Like many Europeans, Juan Antonio Gaya-Nuňo, director of Madrid's Velasquez Institute, becomes outraged whenever he thinks about the steady flight of European art treasures to the U.S. But he does not put all the blame on the Americans. Says he, in the French magazine Connaissance des Arts: It is selfish and dollar-mad Europeans who have really done the damage.
The only art treasures that are safe, says Gaya-Nuňo. are those in the big museums: the best of the private collections seem "irretrievably destined to emigrate to the U.S.. if not in this generation then during the next." The great museums of Europe...
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