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...this seems to be true is Antonio Lopez Garcia, whose paintings, drawings and sculpture are currently on view at the Marlborough Gallery in New York City. At 50, Lopez bears a large reputation in his native Spain and has become (no avoiding the term) a cult figure among younger Madrid painters. In New York, whose sense of current European art can be irritatingly provincial, he is scarcely known at all. The main reason for this--apart from the difficulty some people have in judging serious figurative painting and distinguishing it from common illustration--is that Lopez works with fanatical slowness...
Mexican government officials have been pressing U.S. banks and other lenders to relax their terms and extend to the country at least an additional $4 billion in new loans. President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado warned that bankers must share "the responsibility and sacrifice" of solving Mexico's financial ills. So far, though, creditors have been wary of risking new money...
Meanwhile, tens of thousands of Mexicans have demonstrated against austerity measures that De la Madrid has imposed since 1982 in an effort to pay interest on the country's loans. The belt tightening has slashed government spending, shoved the economy into a painful recession, and boosted unemployment to about 15%. "The political system is being pushed into a corner," says Jonathan Heath, senior economist for Ciemex-Wharton, the Mexican division of Philadelphia-based Wharton Econometric. "A lot of people in the government want default, and though they are not the ones with the most clout now, at any given moment...
...instruction in reading music that his father, a teacher, gave him while he grew up in Seattle, and a theory course in high school. At 14 he joined Koleda, a local, semiprofessional Balkan dance group, where he stomped out the folkloric rhythms. Three years later he went to Madrid and spent six months studying flamenco. After he returned to the U.S. his performing experience continued to be wildly varied: Lar Lubovitch, Laura Dean, Eliot Feld. He never stayed anywhere very long. His own group began coming together five years ago. Like their leader, most Morris dancers are not built along...
...statue of Christopher Columbus, tall atop a rococo column in the spacious Madrid plaza, gazed off toward the New World as more than 750,000 Spaniards gathered in the square and streets and parks around it. Chanted the crowd: "NATO no! Bases...