well known for images of the sixties.
The first festival of Collective Photography organised by the ABC Newspaper awarded first prize to David Jiménez, a 37 year old photographer from Seville. He’s a professional photographer and professor of the art at an Arts School in Oviedo.