Valentín Roma appointed new director of MACBA after controversial past at the museum
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Valentín Roma, a writer, art historian, and PhD in Philosophy, has been appointed as the new director of the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). He previously led La Virreina Centre de la Imatge for nine years. The article also notes that Roma was dismissed from his previous role as chief curator at MACBA in 2015 due to controversy over an exhibition featuring a sculpture depicting the sodomization of King Juan Carlos.
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El escritor e historiador del arte fue destituido en 2015 de su puesto como conservador jefe en el Museu por la polémica que provocó la inclusión de una escultura en la que se que sodomizaba al rey Juan Carlos en una exposición
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