Archivo etiqueta «Museos»
By Charlotte Higgins (THE GUARDIAN, 24/07/08):
When Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, was welcomed into Tate Modern recently by Nicholas Serota, it was a meeting of arguably the two most influential museum directors in the world.
Lowry was in London to promote MoMA’s forthcoming shows – including the first full retrospective of the South African-born painter Marlene Dumas, and a major show on Martin Kippenberger. In Tate Modern, all was courteousness as Serota, the impeccably besuited director of the Tate, introduced the equally trim and stylish Lowry to his British audience. Lowry extravagantly … Seguir leyendo
By Sandy Nairne, director of the National Portrait Gallery and a vice-president of the Museums Association (THE GUARDIAN, 25/02/08):
For many years the first priority of the museum director was an overriding concern to protect the objects in a collection from theft or loss: ensuring that they would survive for future generations. The next considerations included putting items on display, the conservation of items needing attention and researching the collection – so that knowledge could be shared with others outside the museum.
Nobody would doubt the importance of these priorities. But now they should be seen in a wider … Seguir leyendo
By Allan Gerson, a former professor of international law and senior State and Justice Department official (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 23/02/08):
London’s Royal Academy of Arts is drawing excited crowds with its exhibition “From Russia: French and Russian Master Paintings 1870-1925 From Moscow and St. Petersburg.” These 120 Impressionist and Modernist masterpieces couldn’t be shown, however, until Britain acceded to a very unusual condition: that Parliament enact special legislation providing complete immunity to Russia from anyone claiming ownership of these paintings, some of which were seized by the Communists during the Bolshevik Revolution.
Art lovers may be delighted to … Seguir leyendo
Por Pedro González-Trevijano, Rector de la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (ABC, 21/01/08):
He aprovechado estos días de asueto navideño para acercarme al Museo del Prado. La ocasión lo merecía. De una parte, para conocer con detalle y sosiego -en las inauguraciones oficiales no es posible- una ampliación acorde con las exigencias actuales. Y, de otra, para disfrutar con las exposiciones temporales del edificio de Juan de Villanueva: Goya. El toro mariposa, Los Grecos del Prado y Las Fábulas de Velázquez. Y, sobre todo, por la oportunidad de ver las postergadas Pinturas de Historia del siglo XIX. A ellas llegamos, … Seguir leyendo
Por Benigno Pendás, ex Director General de Bellas Artes (ABC, 29/11/07):
Acaso el viejo tópico nunca fue cierto: Madrid, poblachón manchego, villa y corte, majas castizas y empleados holgazanes. Dicho con el masoquismo genial propio de Camilo José Cela, esta ciudad era una mezcla de Navalcarnero y Kansas City. A día de hoy, en cambio, Madrid ejerce no sólo como capital política, sino también empresarial y financiera, dinámica y pujante, en condiciones de competir con las mejores de Europa. Global pero local, el siglo XXI es muy exigente en materia de iconos. Tenemos ya unos cuantos: el metro, la … Seguir leyendo
Por Jonathan Brown (ABC, 29/10/07):
Pisé el sagrado terreno del Museo del Prado por primera vez en el mes de septiembre de 1958, es decir cuando el billete de autobús valía dos pesetas. Aquel era un templo sin fieles. La tranquilidad era absoluta. Claro, la luz era pobre pero, siguiendo la carrera del sol, visitando las salas del este por la mañana y las del oeste por la tarde, se veía bastante bien. Otro factor: los cuadros no cambiaban de sitio. En las visitas que hice en los años siguientes, podía ir directamente a los cuadros que estudiaba sin despistarme … Seguir leyendo
By Anjana Ahuja (THE TIMES, 03/09/07):
In the world of palaeontology, Lucy is like Brangelina, Nelson Mandela and the Queen rolled into one. She is by far the most famous fossil in the world. She has the diminutive stature of a chimpanzee and a pelvis that suggests she walked upright; that combination makes her a platinum milestone along the path of human evolution.
And that is why the 3.2 million-year-old is leaving her home country of Ethiopia and embarking on a celebrity tour of America. The first stop on her six-year odyssey is the Houston Museum of Natural Science, where … Seguir leyendo
By Michael Dixon, director of the Natural History Museum (THE GUARDIAN, 24/05/07):
Beyond the blue whale, the dinosaurs and the crocodiles, the Natural History Museum has a fundamental commitment to advance the understanding of the natural world through science. Behind our public and educational faces lie research laboratories, libraries and science staff who care for and develop a collection of more than 70m items from across the world. This work places the museum at the heart of the debate about science in society today, as well as cementing our role as custodians of knowledge for the future.
