The Multiple Lives of the Gelman Collection: a Question of State and Bank Credit Guarantee

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Since the announcement at the beginning of the year of the transfer of the Gelman collection to Banco Santander, a formidable dust has been awakened that has forced the intervention of the president, Claudia Sheinbaum, to try to clarify the embrollo. Part of the Mexican art sector accuses the government of treating favor, opacity and lack of protection of a collection whose heart is armored by a strict heritage law, which limits the exits from t…