Serious-minded Americans love to idealize the French movie industry, but as French cinephiles tend to see it, it’s their own filmmakers who shy away from tough issues.
How refreshing to discuss an art museum director whose bona fides are not the millions he has raised or the buildings he has built or the architects he has hired but the art he has studied and illuminated.
“Goya in Times of War” at the Prado in Madrid is most memorable for pictures less famous, some rarely or never seen — still lifes and portraits — many from obscure collections.