Tag: reconocimiento
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Who holds the key
En febrero de 2017 el Metropolitan de Nueva York puso en internet más de trescientas setenta y cinco mil imágenes de su colección para usar, compartir y remezclar sin restricción. Hoy pasan de cuatrocientas noventa mil. El Smithsonian abrió en 2020 con casi tres millones de piezas digitales y hoy supera los cinco millones, en…
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More beautiful
In Kerala, during the Onam festivities, there exists a popular tradition known as Pulikali: men who paint their bodies as tigers and dance through the streets of Thrissur to the rhythm of percussion. It is sustained by neighbourhood groups that spend months preparing the paint, the movements, and the music. This August 2026, an actor...
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The artworld in the place of Ideas
There is a question that has permeated the philosophy of art since its first formulation and which is almost never articulated as what it truly is: what renders a work more than the object that sustains it? Why this canvas, and not the one beside it? Why this urinal and not all the others...
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At whose expense
One must credit the Vatican with an intelligence rarely observed in an institution of its scale. It understood, before most States and certainly before almost any corporation, that the narrative an institution projects is not altered by press releases or campaigns, but by culture. That if one desires...
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Two Regimes, One Sculpture
In a field in Montauk, there sits a figure in the lotus position, nearly eighteen metres tall, constructed from twelve shipping containers that traversed the sea for years before being decommissioned. It is titled Meditating Figure, by Matt Johnson, and has been part of an open-air exhibition since late June. For the...
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Recognition is not protection
In 2018, Spain unanimously and with applause approved the report intended to establish the Artist's Statute. Eight years later, it is worth examining what has been enacted into law and what remains pending, as the disparity between the two reveals much about how we regard the work of creation. I shall begin with the…
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Threatening works
In Berlin, the Volksbühne transformed the street in front of its building into a public swimming pool this summer. It was named Volksbad: twenty-five metres of water, free of charge, with no identification required, for eight weeks, as an intervention within a city where public space is increasingly privatised and controlled. As part of that programme, which included days reserved…
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Who is accountable for the verdict
The oldest institution of contemporary art will distribute its awards this year by visitor vote. This is neither a citizen participation initiative nor a curatorial experiment: it is what remained when the jury departed and the vacancy required resolution within days. The Venice Biennale has been since…
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The catalogue ornament
An image divided in two is circulating these days. On the left, a downspout gargoyle in the shape of a fish, aged metal against light stone, with scrolls and leaves carved around it. On the right, a grey pipe with its elbow, screwed into a wall. Above, a question: why we ceased to concern ourselves with beauty. And…
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Three months for an outcome
I preside over a small foundation, and everything that follows could be read as the grievance of someone who struggles to demonstrate their impact, so I shall begin by conceding what must be conceded. The demand for measurement is reasonable and, in large part, represents a significant achievement. Both public and private funds have…