More worth your time at the same venue, plus a few nearby picks.
JAZZ
Gershwin and the Rise of American Classical Music
Concert with Pedro Pardo at piano and Albert Galcerán presenting. Gershwin merged European orchestral tradition with New World rhythms, creating American classical music by dissolving boundaries between opera, musical, classical and jazz.
CINEMA
And Yet We Were Born: Film Concert
Cine-concert of Yasujirō Ozu's 1931 film about two brothers discovering the adult world and social hierarchies in Tokyo, accompanied by live music from Caspervek Ensemble.
EXHIBITIONS
Dinosaurs of Patagonia
Palaeontology exhibition on Patagonian dinosaurs featuring skeleton replicas and original fossils, including a thirty-metre-long Patagotitan mayorum specimen.
CONTEMPORARY
Outside the Frame - Dijkstra and Parreno
Joint exhibition of Rineke Dijkstra's video installation Night Watching and Philippe Parreno's immersive film La quinta del sordo, which reinterpret Goya's Black Paintings and Rembrandt's Night Watch through contemporary public interaction.
LECTURE
The Revenge of Consolation
Book presentation by Agustín López-Raya examining the weight of the past, personal decisions and human consequences. Art historian Alicia Escart Arias contextualises the work.
LECTURE
Reformulate the Question: What Became of the Gorgon's Body?
Lecture by Ana Carrasco-Conde, Professor of Philosophy at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, proposing dialogue with ancient thought on the relationship between the birth of philosophy and horror.
LECTURE
40th Anniversary: Cardiac Transplant - The Possible Dream
Lecture by Dr Manuel Concha, professor of cardiovascular surgery, on the 40th anniversary of cardiac transplantation, presented by Rosa Luque at Fundación Cajasol.
LECTURE
A Free Duchess
Lecture on the personality of Duchess Cayetana de Alba, featuring Carlos Herrera, Rosa Villacastín and Ignacio Sánchez-Dalp, moderated by Mamen Mendizábal, marking the centenary of her birth.
