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El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History brings together for the first time works by Spanish masters of the 16th-20th centuries. On display until March 28th you can engulf your senses in a culture so textured, where artists were encouraged and thrived. There are about 135 paintings nearly filling the museum. Organized by 15 distinct themes. This is a celebration of painting. Here the Goya's, Velasquez's, Zurbarán's, El Greco's, Ribera's, Dali's and Picasso's speak volumes, some so unexpected that you come back again to reflect. Cubism is a Spanish invention that evolved out of the work of visionary painters like Juan Sánchez Cotán and Antonio de Pereda. Then there are the still-life masters, and Zurbarán and El Greco, with their fixations on simple objects, abstracted flatness and space. The show starts with Zurbarán’s “Agnus Dei,” a sacral lamb, trussed and glowing in the darkness. A haunted vision as the cowled monks of “St. Hugh in the Refectory,” stand before a still life of bowls and bread. With Velázquez’s “Portrait of a Little Girl” and Picasso’s Velázquez’s Infanta Margarita María, from “Las Meninas” you can distinguish the gulf. One speaks to the deep fragility of childhood, the other creepy, with one red eye, painted in childlike scrawls. Velázquez’s freaks and Carreño’s fat children and Ribera’s martyrs are like scenes from a sideshow of life. Mysticism blurred with faith streams throughout this exhibit. Dalí’s fantasies and Goya's women raped and cannibals devouring their victims are like a nightmare of culture. Goya exhibits repressed sensuality and sex. “The Young Women,” a señorita in black with a panting lap dog, strutting her stuff under a parasol before a swarm of back-broken washerwomen, is clearly selling something. This is a culture long past chronicled by those prolific to capture its essence. There are 8 days left to admire and absorbed this fascinating exhibit.Coming next is the fiftieth anniversary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum-designed by America's architect supreme Frank Lloyd Wright. Exploring the in depth restoration and documentation of the building. This would be a must for any architect and that’s a F.A.C.T.