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...restaurant in Washington. "I think some other French ambassador might be affected socially by what's happened," said the wife of one U.S. official, "but not the Alphands, because they entertain so beautifully." This judgment appeared a little premature. The perfect hosts proved pretty picky guests at a Mona Lisa preview dinner later in the week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The way U.N. officials got it, the invites were already out when Alphand balked at discovering that U.N. Secretary-General U Thant was among the honored guests. It was, sniffed Alphand, a strictly Franco-American...
...sort of thing that could only happen in an America suddenly hooked on art: one day last week the Mona Lisa passed Whistler's Mother on the New Jersey Turnpike...
...Mona was wending her enigmatic way from Washington, via air-conditioned van, to Manhattan, where she went on view for 3½ weeks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Despite rain, slush and bone-cracking cold, a crowd of 23,872 queued up in three-block-long lines on the first day to make frostbitten obeisance before the lady with the greenish face in her bulletproof, heat-and-humidity-controlled shrine...
...Though even a viewer himself might not be able to separate how much of his own feeling was curiosity and how much was appreciation, there was plainly plenty of tourism, celebrity-seeking, and status-hunting about the current crush to see the Mona Lisa. Half a million people ''passed in front of it," to use a gallery phrase, in the 3½ weeks in Washington, assuring the museum of a record attendance in 1963, giving thousands little more than a reason to say, "I saw it." There was a general atmosphere of keep-moving which interfered with tranquil...
With or without the hoopla, Americans have become ardent supporters of museums, attentive readers of art news. Scarcely had Leonardo's Mona Lisa been removed from its shrouding of maroon drapery (which the gallery force had christened "Mona's kimona"), when a courtly ceremony took place in Washington's National Gallery. Italian Chargé d'Affaires Gian Luigi Milesi Ferretti, Chief Justice Earl Warren and Attorney General Robert Kennedy stood before a throng of art enthusiasts to unveil two small paintings on wood illustrating the labors of Hercules by the 15th century Italian painter Pollaiuolo, recently...