Jesús García Calero: The Museum

Macron’s visit to the Louvre Museum has interesting readings, some pyramidal and other underground. When a cultural institution such as the Louvre has problems, we can infer that its condition as a country’s core symbol converts its cracks into metaphors of the chief … of the nation. In France they are not missing, as we have seen for a long time; In a country of strong cultural imprint that slides in such a way by its internal, so diverse paradoxes, that its problems seem more difficult to unravel.

But it is known that there are leaks and wear of materials and there the president goes as a firefighter to take a symbolic bathroom of essences and to drive himself with the gioconda in the plane of the televised selfi. Here in Spain the Prado Museum enjoys better health and resists representing the choice that politics is perpetrating in our national cohesion. Is that the meadow is more, as Azaña said. Spain is today represented with more loyalty in the symbolic and cultural universe than in Real, we are so lost. The entire public conversation is beyond the issues that matter.

And if there are leaks in the National Library, such as those that were there, there must be three or four inflows for a minister like Urtasun to appear. The president was only there to make Luis Martín-Santos a historical member of the PSOE, what a shame. And so the siege of culture continues by politics, which dreams of becoming a piece of a museum, and while in ‘Belén’ living.

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