Two big traveling art shows prepared to hit the road leaving broken records behind them. At Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum the Van Gogh exhibition (TIME, Oct. 31) closed last week after a three-month stand. The paintings of the lonely Dutchman who sold only two canvases in his lifetime had set an alltime Met record (302,553 at 50¢ a head) for a single exhibition.
In Washington, the $80 million Habsburg collection with its rich Titians, Rubenses and Velasquezes (TIME, Dec. 5) had drawn more than 800,000, admission free, in 40 days. Though short of the 964,970...