Great seeing friends come together… here is Alexandra del Bene’s wonderful graffiti shutter art at my favourite family bar Bodeguita Romero.
more great graffiti art
28 Saturday May 2016
Category Archives: art
bull art
21 Thursday Apr 2016
I’ve loved Keith Haring’s work since I first came across it in the mid-80s. So I was delighted to come across this piece in the Toro Museum at Bodegas Osborne, which combines the emblematic Osborne bull with images from Picasso’s Guernica. Genius.
you never know…
08 Friday Apr 2016
One of the best things about my job is that I never really know what’s going to happen when I meet my guests for the first time and we head off to our first tapas bar. Yesterday was a prime example of this when we ran into graffiti artist Alexandra del Bene, who was jazzing up the shutters at Bodeguita Romero when we arrrived. Then she ended up joining us for a couple of tapitas and some wine (Alex is in pink), saying it was too hot to keep working outside. As you can see, she totally charmed my guests.
Later we ran into someone with a young eagle on her arm, who offered to let us hold it for photos. A bit scammy, but also fun. Then we happened upon my artist friend Norberto on his way home with his portable printing press, and finally we saw The Dude! Rather a full day. And a typical day in my life too.
fish art
07 Monday Mar 2016
spiders!
01 Tuesday Sep 2015
Posted in andalucia, art, azahartravels, Malaga, malaga getaway, spain, tapas, tapas tours
It’s been a long-time dream of mine (and still is) to visit the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, in part because I’ve always wanted to see the famous Louise Bourgeois spider there “in person”. But I got a chance to see a slightly smaller version in Málaga at the Picasso Museum (something I’d forgotten to do on my last Málaga Getaway). Luckily the I’ve Been To Hell and Back exhibition was still on (until the end of September) and so off I went. To be honest, for me the spider was the best part. A lot of Bourgeois’ work is the stuff of nightmares, and some of it I actually wish I could unsee. But I did get to see the spider and it was magnificent.
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