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...Lucia Velazquez, who has lived in the apartments since they were established in 1971, said last night that the move will spell the end of the Charlesview she is familiar with...
...fact, the Prado Museum houses artwork dating only until the mid-nineteenth century. Its existing collection is certainly nothing short of impressive—greatness covered every inch of the innumerable walls. In fact, the vast quantity of paintings by the old Spanish Masters, El Greco, Goya, and Velazquez, particularly struck me. El Greco’s “Crucifixion” was moving, Goya’s “Shootings of the Third of May” chilling, and Velazquez’s “Las Meninas,” the museum’s obvious...
...Petting Zoo follows “a hotshot painter” who has a nervous breakdown after viewing the work of seventeenth-century Spanish painter Diego Velazquez at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. As Carroll explains, “he thinks he sees in Velazquez’s work a spiritual element…and he thinks his paintings and those of his contemporaries are spiritually bereft.” The young painter then spends 72 hours in a psychological observation unit–“because they can do that if they think you?...
...DIED. CONSUELO VELAZQUEZ, 84, classically trained Mexican pianist-turned-pop composer, whose sultry World War II-era ballad Besame Mucho became one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, covered by artists including Sammy Davis Jr., Celine Dion, Jose Carreras and The Beatles; in Mexico City. In a 2003 interview, Velazquez revealed that when she wrote the famous lyrics at age 17?"Kiss me over and over, as if this night were the last time"?she had never been kissed...
DIED. CONSUELO VELAZQUEZ, 88, classically trained Mexican pianist turned pop composer whose sultry World War II--era ballad Besame Mucho became one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, covered by such artists as Frank Sinatra and the Beatles; in Mexico City...