Music, cinema, museums, fashion, art… a little bit of everything in our May highlights. There are proposals for all tastes, some without leaving Spain, in cities like Barcelona or Bilbao, and others to travel a little bit to different parts of Europe, and even cross the pond to New York. Do you want to know more? Then read on:
Kubrick and London
One of the most exciting film directors of all time, Stanley Kubrick. And one of the most fascinating cities in the world, London. An unbeatable binomial, that is what the Design Museum of the British capital is offering us from 26 April until 15 September. In other words, this is one of the highlights of May, but in reality it will be so throughout the summer of 2019.
Iconic helmet from Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket
The exhibition takes us through the places in London that fascinated the New York director and that appear in some of his masterpieces. In addition, objects and materials from the filming of A Clockwork Orange, The Metallic Jacket and Eyes Wide Shut are on display. In short, a must for film buffs and lovers of contemporary culture.
May’s must-see highlights: the Met Gala
Every year in Horse’s May highlights is the gala that Anna Wintour, the famous editor of Vogue, prepares at the Metropolitan in New York. A global meeting that brings together design, art, glamour, the banal and also the charitable. In short, an event not to be missed, even if only virtually, as the gala dinner, which will take place on 6 May, is not an event that anyone can attend, as the ticket costs 35,000 dollars.
Last year religion and fashion came together at the MET.
However, anyone who travels to New York can visit the Met and the exhibition generated by the gala, which this year is entitled Camp Notes on Fashion. An exhibition inspired by an essay by the great Susan Sontag, a benchmark of aesthetics in capital letters, and which promises to be a real surprise. For the moment, we can begin to intuit what awaits us on the museum’s own website.
Zaha Hadid in Barcelona
The title is somewhat misleading, as the brilliant architect of Iraqi origin passed away a few years ago, after a brilliant career with projects developed across the length and breadth of the planet. That is why as a tribute among the events programmed as part of the Architecture Week promoted by the Mies van der Rohe Award, a special tribute will be paid to her in Barcelona.
Nordpark Cable Railway, one of the projects present at the Alma Hotel
The Hotel Alma in Barcelona will host from 9 May an exhibition with the models of several projects that in their time were highlighted in the EU Mies Awards, such as the Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg, the Nordpark Cabel Railway or the MAXXI Museum of XXI Century Arts. And of course there will also be the project for a tram stop in Strasbourg, which received this award in 2003.
Will the Venice Biennale 2019 be interesting?
Another regular event among the highlights of May is the Venice Biennale, in this case its 58th edition as an International Art Exhibition. An edition that will begin on 11 May and will conclude in November on the 24th. Until then there will be time to see an exhibition that before it has even begun is already controversial and that has been prepared by the gallerist Ralph Rugoff.
Michael Armitage one of the artists present at the Bienale
The title of the exhibition is “May you live in interesting times”. Under this umbrella of what is supposedly the most interesting in these times we live in, you will be able to see the works of almost 80 artists from every corner of the planet. There are Europeans and North Americans, but also Asians, Africans and Latin Americans. But curiously there are no Spanish creators.
Richter’s “marinas” in Bilbao
Another proposal of plastic arts for these highlights of May takes us to the capital of Biscay, specifically to the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao. There, the exhibition Marinas by the German artist Gerhard Richter will open on May 24th. And the exhibition will last practically the whole summer, as it will not close until 9 September.
One of Richter’s famous marinas
This German artist, born in 1932, can be considered one of the great masters of photopaintings. And to prove it, it is enough to contemplate these seascapes offered to us by the Bilbao museum. A broad representation of his art from the 1960s to almost the year 2000. Images in which he plays with pictorial and photographic techniques, to the point of not knowing in which artistic discipline to frame them. If they are to be framed in any?
Two jazz festivals in Germany
To finish with May’s highlights, we would like to pay tribute to jazz music. The freest musical style that surely exists and that has followers in every corner of the planet. A good example can be found in Germany, a country where the Germanic stereotype doesn’t seem to fit in with such creative freedom. And yet, the Teutonic country abounds with jazz festivals. From east to west and from south to north.
Elb Jazz stage in the port of Hamburg
Here are two examples, the Dixieland Festival in Dresden, from 19 to 26 May. And the Elb Jazz Hamburg, from 31 May to 1 June. The first is one of the most swinging musical events on the international scene. While the second brings authentic stars of the jazz genre to play on the industrial stages of the city’s port. A marvellous sight and sound.
What more could we ask for the next few days of the month? Good music, interesting art, travel, great film classics and the most dazzling elegance. From Horse we propose you all this as May’s highlights. What do you think? Maybe you have your own recommendations. If so, let us know and we’ll be able to echo them.
