David Granda

2 months ago | english.elpais.com | Álex Vicente |David Granda

“Auschwitz with lunch included.” The inspiration for Jesse Eisenberg to shoot the Oscar-nominated A Real Pain, came to him unexpectedly: through an internet advertisement for a visit to the concentration camp, which on Monday commemorates the 80th anniversary of its liberation in 1945. The advert was promoting a type cultural tourism that has been gaining traction in recent years. It invites us to visit the various sites of the Holocaust and relive the trauma of the victims, in comfort and style.

Nov 21, 2024 | english.elpais.com | Ixone Arana |Tom C. Avendaño |David Granda

In 1981, six years before his death, Andy Warhol devoted the spring to a limited series of paintings commissioned by Donald Trump. The American tycoon, then 34 years old, asked the artist for paintings inspired by Trump Tower, which was still under construction, to adorn the atrium of his first architectural project, located at 725 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

Aug 22, 2024 | elpais.com | David Granda

Un camping en Venecia es una forma fabulosa de ir a Venecia sin estar en Venecia, entre bávaros, corintios y estirios civilizados y algún que otro italiano que te puede enseñar a cocinar pasta alla Norma junto al Adriático. Un camping en Venecia, en el litoral de Cavallino-Treporti, una lengua de tierra que separa la Laguna del mar, es una reproducción a escala de Mitteleuropa, de la Europa de Claudio Magris, del imperio austrohúngaro de veraneo (el real y el berlanguiano).

Jul 28, 2024 | english.elpais.com | Jacinto Antón |David Granda

Braunau am Inn has the dubious privilege of appearing in the first sentence of the first chapter of Mein Kampf. Adolf Hitler explains there that he considers it a “fortunate destiny” to have been born (at 6.30 p.m. on April 20, 1889, a cloudy Saturday, as noted in his biography of reference by Ian Kershaw) in the small Austrian town.

Jul 21, 2024 | english.elpais.com | Mateo Sancho Cardiel |David Granda

Can we finally declare that the label “contemporary art” has become ancient, so that we can begin the search for a new one to describe what’s happening in 2024? The American painter Asher Liftin is 25-years-old. Inevitably, one turns to him for insight, as if he were the oracle who can predict what’s to come. Or, rather, what’s already here (we just don’t know about it). Liftin is one of the first successful artists from the generation that completed its university studies via Zoom.