José Manuel Costa
Madrid, 1949
Visual and sound art critic, journalist and exhibition curator.
He started working at Onda 2 radio and Radio 3, RNE and working at El País as a music critic and expert on the new trends that were just appearing on the horizon.
After directing Radio El País, he moved to La Luna de Madrid, where he occupied the post of deputy editor, before going on to the ABC daily and creating, along with Catalina Luca de Tena, the ABC Art Supplement, which would eventually evolve into the Cultural Supplement and later the ABCD. He has work as an ABC correspondent in BErlin and London.
After returning to Madrid as an editorial consultant, he was actively involved in restructuring the ABC's cultural supplement. He is a regular contributor to Arte Contexto magazine and he directs an alternative music programme on the Spanish radio network's Radio Clásica station and also curates exhibitions and organises festivals.