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Spanish Art: Exhibitionism
西班牙藝術：展覽主義
The Prado's renaissance.
普拉多的文藝復興。
At the turn of this century the Prado, Spain's premier art museum, slumbered in neglect.
本世紀之交，西班牙首屈一指的美術館普拉多一度退出公眾視野，處于沉寂當中。
Limited opening hours and an almost complete lack of information about its paintings seemed calculated to put off visitors.
開放時間有限而且幾乎完全缺乏畫展信息，這似乎是在有意敷衍游客。
Deliverance came with a law in 2003 granting it autonomy from the civil service.
隨著2003年法律出臺保障其自治權，普拉多獲得自由。
Before that the museum's staff ran the place in their own interest and the director had little power, says Eduardo Serra, a former defence minister who as chair of the Prado's trustees pushed the law through.
在此之前博物館的管理人員根據自身利益進行運作，館長幾乎沒有權力，前任國防部長Eduardo Serra如是說。他同時是普拉多推進出臺法律的受托公司的董事長。
To implement it he hired Miguel Zugaza, a shrewd manager, as director.
為了實施變革，他雇傭精明能干的Miguel Zugaza擔任館長。
Miguel Falomir, who was appointed as Mr Zugaza's successor on March 21st, inherits a Prado that is flourishing.
Miguel Falomir于3月21日被任命為Zugaza先生的繼任者，接手蓬勃發展的普拉多。
It attracts 3m visitors a year.
普拉多每年吸引三百萬游客。
It has weathered state funding cuts: about 70% of its budget of 45 million euros ($49m) now comes from tickets, merchandising, fees from foreign exhibitions and sponsorship.
這經受住了國家資金削減的考驗：其總預算為4500萬歐元，其中70%來自門票，商品銷售，國外展覽費用和贊助費的收益。
Above all, the Prado has shed its provincialism.
最重要的是，普拉多脫離了狹隘主義。
“It was very introverted,” says Mr Falomir, an expert on Titian.
提香研究專家Falomir 先生說，“之前它相當封閉”。
It used to mount exhibitions only of Spanish painting.
普拉多過去只舉辦西班牙繪畫展覽。
When it branched out, with shows on Rubens and Titian, colleagues across Europe and America were sceptical.
當它開拓領域，舉辦有關魯本斯和提香的展覽時，歐洲和美國的同事表示懷疑。
“Not any more,” he adds.
“再沒有其他的了”，他補充說。
Last summer's blockbuster exhibition of three-quarters of the surviving work of Hieronymus Bosch was one that only the Prado, with its large Bosch collection, could have organised.
去年夏天普拉多展出了希羅寧姆斯·博希四分之三的現存作品，轟動一時，也只有普拉多擁有如此之多博希的藏品，能夠組織得起這樣規模的展覽。
Mr Falomir still faces challenges.
Falomir先生仍然面臨挑戰。館內禁止拍照和自拍。
All museums must cope with mass tourism.
博物館必須能應對大量游客。
譯文來源考研英語時事閱讀
