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...critic in the early 1950s described his famous façades as "tortures of the imagination, fetuses in stone, bulbous obscenities." But today, many hail him as a genius, some are calling on the Pope to make him a saint, and more than two million people come to Barcelona each year to stare at his buildings, love them or hate them. With the 150th anniversary of his birth on June 25, the city of Barcelona and the Catalan and Spanish governments have proclaimed 2002 International Gaudí Year. More than 100 events are planned in homage. Already the Spanish press...
Farguell, 46, general manager of Futbol Club Barcelona, has made a three-year pact with the National Football League to help buoy the popularity of U.S. football in Europe and European soccer in the U.S. His soccer team will play exhibition games in NFL stadiums, and the Barcelona Dragons, part of NFL Europe, will join F.C. Barcelona's 16-team empire...
Jamal grew up in Nablus, the son of a shopkeeper, but left after the 1967 war to study medicine in England. Not yet 18, he changed his mind - to his parents' displeasure - and headed for Barcelona. Survival and paying for his medical studies meant all sorts of jobs: distributing leaflets, playing semi-pro soccer, being a mafioso extra in a film about boxing. "One Christmas I was employed as one of the Three Kings, the black one," laughs Jamal over a coffee in the Ateneo, Barcelona's leading cultural forum. Jamal is now 50 and married to a Catalan...
...show mass appeal despite its esoteric nature. “The show references a lot of photo discourse and theory, but it isn’t so postmodern that it’s difficult to understand,” he says. Sheng describes his photography, shot in locations from Barcelona to Wyoming, as “anti-grunge,” referring to the grunge movement that he says has “been the dominant force in fashion for 10 years. [In the early ‘90’s] European magazines promoted this anti-fashion in response...
...graduation. “Once I’m in Hong Kong I won’t really have the time to explore Europe,” Peng explains. “So this is a great opportunity for me. It will be nice running into Harvard grads in Barcelona and not in the Science Center...