Spanish Painting From El Greco to Picasso - The Guggenheim - New York

“As such affairs go, “Spanish Painting” is very grand and quite marvelous, avoiding the familiar piety of the standard masterpiece potpourri by virtue of its eloquent installation in the museum’s loopy ramp, still the weirdest-coolest place to look at art and at other people looking at art. The show has the great advantage of its veteran curator, Carmen Giménez, who spent years working on it with Francisco Calvo Serraller, the former Prado director. There simply hasn’t been an overview of Spanish art like this in New York, including the Metropolitan’s luminous “Manet/Velázquez” a few years back. The city is not exactly bereft of great Spanish painting, but no doubt people who don’t bother to look in the permanent galleries at the Met or at the Hispanic Society across town, from which several works have been sent, will visit the Guggenheim. Such is our unfortunate blockbuster culture.”

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