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• Metropolitan Diary

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  
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• The Man Who Conned The Pentagon

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 518
  The Man Who Conned The Pentagon Playboy doing what it does best: publishing stories that more respectable publications won’t touch: The weeks before Christmas brought no hint of terror. But by the afternoon of December 21, 2003, police stood guard in heavy assault gear on the streets of Manhattan. Fighter ...
  2 days ago

• Inside Art: When Famous Owners Sell Famous Paintings

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  “St. Dorothy” by Zurbarán, owned by Dorothy Cherry, will be put up for auction on Jan. 28 at Sothebys. It is expected to sell for $3 million to $4 million.
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• Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Nativity Scene at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

  
  NYC ? NYC — Authority: 123
  T he Metropolitan Museum of Art presents its annual Christmas tree, a favorite of New Yorkers and visitors from around the world. A vivid 18th-century Neapolitan Nativity scene—embellished with small, lifelike attendant figures and hovering, silk-robed angels—adorn the candlelit spruce. Merry Christmas.
  4 days ago

• Too Hot Not to Cop: Judith Leiber Heart N Soul Clutch

  
  Killahbeez — Authority: 143
  A handbag can make or break an outfit. There ain’t nothin’ more disappointing than seeing a girl dressed to the nines for a night on the town with nothing to stash her goods in but her massive, everyday tote. This ain’t to hate on over-sized bags. There’s a time and a place. At night though, when you’re ...
  5 days ago

• The New York Times and the Met: Too close for comfort (again)?

  
  Cultural Heritage in Danger — Authority: 106
  In The New York Times December 16 article. Andrew Jacobs writes about a Chinese delegation’s recent visit to US museums to document objects that have been plundered from Yuanmingyuan (Beijing’s “Old Summer Palace”). In 1860, the imperial palace was looted and burnt to the ground by order of James Bruce ...
  6 days ago

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

  
  Real Clear Arts — Authority: 425
  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: 904
  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: 904
  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: 120
  "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: 487
  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: 423
  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. ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Not a Candy Cigarette

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 486
  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! ]]
  2 weeks ago

• An Appraisal: A Populist Museum Chief With a Sense of Wonder

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  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: 112
  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”). ...
  2 weeks ago

• Judith Leiber’s Charming Clutches

  
  Killahbeez — Authority: 143
  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: 127
  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: 422
  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: 904
  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.
  2 weeks ago

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