Twelve or thirteen years ago, over dinner with a large group of friends and other friends of friends, I was asked earnestly – and quite out of the blue – by a young woman I had only just met what, in my opinion, might differentiate comercial art from fine art and which one of the […]

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Lolo arrived at Prudenci’s not long after Claudia had started working there, perhaps sometime in the spring of 2005. Prudenci ran a jeweler’s workshop and gallery on Carrer dels Ases in El Born and one day a young black tabby with a small white patch on his chest came running in, never to leave. We […]

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I no longer recall if I saw this on TED or if it was on some other site. The talk was about letting go of  emotional baggage – for one’s own well-being more than anything else – and I seem to remember that the point was illustrated by the speaker asking the audience to invoke […]

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A national institution; they are everywhere. I no longer remember the exact figure – I could easily look it up – but last I knew they have three hundred (plus) points of sale nationwide alone. A monstrous cephalopod of its kind, the corporation has gobbled up other similar businesses over the last thirty years and […]

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