Tag: validación institucional
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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 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 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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Changing skin
We have been convinced for years, and with good reason, that we rely excessively on a handful of American platforms. That the European public discourse occurs within infrastructure designed in California, governed by its laws and refined by algorithms that reward indignation, constitutes a genuine problem of autonomy and democracy. Hence the impulse, increasingly...
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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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The Empty Sieve
In 1959, a company was founded in New York that sought to accomplish something that then sounded like science fiction: to predict human behaviour using a computer. It was called Simulmatics. It gathered over one hundred thousand interviews from old surveys, divided voters into four hundred and eighty categories, and simulated how each group would react to the issues...
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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...