Γενικά θέματα 25 Μαρτίου 2015

Barcelona museum chief resigns after row over sculpture of ex-Spanish king

The row at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (Macba) over an exhibition featuring a sculpture apparently depicting Spain’s former King Juan Carlos being sodomized has ended with the resignation of the institution’s director, Bartomeu Marí.

But in a final act of his tenure Marí also dismissed, with immediate effect, the two people responsible for the show, chief curator Valentín Roma and head of public programs Paul B. Preciado, because of an “irrecoverable loss of trust.”

Both curators had refused Marí’s request to withdraw the artwork from the La bestia y el soberano (or, The beast and the ruler) exhibition after he deemed it “inappropriate,” leading him to take the unprecedented decision of canceling the entire show last Wednesday

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