<![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - Art]]> 10 <![CDATA[Art Cologne returns to Palma almost 20 years later with 90 international galleries]]>

The world's oldest art fair, Art Cologne, will return to Palma almost two decades after its first attempt on the island. It will do so between April 9th and 12th with the participation of 90 galleries from about twenty countries, in a new edition that aims to establish itself within the international calendar.The event, which will be held at the Palau de Congressos under the name Art Cologne Palma Mallorca, will offer a journey ranging from modern and post-war art to emerging and ultra-contemporary proposals.

]]> <![CDATA[Art and gentrification]]> The social transformation that Mallorca has undergone in recent years, marked by mass tourism and foreign home purchases, has also reached the art world. Palma, which for decades was a hub of creativity, is seeing its art world blurring amidst strong economic and social pressure.

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The Fundació Miró Mallorca is taking a step forward and reaching out to the public with the Friends Program, a proposal that aims to transform the art center into a shared, lived-in space. It's not just about visiting the exhibitions, but about feeling part of a cultural community linked to the legacy of Joan Miró and Pilar Juncosa.

]]> <![CDATA[Caixafòrum Palma presents the new season: four exhibitions and several workshops]]>

Caixafòrum Palma will host four exhibitions on art and nature, color, and Javier and Rafa Forteza, among other activities and workshops designed for all audiences, this new 2025/2026 season. This was explained by Noemí Vallespir, Planning and Content Manager of Caixafòrum Palma, and Isabel Salgado, Director of the Exhibitions, Collection, and Caixafòrum+ Department of the "la Caixa" Foundation, at a press conference to present the new exhibition season.

]]> <![CDATA[The Santa Eugenia Performing Arts Showcase returns with 13 performances, workshops, and a moving tribute.]]>

Santa Eugenia is preparing to host the 26th edition of the Performing Arts Festival from September 4th to 6th. This year, the festival has a budget of €33,000 and maintains its characteristic participatory, supportive, and multidisciplinary spirit. The City Council emphasized the difficulty of sustaining a cultural event of this magnitude without supra-municipal support and criticized the fact that the Consell de Mallorca has not provided any subsidy for two years. Even so, the council and the town's community have made this new edition of an event possible, filling streets, squares, and rural spaces with culture and community.

]]> <![CDATA[A woman, Pollença and 35 years of art]]> Gordillo, Broto, Susana Solano, Joan Cortés, Aina Perelló, García Sevilla, Eva Lootz, Olimpia Velasco, Laia Ventayol, Lara Fluxà, Eulalia Valldosera, Núria Marquès, and a long list of equally interesting artists are the ones we in Mallorca owe thanks to the Maior gallery, which for 35 years.

]]> <![CDATA[Artificial cunning]]> Although artificial intelligence has only recently burst into our lives, the imprint it's beginning to have on it continues to grow. A little over a year ago, I was trying to interact with it to see how creative it was or how good its ideas were when it came to improving—or more aesthetically shaping—a story, and all it gave me were clichés and, let's say, low-level plot twists. The truth is, it must have some kind of limitation, not only creative but—let's put it this way—moral: it never conceives of one character killing another, for example, or of certain things happening that might undermine a fussy and cowardly cautious value system. As if conceiving "bad ideas" could be socially harmful, even if you specify that it's all fiction. Creatively, the machine is very good at reproducing and falsifying what exists, but not at creating new things. It's like those singers—or comedians—who go on television to imitate others, who can do it well and with a good voice, but who are then incapable of creating their own style, and we're not even talking about composing a song or inventing a good joke. He appropriates the work of painters and illustrators quite successfully—controversy arose when the option of transforming any image into a Miyazaki drawing was offered, for example… To tell the truth, however, there are other things he's starting to do that are worth considering: you can give him a literary text and he'll apparently assess its merits and demerits, although rather than providing useful and lucid literary criticism, he limits himself to pointing out four imponderables or advising you of improvements that don't commit to anything. He's still a terrible writing teacher. It seems to function like that mythical manual that was titled: How to talk about books you haven't read, by Pierre Bayard.

]]> <![CDATA[Photographs to close a museum]]> The Centre Pompidou in Paris will close for five years for renovations, and it couldn't have closed in a more spectacular way: in March it began by closing the library, a few days later the permanent collection, and during this summer and until September, the temporary exhibitions, the bookstore, and the shop. With one exception: the library, which no longer operates as such, will be open to the public from June 13 to September 22 in an exceptional way, intervening in an anthological exhibition by the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, designed specifically for this space, with the title Rien ne nuevos y preparar − Tout nuevos y preparar (Nothing prepared us – Everything prepared us).

]]> <![CDATA[Activist Vermouths: the professional days of the Sonsdenit festival]]>

This Thursday and Friday, Palma's Mar y Terra Theater will host Vermuts Activistes, a series of open-to-the-public events that, in a meeting format, also function as the professional conferences for the Sonsdenit 2025 festival. Designed for inquisitive people eager to understand how today's most daring cultural projects are constructed, the boundaries between disciplines, and how they open up new horizons of creation and thought. As the organizers emphasized in a press release, these events are a unique opportunity for anyone interested in music, film, poetry, theater, or creative processes in general, and especially for those who experience culture as a tool for change and social commitment.

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