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Failings admitted in new wing of Reina Sofia Museum
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By h.b. - Mar 15, 2006 - 2:49 PM
The Director of the Reina Sofía Museum, Ana Martínez de Aguilar (left) talking to the President of the Culture Commission in Congress, Clementina Díez de Valdeón - Photo EFE
The Director of the Reina Sofía Museum, Ana Martínez de Aguilar (left) talking to the President of the Culture Commission in Congress, Clementina Díez de Valdeón - Photo EFE
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Spain Culture Round Up - Wed March 15 2006

The Director of the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid, Ana Martínez de Aguilar, has admitted that there are problems with the museums new expansion wing, designed by Jean Nouvel.
She admitted to water filtration last August. That was caused by a tap being left running on the roof, and the effect was that a work by Juan Gris was damaged.
The new building cost 92 million € and was opened in September last year after a six year building program.
The Museum Director also denied that she had any knowledge about the whereabouts of the missing sculpture by Richard Serra. The 38 ton work has been missing from the museums warehouses since 1990.

The author of ‘America Psycho’, Bret Easton Ellis, was in Madrid yesterday to promote his new novel ‘Lunar Park’ which the writer claims is about all those things which make us vulnerable. He told the press in the capital yesterday that he wanted to be open and honest.

British film director Peter Greenaway was in Seville yesterday to open a festival Zemos98 and to show ‘Tulse Luper VJ Performance’ written by Greenaway and said to unite violence with the power of Uranium, showing how nuclear energy has affected our lives since the end of the second world war. The work was projected onto three screens simultaneously in the Lope de Vega theatre.


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Readers' comments:
J. M.
15 Sep 2007, 19:01
Pro Ana

La mejor prueba de su independencia de Ana fue el furibundo ataque de las mangoneadoras de ARCO. Ella es la única directora del Reina con experiencia y con la titulación adecuada. Pero lo importante es que Ana tiene dotes demostradas para dirigir un museo. Ana hizo un plan museográfico que, los demás no hicieron ni mal ni bien. Ana ha soportado de todo pero es una gran mujer y no ha perdido la dignidad ni la calma ni los modales, ante tanta maldad y tanta bilis destilada por quienes ahora están ocupados de hacer leña del árbol caído. J. M.
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