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Tuesday, 8th June of 2010

NY and the new transience of art spaces

X-initiative Space.

Until 2004, 548 West 22nd street in New York was the home of the Dia Art Foundation, one of the main institutions in the city. Founded in 1974 to support the new needs of the artists of the time, it required large-scale and technically complex or long-lasting projects, which could not be conducted in traditional institutions –as is the case of the 7000 Oak Trees by Joseph Beuys, Broken Kilometer by Walter de María, or his Field of Lightning–, it closed its doors in the city in order to install its spectacular collection upstate –with artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Michael Heizer, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra and Robert Smithson. The reason for the closure: the space no longer fulfilled the needs of the institution(1).

Primavera 2010: The Greatest

Cortesía: Primavera Sound

Magnetised by a simply spectacular line-up, a perfect balance between nostalgia and modernity, a hundred thousand music fans invaded, this weekend, the Parc of the Forum during the most multitudinous edition of this classic Barcelona festival. They are fans not only of music, it is true, but also of fashion and beer, as it was difficult to see a face free from the ubiquitous retro-style sunglasses or a hand not holding a cold and foaming glass, which leads me to suspect that the main sponsors of the event must be more than satisfied. If sponsorship involves the ability to organise this kind of line-up, you are welcome, you monsters of market research.