- visual arts/culture
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- Almodóvar: Man of La Mancha
- The Age
Melbourne, 1994, 2,100 words; adapted extracts -
When I interviewed Pedro Almodóvar what most impressed me was his encyclopaedic knowledge and his openness about trickier aspects of work and life. Curiously, many themes that we touched upon emerged in his later work.
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- Bilbao entra en el siglo XXI: El Guggenheim
- El Mundo: La Revista
Madrid, 1996 -
El proyecto del Museo Guggenheim en Bilbao no tenía precedentes en España, y encendió un largo debate acerca de política cultural y la inversión que suponia. Asuntos de gran interés en sí mismos, aunque fueron la implicación y la pasión del arquitecto Frank Gehry en el proyecto las que dejaron entrever que el res- ultado sería excepcional.
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- Guggenheim: Bilbao Places its Bets for a Heroic Gamble
- The European Magazine
London, 1997, 1,900 words; extracts -
Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum was an unprecedented project in Spain. Its creation sparked a long debate about cultural politics and investment. The depth of architect Frank Gehry's involvement in the project signalled that something thought-provoking was underway.
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- In a Room in Paris: Fashion Forecasting
- Sunday Telegraph Magazine
London, 1988, 2,300 words; extracts -
Fashion forecasting wasn't a well-known business when Promostyl let me into their think-tank in Paris in the 1980s. Their working process - a kind of street semiology - became the main focus of the article.
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- Lucha, es tu derecho: el Toro Osborne
- El Mundo/El Dominical
Madrid, 1994, 1,750 words; adapted extracts -
De pequeña, las vallas junto a las carreteras a lo largo de España formaban parte de un nuevo paisaje: esos recortes negros, su silueta con el cielo azul de fondo, sin ser realidad ni ficción, convertía el bochorno del viaje en coche en toda una aventura.
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- Women Bullfighters
- Marie Claire
London & Istanbul, 1992 / 2013, 3,500 words; adapted extracts -
The confrontation of bull and matador becomes something else again when the matador is a woman. Everyone, I discovered while writing this article, had problems with women facing the bull: the male matadors, the anti-bullfighting lobby and women themselves. Twenty years later nothing has changed. Cristina Sánchez, portrayed in this article, received critical acclaim and commercial success as a matador, but male bullfighters blocked her career and in 1999, at the age of just 27, she retired. Since then no other key female matador has emerged.
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