The Art Broadsheet of the Costa del Sol · Ars longa, vita brevis
The Costa's biggest international art fair fills the Palacio de Congresos with 5,000 works, 80 countries and the unmistakable scent of ambition — and somewhere in the crowd, something real.
Three Málaga rooms this week hold three relics — Juanjo Fuentes's newly opened beast, Manzoni's unopenable tin at the Pompidou, and Verónica Ruth Frías eating the canon at MUCAC, which closes tonight.
A 30-euro entry fee, a single day's admission, a theme that shifted after the finalists were picked, and a voting system that thanked you for a vote you never cast - Bioparc Fuengirola's 25th-anniversary photography competition is a masterclass in how not to run a contest.
A coast that spent half a century selling its sunlight finally remembered it could see by it - and the strangers who washed ashore brought the lens.