🇨🇭 Ayer celebramos la Fiesta Nacional Suiza en la Residencia del Embajador en Madrid, junto a representantes de las instituciones, del mundo empresarial y cultural, la comunidad suiza y amigos de Suiza.
Una velada para celebrar los estrechos vínculos entre 🇨🇭 y 🇪🇸.
at least once a week I think about the time Amy Poehler convinced her fellow Emmy nominees to pretend they were in a beauty pageant when their names were called, and every celeb in the audience went wildddd
their names were supposed to be announced alphabetically, but Edie Falco was too nervous to go first, so Amy took the lead. Tina Fey had a baby 12 days beforehand and said she was "just happy to be out, wearing a pad on every part of my body."
Rob Lowe improvised a line about how "everyone was a winner," and then he crowned Melissa McCarthy with her first Emmy (and a literal tiara), to which she said, "Wow, it's my first and best pageant ever!" award shows in 2011 were so fun lol
Carrie Coon to star alongside Rebecca Ferguson and Greta Lee in rom-com ‘HONEYMOON / FUNERAL’ from Nahnatchka Khan.
Two women meet on a flight – one en route to her honeymoon by herself after being left at the altar by her girlfriend, the other headed home for a funeral – and wind up spending the week together.
Picasso was 15 years old when he painted this.
It looks nothing like a Picasso, and the reason why is one of the most beautiful things he ever said...
It's called First Communion, made in 1896, and it was the first large canvas he ever completed. There are no strange angles here, no fractured faces, none of the wild reinvention his name now brings to mind. It is a stunning and technically flawless scene: a young girl kneeling at the altar in a white dress, about to take her first communion, the moment a child is meant to step toward adulthood.
The translucence of the girl's veil, the altar boy's surplice, the light falling from a source outside the frame, all of it revealing a command of paint startling for his age. He built the whole picture around whiteness, linking the white of Lola's dress to the white of the altar cloth and the candlelight, so the eye reads the whole scene as a passage from one life into another.
He was only 15, and he understood that...
It was shown at a major exhibition in Barcelona, where the local press marveled that a boy not yet old enough to shave had painted like a master of the academy.
At fifteen Picasso could already do this, the thing that thousands of trained artists spend their entire lives trying and failing to do. He had it as a boy. And he would spend the rest of his life trying to get back the one thing this perfect painting does not have: the freedom of a child, who paints without fear, without rules, and without yet knowing what is supposed to be impossible...
He said it himself: "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."