Thomas Hoving's Books
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St. Louis Mag, April 8, 2013
...right reasons. One of the greatest shows I ever saw was the father of all blockbusters, Tutankhamun, under Thomas Hoving. Yeah, it was a blockbuster, but it was a great one. The quality, and the excitement of what we were seeing....and of course there...
Washington Times, April 5, 2013
...Jonathon KeatsOxford University Press, $19.95, 197 pages Fakes have long been a plague of the art world. Thomas Hoving, the late director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, estimated that he had examined some 50,000 pieces of art in his day, and that...
The Scotsman, February 15, 2013
...the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art – despite neither her, nor the museum’s director, Thomas Hoving, wanting her in the job. Her remit was "generating ideas for exhibitions,
organising them, and seeing them through; suggesting...
Decatur Daily, November 18, 2012
...Special to The Daily AMERICAN GOTHIC: The Biography of Grant Wood’s Masterpiece. By Thomas Hoving. Chamberlain Brothers, 176 pages, $13, paperback. Grant Wood is an icon of American painting. Almost the … More » This item is available in full...
Forbes.com, November 7, 2012
...making bistre to techniques for tinting paper, the book was deemed in a review by former Met director Thomas Hoving to be "delightful and thoroughly dangerous." At last anybody could learn to make art forensically indistinguishable from the work of...
New York Daily News, October 28, 2012
...s no historical evidence of the two carrying on. At the forefront is the business of art forgery. Thomas Hoving, the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, once estimated that 40% of the art that came to market in a given year is forged. A...
Art and Antiques, July 2, 2012
...for whom Medici acted as middleman, offered the kylix, which he had acquired from Medici, to Met director Thomas Hoving. As Silver reports, although Hoving and his antiquities curator, Dietrich von Bothmer, were “mightily tempted” to buy the chalice,...
Weston-Redding-Easton Patch, November 27, 2012
...the country. Honorary members have included such luminaries as Sir Winston Churchill, Buckminster Fuller, Paul Cadmus, Al Hirschfeld, Thomas Hoving and Schuyler Chapin. Intimidated? Don’t be. Mr. Newton will provide his audience with the...
Decatur Daily, November 18, 2012
...Special to The Daily AMERICAN GOTHIC: The Biography of Grant Wood’s Masterpiece. By Thomas Hoving. Chamberlain Brothers, 176 pages, $13, paperback. Grant Wood is an icon of American painting. Almost the … More » This item is available in full...
Forbes.com, November 7, 2012
...making bistre to techniques for tinting paper, the book was deemed in a review by former Met director Thomas Hoving to be "delightful and thoroughly dangerous." At last anybody could learn to make art forensically indistinguishable from the work of...
Denver Post, October 29, 2012
...Frederic Tcheng, Harper's Bazaar, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mick Jagger, Oscar de la Renta, Thomas Hoving, Vogue Diana Vreeland, in her famous red living room in Manhattan, photographed by Horst P. Horst. More than two...
New York Daily News, October 28, 2012
...s no historical evidence of the two carrying on. At the forefront is the business of art forgery. Thomas Hoving, the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, once estimated that 40% of the art that came to market in a given year is forged. A...
Denver Post, October 26, 2012
...Frederic Tcheng, Harper's Bazaar, Lisa Immordino Vreeland, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mick Jagger, Oscar de la Renta, Thomas Hoving, Vogue Diana Vreeland, in her famous red living room in Manhattan, photographed by Horst P. Horst. More than two...
Psychology Today, October 25, 2012
...infections. Fake is very popular these days. Fake art has been around for millennia and remains highly profitable. Thomas Hoving, former director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum, estimates at least 15% of old master paintings and older decorative...
