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How and what are Museums Collecting?

By Lucía Peñalosa   The criteria that museums use to acquire their works are not so different between one another. Collections are formed through more or less similar categories: bailment, donations and purchases. In the case of bailment, an artist,…

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The strange case of the Baroness

The strange case of the Baroness The history of art that we have been taught is boring. The names that make it up are generally great figures to admire. Similarly, the pieces of the canon of art stand out for…

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Can a scientific image be a work of art?

By Sybaris Collection The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) has incorporated into its collection the first photograph of a black hole, which is 55 million light years from our planet. The image is the result of about…

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All that shines is Jeff Koons

By Mariel Vela Jeff Koons is an undeniable figure, regardless of whether we agree with that statement or not. His work is practically inseparable from the shiny image he was forged of himself as an artist. Born January 21, 1955,…

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John Baldessari, the eternal return

John Baldessari, the eternal return Last Thursday, January 2, one of the most important names of conceptual art died at age 88. Creator of a complex work where written and visual language merges, Baldessari boldly mixed motives of everyday life…

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