Short of art and culture – The Journal of Yucatán

         

     

Spain
“While happiness comes”
“I’ve spent half my life saying no”, this phrase sums up the writer Juan Marse his life, now collected in “While happiness comes”, written by José María Cuenca biography after six years research and interviews with the Barcelona author.

Goodbye González Ledesma
The journalist, comic writer and novelist specializing in detective genre Francisco González Ledesma died yesterday at age 88, after two years of facing an illness.

Next Honoris Causa
For the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita, who will be sworn in on Thursday Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Alicante (eastern Spain), “the ideology serves to remember a few important things: we are human and deeply equals”.

A literary Sea “Gabo”
The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, who is on a state visit in Spain, Madrid yesterday visited an exhibition that creates a literary sea made with 3D technology chosen words from the work of Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez.

Turkey
The last goodbye
A human tide today accompanied the coffin of the writer Yasar Kemal, who died on Saturday at his funeral in the central cemetery in Istanbul Zincirlikuyu.

Colombia
Pictures of “Black Earth”
The Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) in Bogotá opened the exhibition “Black Land”, a series of black and white photographs of Mexican Maya Goded, leading from Mexico to the reality of the Caribbean or the Colombian Pacific.

Brazil
Picasso for Brazilians
> Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, the two largest cities in Brazil, will host this year’s exhibition “Picasso and the Spanish modernity” which includes 90 works by Spanish artists, mostly from Malaga painter, belonging to the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.

Germany
Elect New Director
The Berlin Philharmonic choose the May 11th successor of its director, Simon Rattle, by vote among the 124 members of the orchestra eligible for any master of everyone, even sound like favorites Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel and German Christian Thielemann.

France
Robo China Museum
At least 15 Oriental artworks were stolen from the Museum of China called the Chateau de Fontainebleau, near Paris, according to French media reported today.

Source: EFE and Notimex