With the rise in temperatures in the coming days, summer is already around the corner and the desire to go out and enjoy the city increases even more. With the wide cultural offering of the moment, there will hardly be time to see everything. For example, there is only one weekend left to enjoy Mapping. City log, an exhibition in La Parcería cultural center which summarizes an investigation into art and urban graphics in some areas of Madrid. It is also worth making time in your agenda to stop by the Institute of Mexico in Spain to immerse yourself in the culture of Veracruz through the festival. Mexican spring in Spain. Veracruz.
Additionally, other events will have to be added to the list. Madrid renews its cultural offer with the recently inaugurated exhibition Antonio Palacios. The architect of Metro, within the framework of the celebration of the 150 years of the birth of the man who is behind many of the city’s buildings. The temporary exhibition is also new Art and social transformations in Spain, which just a few days ago opened its doors at the Prado Museum. Also, the festival is about to start Documenta Madrid, which brings the best of national and international documentary cinema. These are the five best free activities to do in Madrid from May 24 to 31:
Mexican spring in Spain
The curious who cross the doors of the Institute of Mexico in Spain will enter, for a moment, the world of traditions of the State of Veracruz. Between May 13 and June 16, the institute celebrates the festival Mexican spring in Spainwhich includes a series of activities that show the cultural wealth of one of its regions.
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Among the events is the exhibition Afro-descendants, which brings together photographs by Manuel González de la Parra of the black populations of Veracruz. It is also In defense of identityby photographer Óscar Martínez. And, next May 28, at 7:30 p.m., it will be offered the concert Son Jarocho Madridto show a traditional Mexican genre.
- Exhibition hours: Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- Place: Institute of Mexico in Spain. San Jerónimo race, 46.
- Transportation: Seville and Bank of Spain metro stations.
‘Antonio Palacios. The architect of the Metro’
Keep the party going the 150th anniversary of the birth of the architect Antonio Palacios and Metro Madrid joins the celebration. Until next June 30, at the Real Casa de Correos, the exhibition will be open to the public Antonio Palacios. The Architect of the Metro, which takes a historical tour of the mark that Palacios left in the capital’s underground. The exhibition includes 200 pieces, among which there are videos, photographs, models and plans that reveal Palacios’ facet as one of the minds behind the first sections of the subway and some of its buildings, such as the Pacific Motor Ship and the electrical substations on Castelló and Olid streets.
Antonio Palacios is the architect of buildings such as the Palacio de Cibeles and the Círculo de Bellas Artes de Madrid, among many others in Madrid. The City Council has dedicated the last year to celebrating his birth with other exhibitions such as Life of the Cibeles Palacein the center, and guided tours of the city.
- Dates: from May 9 to June 30. From 10:00 to 14:00 and from 16:00 to 20:00.
- Place: Royal Post Office. Plaza Puerta del Sol, 7.
- Transportation: Sol metro station.
‘Mapographic. City log
There is only one weekend left to enjoy the treasures of art and urban graphics that exist in part of Madrid. This Sunday, May 26, the exhibition ends Mapping. City log, who has been in the La Parcería cultural center in recent weeks. The exhibition is the result of a research project by Fabio Manosalva who, in conversation with David Santamaría and Silvia Ramírez, explores graffiti, graffiti, stickers, posters and advertisements in Vallecas, Usera and Tetuán.
Mapeografía also comes in the form of a book, which can be purchased at La Parcería or at the independent distributor La Sombra de Caín.
- Dates: until May 26. Monday to Saturday from 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. and Sunday from 6:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
- Location: La Parcería. Martín de Vargas Street, 13
- Transportation: Embajadores metro station
‘Art and social transformations in Spain’
The art tells how Spain changed socially between 1885 and 1910. And the example of how it did so is now in the temporary exhibitions section at the Museo Nacional del Prado. Nearly 300 works are part of the exhibition Art and social transformations in Spain, which will be open to the public until September 22 and which gives an account of how changes were experienced in women’s rights, education, migration, strikes, workers’ demands, among other topics.
- Dates: from May 21 to September 22. Free hours: Monday to Saturday from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and Sundays and holidays from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
- Place: National Prado Museum.
- Transportation: Banco de España metro station.
‘Documents Madrid’
The time has come for the documentary film festival in Madrid. From May 28 to June 2, it will be held in the 26th edition of Documenta Madridan event that will screen national and international films classified in sections such as Chambers Lucidawith projections in analog format; Imagine Madrid, which brings together works about the capital; Corte Final, which brings together films in the final phase of Spanish production or co-production; or section Competitivewith 26 titles competing for awards.
Although you have to pay to see many of the documentaries, there are also free shows. For example, on May 30 at 10:00 a.m. there will be a screening The flight of the stork in the set room of the Cineteca de Madrid and, May 31 at 7:00 p.m., it will be the turn of Billy Woodberry. A Story from Africa in auditorium 200 of the Nouvel building of the Reina Sofía Museum.
A Goyesque market in Torrejón de Ardoz
It is worth organizing a getaway to the Madrid municipality of Torrejón de Ardoz on the weekend of May 24 to experience the Goya market. The Plaza Mayor and the streets of Hospital and Enmedio will be the scene of this thematic event, which will immerse the visitor in the culture of the late 18th century and early 19th century. There will be activities for all ages: puppet theater, combat demonstrations, musical parades, craft exhibitions, musical shows and also gastronomic tasting areas.
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