Tag: Spain
Over the weekend, a group of activists made history by holding the world’s first-ever hologram protest in Spain. The virtual protest was devised by No Somos Delito (translation: We Are Not Crime), who projected a hologram in front of parliament to protest a law that, in part, bans protest in front of parliament. According to […]
When Cecilia Giménez attempted to restore the Elías García Martínez painting of Jesus in her small Spanish home town, Borja, she thought she was servicing culture as well as the church. After she had finished, the town was enraged and the internet meme “Beast Jesus” was born. Today, however, she is regarded as something of a saint. “Ikea […]
Archaeologist Dean Snow of Pennsylvania State University studied the handprints found across eight different historic cave sites in France and Spain, the most famous ranging from about 12,000 to 40,000 years old. After paying closer attention to the finger lengths of handprints, he found that contrary to popular belief, most of these markings were created by women. Based on […]
Recently, at the Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona, a live performance by the band Phoenix was punctuated quite nicely by the showering of their audience with approximately 42,000 fake one-hundred dollar bills, each designed by the infamous contemporary artist Richard Prince. Below is a very poor quality video of the newly designed bills raining down on the audience to set the mood. This gesture […]
