Plácido Arango, a businessman and arts patron, was appointed the president of the board of the Prado in Madrid on 26th,July. At a meeting of the trustees chaired by Spain’s minister of culture, César Antonio Molina, Mr. Arango, a member of the board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1991, was the unanimous choice to succeed Rodrigo Uría, who died of a heart attack last week while on vacation in Croatia. He was 66.