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• Tom Campbell, After Almost One Year On the Met Job

  
  Real Clear Arts — Authority: 126
  What was the first thing Thomas P. Campbell did last January when he assumed his new job as head of the  Metropolitan Museum *?  That was one of the questions Campbell encountered on Wednesday night, when he addessed a forum sponsored by the Alliance for the Arts and the New York Times. Campbell spoke -- ...
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• Margaret B. Young, Black Educator and Writer, Dies at 88

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  Mrs. Young, the widow of the civil rights leader Whitney Young Jr., wrote several books for children on the African-American experience.
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• Art Review | 5,000 Years of Japanese Art: Cleaning Out Closets, Reuniting Old Friends

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  The Mets Packard Collection exhibition includes “The Old Plum,” a 17th-century screen painting with Chinese influences by Kano Sansetsu. It has returned from a recent trip to Japan.
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• Chinas Repatriation Team Visits the Met

  
  Illicit Cultural Property — Authority: 121
  "That wasnt so bad after all" So said James C.Y. Watt, the head of Asian art at the Met after a team of Chinese experts visited the institution looking for objects which had once been at the Chinese Old Summer Palace in Beijing.  China has been looking to buy or repatriate objects from the Old Summer Palace.  The ...
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• Holiday Shopping in New Yorks Best Museum Shops: A List

  
  Walking Off the Big Apple — Authority: 486
  Shops attached to museums have advanced way beyond Claude Monet totes, a Rembrandt calendar, Degas notecards and a Van Gogh refrigerator magnet. Those were the Dark Ages of museum merchandising. The great museum shops of contemporary New York feature hundreds of well-designed gifts and collectibles, each reaching out ...
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• Art: New York City Mourns the Death of Thomas Hoving

  
  The Luxe Chronicles — Authority: 421
  I was saddened to learn last week of the death of Thomas Hoving , former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. His memoir, “Making the Mummies Dance” (1992) and another book "False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes" (1996) had a lasting impact on how I approach and consume art. ...
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• Sunday, December 13, 2009

  
  Ink In My Coffee — Authority: 126
  Elsa thinks decorating is exhausting! Sunday, December 13, 2009 Waning Moon Sleet and cold We’ve had heat the past few days (amazing, the super goes away, there’s a substitute, and we have heat. Unfortunately, there’s no hot water this morning. Urgh. Yesterday was a pretty decent day. Got a lot of ...
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• Not a Candy Cigarette

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 482
  This amazing photo titled "Candy Cigarette" was taken by Sally Mann in 1989. When I first saw this photograph, a few months ago, I was moved by the pure emotion and intensity of the girl. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• An Appraisal: A Populist Museum Chief With a Sense of Wonder

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  Thomas Hoving, scrutinizing Greuzes “Aegina Visited by Jupiter.”
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• Hoving’s death a reminder of need for art–and marketing

  
  James McPherson's Media & Politics Blog — Authority: 115
  Thomas Hoving, controversial former director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art , died yesterday. Because of what Hoving did for art, his death was deemed worthy of a front-page story in today’s print edition of the New York Times (and of  a story this morning on NPR’s “Morning Edition”). ...
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• Judith Leiber’s Charming Clutches

  
  Killahbeez — Authority: 440
  Holidays are approaching. Actually, they’re here… Dec 1st means people have free reign to start booking parties. Those parties will require you to look fabulous and part of looking fabulous means having a great clutch. Enter Judith Leiber. Okay…maybe Leiber’s super expensive clutches aren’t in your budget, ...
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• Met Museum former director Thomas Hoving dies at 78

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 129
  Image via Wikipedia Thomas Hoving, the charismatic showman and treasure hunter whose tenure as director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1967 to 1977 fundamentally transformed the institution and helped usher in the era of the museum blockbuster show, died on Thursday at his home in Manhattan. He was 78. ...
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• Thomas Hoving

  
  LARRY ROIBAL — Authority: 124
  Ball point pen on the morning newsprint Square foot for square foot, there is no place on earth I find more inspiring than the Metropolitan Museum of Art. That sentiment, shared by so many, is in no small part due to it’s charismatic director from 1967 to 1977 Thomas Hoving, who passed away on Thursday from lung ...
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• Art Review: Art Deco Furniture Designs That Jazzed Up an Age

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  Passing through the array of Art Deco furnishings at the Metropolitan Museum can make visions of gray fox wraps, diamond-studded cigarette holders and Josephine Baker dance in your head.
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• Thomas Hoving, Bold Remaker of the Met, Dies at 78

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 167
  Mr. Hoving transformed the Metropolitan Museum of Art during his tumultuous decade-long tenure as director.
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• Omni Daily News

  
  Omnivoracious — Authority: 592
  Thomas Hoving (1921-2009) :  Former Metropolitan Museum of Art director, art historian, and author Thomas Hoving died today at the age of 78.  Hoving, a pioneering and controversial figure in the art world who launched the era of "blockbuster" exhibitions at the Met, wrote the bestselling tell-all, Making the ...
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• Robert Frank and Jacob Holdt: Documenting America

  
  Flavorwire — Authority: 687
  Outsiders often observe a side of society that those living within naively overlook or simply accept. Such are the situations in Swiss photographer Robert Frank’s seminal series of black-and-white photos, The Americans, which he shot during road trips across the US in the mid-‘50s; and Danish photographer Jacob ...
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• Thomas Hoving, Who Shook Up the Met, Dies at 78

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  Thomas Hoving in 1969.
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• Thomas Hoving, Former Met Director, Dead at 78

  
  The New York Observer — Authority: 756
  Thomas Hoving—controversial former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art—died today of cancer, reports author Michael Gross. Hoving first worked at the Met in 1959, and though he left for a brief stint as parks commissioner, he returned to the museum to become its director in 1967. During his 10 years there, ...
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• Tom Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan ... [Obits]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 863
  Tom Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum Art, died this morning, reports Michael Gross.
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