(noticia) Spain Culture Round Up

- Mon Feb 20th 2006
By h.b.

One of the Picasso works from the Paris Museum, now on show in the Reina Sofia - Photo EFE

The Reina Sofia museum in Madrid is showing 13 Picasso works as part of a temporary exhibition. The four oils and nine drawings date from the 30’s and 40’s and come from the Paris Museum, and are placed next to the famous Guernica. They will stay on show until May 23rd.

Spanish actor Javier Bardem is to star in the adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Mike Newell, who directed Four Weddings and a Funeral and Donnie Brasco, is in charge of the project.
The novel tells the story of a man who spends his life waiting for one woman to return his love.
For many years Nobel Prize winner Marquez refused to permit his book to be made into a film.

Flamenco fusion group, Ojos de Brujo, who come from Barcelona and who were voted best world music group by the BBC, launch their third album this week. ‘Techarí’ mixes the music of Africa, India and Cuba with Spanish flamenco rhythm. Guitarist Ramón Giménez said they band was not fusion, rather they take baggage from each music style.

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