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...holding a party for the Fords at the Spanish embassy, Juan Carlos and his blonde Queen jetted to New York for the windup of their four-day visit. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, they inaugurated a display of eight Goyas that were lent by Madrid's Prado, including both naked and clothed Majas. In Fort Greene Park, across the East River, Juan Carlos presented a bronze plaque at the monument to the Brooklyn Martyrs-the 12,000 men who died aboard British prison ships in nearby Wallabout Bay during the Revolutionary War. Most of the dead were Americans...
...would be pleasant but wildly optimistic to hope that every other picture in the exhibition in which this portrait of Philip IV may be seen-"The Golden Age of Spanish Painting," organized by the Prado's director, Xavier de Salas, at London's Royal Academy, through March 14-were at this august level...
Quite a few are: there are five other Velásquezes and five major El Grecos, including that overwhelming trumpet voluntary, the Prado's huge Annunciation of 1600. There are works by Francisco Ribalta and his great junior Jose de Ribera, a group of paintings by Zurbarán-including an exquisite still-life of cream and ocher pots drawn up like liturgical vessels on a table...
...main streets of the downtown area were quiet now, in contrast to the bustle of the tourists, businessmen, cocaine-pushers (La Paz is the cocaine capital of the world). I walked past the neon signs of the restaurants and clubs that dotted the fashionable blocks of the Prado, La Paz's most fashionable street...
...best contemporary painters are Spanish: Joan Miró, Salvador Dali, the late Pablo Picasso and the late Juan Gris. Of these, the greatest is Dali. At least those are his opinions, delivered during a speech entitled "Velásquez and I" at the Prado. Madrid's al ta sociedad was on hand-but museum authorities were not-for the vernissage of the only contemporary painting in the famous gallery: Dali's portrait of a lady riding a horse as in a surrealist dream. His subject: Francó's granddaughter Carmencita, Princess Alfonso de Borb...