La estadounidense Patti Smith, premio Princesa de Asturias de las Artes, ha recordado este martes durante una rueda de prensa en Oviedo que “la gente tiene el poder, aunque a veces sientan que no es así” y en estos momentos lo que necesita EE UU es “que la gente use ese poder, que se levante, se una y vote”. Así, ha indicado que para ella es difícil hablar de la situación actual de su país, con “un liderazgo deplorable”.

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Explaining the world through images. Humanity has been doing it for millennia: from cave paintings to photography, cinema, living-room television and the omnipresent screens of today. Over the past decades, if there is anyone who has known how to create emotion through images, that is George Lucas, 82, director, writer, producer and the creative mind behind phenomena that have shaped contemporary culture, such as the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises. And his eye for visual narratives has not been limited to film: for decades (funded by the lucrative returns of cinema), he has also devoted himself to art collecting, and possesses an immense collection of roughly 40,000 works that he has now decided to share with the world.

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