First, I apologize for the use of a cliché in the title for this blog post, but with the gloomy weather and overall 'sad clown' feeling in the magazine office today (maybe it is the New Moon coming our way or the fact that all of the people that work here have the same astrological sign, so the mood swings are felt tenfold) a snappy blog title was hard to come by. I also wanted a succinct way to share what I saw as I headed up Rambla de Catalunya today to do an interview for our next issue.

In addition to the excessive amount of construction happening on the sides of Rambla de Catalunya, there in the midst of the pedestrian part, stretching from Gran Vía up, are 24 breathtaking photo modules from the Cameroon photographer, Angèle Etoundi Essamba. The exhibition titled Desvelos, will be up until April 22nd, then heads to Madrid in May, and Bilbao in June, and is based on shots the artist took during a trip to Zanzibar in 2006, which show the artistic use of veils in Sub-Saharan Africa.

It is hard to continue to feel like a depressed clown with art literally all around you. Just like the "Play Me, I'm Yours" artwork that placed pianos around the city for folks to play in March (a project that began in Birmingham in 2008 by Luke Jerram) art-in-action can't help but push up the sides of the mouth into a semblance of a smile.