The natural … Seguir leyendo
By Celia Braifield (THE TIMES, 19/02/07):
Isn’t it time we admitted that art is hell? You go to one of the world’s great art exhibits looking forward to seeing human creation at its most beautiful and instead you experience human nature at its ugliest.
I am full of solidarity with the staff at the Louvre, who are striking for more pay because of the stress of dealing with 8.3 million visitors a year. Their job is to funnel the equivalent of the population of New York City through a palace built for a few hundred courtiers, past a painting intended … Seguir leyendo
By Agnès Poirier (THE GUARDIAN, 23/01/07):
Can you hear the ground shaking beneath your feet? The Louvre is to open a permanent gallery dedicated to British art in the spring of 2008 – a revolution in the world of museums. Since 2001, the French institution has been spending millions on British watercolours, snapping them up at auctions, in order to plug the gaps in its own collection.Until very recently, British art was never properly curated in France’s first gallery, the most visited in the world. Currently only 20 or so pictures by British artists hang on the Louvre’s walls, though, … Seguir leyendo
Por Julio Llamazares, escritor (EL PAÍS, 05/10/06):
Que el museo de arte contemporáneo de una ciudad española inaugure su nueva temporada con una fiesta cuyos dos alicientes principales eran la presencia de Alaska y de su marido y la actuación de la Terremoto de Alcorcón no dejaría de ser una catetada de no hacerse a costa del contribuyente; peor: del contribuyente de una autonomía que apenas tiene medios para cuidar su gran patrimonio artístico. Muy cerca de ese museo al que me refiero, una de las catedrales góticas mejores de toda Europa sobrevive a duras penas con las migajas … Seguir leyendo
By Daniel Finkelstein (THE TIMES, 16/08/06):
SO LISTEN, I’ve got another story for you. It’s about a battered old empty suitcase. Perhaps you’ve heard it already, perhaps you haven’t, whatever. But it’s been almost a week since I first became acquainted with it, and I am still trying to make sense of what I’ve heard.
Before I begin, it may help if I explain that if things had worked out differently, I could have been a very wealthy man.
In the late 1970s, towards the end of my grandmother’s life, unrest began to bubble up in Poland, the start of … Seguir leyendo
Jesús Pedro Lorente es profesor de Museología de la Universidad de Zaragoza y Daniel Solè es museólogo vocal de la Junta de Museos de Cataluña (EL PAÍS, 05/06/06):
Cuando hay dos bandos de opinión tan acalorados como los que están enfrentando a fuerzas políticas, instancias mediáticas y colectivos ciudadanos de Aragón y Cataluña por la reclamación de los bienes de las parroquias que un día dependieron de la diócesis de Lleida y ahora pertenecen a la de Barbastro-Monzón, es difícil ser imparcial y hasta para los profesionales resulta imposible pretender ser objetivos. Con todo, dos museólogos: uno aragonés y otro … Seguir leyendo
Por Román de la Calle, catedrático de Estética de la Universitat de València y director del Muvim (EL PAÍS, 17/05/06):
Quizás el Consejo Internacional de Museos (ICOM), al seleccionar el lema, que se adscribe anualmente a la celebración del Día Internacional de los Museos (18 de mayo), ha considerado este año -por fin- que el estudio de la relación entre Los jóvenes y los Museos bien merece una oportunidad y la promoción de una cadena de reflexiones y de actividades sobre el tema, en el marco ciudadano de cada entorno museístico.
En ese sentido, la pertinencia del citado eslogan relanza, … Seguir leyendo
By Helena Kennedy. Baroness Helena Kennedy QC is a human rights lawyer and British Museum trustee (THE GUARDIAN, 28/03/06):
Two bundles held by the British Museum, made of kangaroo skin and closed by a drawstring, are unremarkable, but contain human ash gathered from a cremation fire by Tasmanian Aboriginals in about 1830. They are extremely rare physical traces of a population nearly exterminated during European settlement in the 19th century. This genocide, in which the indigenous people were shot for sport by farmers, was one of the most shameful episodes in British colonial history. The last full-blood Tasmanian Aboriginal … Seguir leyendo