One of the world’s best-known architects is put under the microscope in this on-going series of exhibitions staged by the CCCB of great figures of the 20th-century. Le Corbusier defined himself as both architect and as a man of letters and here the great man’s thoughts are as visible as his buildings. A dense and original thinker, Le Corbusier was also self-taught and able to translate his vision of the world into radically innovative constructions. The excellent exhibition is curated by the philosopher and writer, Pep Subirós and the architect Fernando Marzá.
Le Corbusier
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Forest of Stone
28 11 2008The Frederic Marès Museum is known for the vast and eccentric collection of its founder, a man who maniacally collected oddities and treasures from around the world. In this exhibition, the more than 40 stone capitals on view form one of the best groups in the world. The capitals date from the 9th to the 14th-century and include the highly refined stone work of the Arabic world as well as masterly products of the Romanesque and Gothic.
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Audrey Hepburn: A Woman, the Style
27 11 2008As soon as Audrey Hepburn burst into public consciousness in her Oscar-winning debut in ‘Roman Holiday’, she became a major style icon. Each subsequent movie became a must-see event as Hepburn appeared in a series of luscious creations from Givenchy, Ferragamo and Valentino. This exhibition features 110 examples of her clothing dating from the early 1950s to the late 1980s, from both her on- and off-screen wardrobes, as well as assorted movie memorabilia including the Vespa scooter from her debut film.
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Cuba
24 11 2008
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Fantasia 2000
23 11 2008Fantasia 2000 is the digitally remastered classic from Disney, and Irish audiences will see it first in the IMAX – more ‘movie experience’than ‘movie theatre’– where the top-class animation surrounds you on the 62-foot screen. Mickey Mouse has never looked so big. The soundtrack, in which Leopold Stokowski conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra in everything from Beethoven to Rimsky Korsakov, will also benefit from the superb six-channel sound system. The film features some new material, in addition to the remastered original animations.
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Salsitas & Club 22
22 11 2008A huge palace of sculpted whiteness, Salsitas provides its awe-struck clientele with a bar, restaurant and cool club area. The food is a very decent selection of salads, pizzas and such tasteful main courses as chicken breast with sun-dried tomatoes, asparagus and wild mushrooms. After dinner, the newly created Club 22, run by the hip and trendy crew of the defunct Octopussy, gets the feet moving with excellent house, disco and breakbeat, featuring such DJs as Bass, Howard and Sideral. The club scene happens every night during August, and Thursday til Saturday in September and October.
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Henry Rollins
18 11 2008Singer (formerly of Black Flag and currently of the Rollins Band), book publisher (of Nick Cave, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Alan Vega and Don Bajema) and general workaholic, Henry Rollins returns to town in his well-established guise of hilarious raconteur. His ‘spoken word’appearances draw on two decades of life on the road, during which he’s mingled with the down, the dirty, the rich and the (in)famous. His life-lessons blend stark sincerity with aching belly laughs.
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The Marriage of Figaro
6 11 2008Probably the greatest comic opera ever written by Mozart or anyone else, ‘Figaro’is a stream of plot and counter-plot, intrigues and disguises. Figaro prepares for his wedding to the lovely Susanna in Count Almaviva’s castle (he is the Count’s valet), uncomfortably aware that his master has his own designs on the bride. Figaro’s affections are sorely tested before the happy ending arrives. It stars Teddy Tahu Rhodes, Rebecca Nash, Richard Alexander and Natalie Christie. Conducted by Jane Glover.
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All Men Are Whores
3 11 2008‘I like a nice ass’, says one man – naked apart from a red boxing helmet. ‘When I come it’s like a river’, explains his friend in drag. Billed as a ‘collage piece’by David Mamet, Sam Shephard and others, this production attempts a synthesis of several approaches to sex and sexuality. The result is a intellectual take on the traditional naughty revue, reminiscent of Kenneth Tynan’s ‘Oh! Calcutta’. Based in this superbly refurbished theatre, the French and Anglophone Actors’Group aims to offer bilingual productions of English language theatre. Potentially funny and sexy, ‘Whores’takes itself far too seriously to be either; copious nudity and camp goings-on can’t distract from overall leaden repetitiveness. (In English.)
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