Art historian and cultural manager Maribel López (Barcelona, 1973) has been chosen to direct the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona through an international competition. Having been the director of the Arco art fair in Madrid for the last eight years, she will return to her hometown, where she took her first professional steps. Maribel López will thus succeed Marko Daniel, who has been director of the foundation for eight years, until this past June, after the board of trustees "announced four months ago, by surprise, the end of his tenure just one month after renewing his contract for three years. López's name is a departure from the trajectory of the center's directors, who had always been experts in Miró and avant-garde art (Francesc Vicens, Rosa Maria Malet, and Marko Daniel), while his profile is more linked to management. López will have a four-year contract, extendable by two more, and a salary of 115,000 euros annually.

With the record number of plays on Spotify that it achieved LuxRosalía's latest albumIt's plausible to imagine that some of the people who attended Tuesday's presentation of Barcelona's cultural offerings at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid might have heard some of her new songs on their way to the event organized by Turisme de Barcelona. "The Palau de la Música Chamber Choir is featured on the album every day," asserted Joan Oller, general director of the Palau de la Música. "It was recorded at L'Auditori," added Víctor Medem, his counterpart at the Barcelona music venue. Valentí Oviedo, director of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, chimed in: "Rosalía hasn't sung at the Liceu, but I invite her to come and sing there whenever she wants. I'm not going to let the others down now," he joked.

The Joan Miró Foundation, with the support of the Generalitat de Catalunya and other institutions, began its 50th anniversary celebrations this June, looking to a future where this institution will continue to be a local, national, and international benchmark for contemporary art.

MNAC, Picasso, Thyssen, Reina Sofía, Guggenheim, Tate, MoMA, Van Gogh, Munch… All these museums have in common that the gifts they sell are designed in Barcelona. With a history spanning more than 30 years, Ming Productions is the company that designs many of the notebooks, magnets, stuffed animals, and mugs found in their stores. With factories in Badalona, ​​Montgat, and Dallas (United States), the company is the result of all the ideas that Benjamín Villa, its CEO and founder, could have.

Having to give space too often in this Good morning In the darkest catalogue of contemporary feales, you don't know with what joy I fill it today with the colours of Joan Miró, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the Foundation building that bears his name, in Montjuïc Park.