El niño que aprendió a volar

The Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (MNAV) celebrated its first centennial in December of 2011. The museum and the building that houses it has endured transformations and different names throughout these 100 years. This is the first time that the history of the Museum is presented in a single volume; until now only scattered documentation, catalogues, folders and press releases existed. The editorial proposal included the participation of three former directors -Ángel Kalenberg, Jacqueline Lacasa and Mario Sagradini- that gave testimony of their experience, which accounts for forty-one...

When her parents are divorced, Theo comes to live with Lea's father and Lea and Theo become friends, but the relationship ends and Theo leaves for Athens. Lea misses her so much that when she comes of age she determines to find her again.

With profound texts, through an agile presentation and complemented by more than four hundred full-color illustrations, Rosa Giorgi shows us paintings, frescoes, sculptures, engraved codices, and engravings populated by the most amazing heavenly and demonic figures, ranging from seraphs and cherubs, to the riders of the Apocalypse, demonic possessions and exorcisms, purgatory and paradise.

Uno viene al mundo para crear, innovar, emprender (¡eso nos dicen los expertos y el mercado!) y esos humanos son los indispensables. Pero cuando uno no puede crear se convierte en experto o profesor para explicar o pensar lo que otros crean, innovan, emprenden. Y si no pudo ser ni creador, ni experto, ni profesor deviene crítico (o sea, gorrón del sistema) que busca decir algo con sentido sobre lo que otros crean, opinan o piensan. Y como cada vez hay más creadores, innovadores, emprendedores, expertos y profesores... pues quedan menos críticos. Y como en el siglo xxi hay que tener buena ...