Tag: trabajo cultural
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The design was the damage
Today, 26 August 2026, Meta has reached a settlement with a coalition of attorneys general from 47 states and several United States territories to conclude the lawsuit accusing it of designing Instagram and Facebook to cultivate dependency in minors. It will pay at least 12.1 billion dollars over ten years, a figure that could reach...
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The security of the name
Anyone working in contemporary art acknowledges, though they rarely state it aloud, that the living artist presents a challenge to the institution, whereas the established artist represents a convenience. Not because anyone holds them in contempt, but due to something colder and more difficult to combat: the logic with which a...
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Illuminating the empty room
In little more than twenty years, Málaga has transformed into a city of museums, and this, stated without irony, is an achievement. Where there was once only sun and beach for the visitor, there is now a density of institutions that few Spanish cities of its size can match: the Picasso, the Pompidou, the...
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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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Three thousand dollars for my book
On 20 July 2026, a federal judge in California granted final approval to the largest settlement to date between authors and an artificial intelligence company: 1.5 billion dollars, approximately three thousand for each book utilised. What was resolved therein is not what is typically reported. It was not determined whether a machine...
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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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The narrative we fund
Five and a half kilometres from the centre of Toledo, on an estate known as Zurraquín, lies a five-hectare stage where fifteen hundred years of Spanish history are performed each evening. The production is titled El Sueño de Toledo and serves as the heart of Puy du Fou España, the first complete establishment outside of…
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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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Capital gain without the artist
Consider a young, unknown painter who sells a painting for three hundred euros. Twenty years pass, the painter has established a reputation, and that same work is auctioned for one hundred thousand. Between these two figures lies a vast disparity, a capital gain of nearly one hundred thousand euros that emerged while the work transitioned from...
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What a child learns to admire
On childhood, violence, and what a community chooses to consecrate as culture. In municipalities along the Costa del Sol, two languages of cultural policy coexist without apparent conflict. On one hand, major events promoting animal welfare, featuring artists and guests, are presented as initiatives of culture, solidarity, and participation. On the other,...