A quick tour. Almost as you leave, in a room to the left of the entrance, full of snail-shaped porcelain and furniture with animal inlays, in shell, tortoise and mother-of-pearl. On the right wall, below, half hidden, with the Inventory number 933-190 corresponding to the WS Box of Room 7, dedicated to Europe between 1600 and 1815, in a gallery whose name celebrates the protection of Sheikha Amna Bint Mohammed Al Thani, from the house of the Qatari monarchs – those who are putting a price on world art – a red fabric with motifs in shades of blue and yellow.

Dating between 1680 and 1720, this portion of a tapestry caught Dr. Podgorny's curiosity.

On April 23, the 59th International Art Exhibition was inaugurated in Venice, curated by Cecilia Alemani, an Italian by origin, who chose the title of a book of stories by Leonora Carrington -“The milk of dreams”- to build a complex, surprising exhibition.

From the Río de la Plata, Uruguay selected a proposal full of symbols. With the curatorship of Laura Malosetti Costa and Pablo Uribe, the artist Gerardo Goldwasser constructed his Persona by drawing on the memory of a family trade.

From Hilario we invited Malosetti Costa to write to us about her experience. In an intimate tone text, she gave us her expert and sensitive look.

The first authorization granted to send books to the Río de la Plata was signed in 1534 and the Franciscan religious were its beneficiaries. These works carried the mission of catechizing the native populations, which is why books of romance or imagination -the popular chivalric novels- were prohibited, since it was feared that the indigenous would read those pernicious texts, so far from the path of God, and " learn vices and bad habits. The royal certificates and even more, the measures dictated by the agents of the Holy Office -the Inquisition had very demanding courts- provoked the censorship of the prohibited titles, although some authors maintain, there were always loopholes through which they traveled to Latin America.

Around the same time, Carlos V had approved Bishop Zumárraga's request to set up a printing press and a paper mill in Mexico City. (...)