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This week the Brooklyn Museum will proudly open what it can boast is the most comprehensive exhibition ever of Nubia's ancient civilization, spanning 47 centuries and comprising 250 objects borrowed from some 25 institutions, including some cajoled from museums in East Germany and Poland by Bernard V. Bothmer, curator of the museum's superb Egyptian collection and organizer of the exhibition...
...celebrate the 150th anniversary of its founding, the Brooklyn Museum has assembled a rare collection of objects from Amenhotep's reign, largely through the efforts of Curator Bernard V. Bothmer, who has spent three years negotiating the loans. Some 200 in all, the objects range from beautifully incised bas-reliefs of domestic life to sensitively molded small heads of princesses, high officials and the merely young...
DIETRICH VON BOTHMER Curator of Greek and Roman Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City...
...five percent of ancient art material in this country has been smuggled in," Cooney said. "If the museums began to send back all the smuggled material to their countries of origin, the museum walls would be bare." Back at the Met, Curator of Greek and Roman Art Dietrich von Bothmer reacted to Cooney's words. "It's so crude," he said...
...reputable dealer who got it from a European collection where it had rested since "before World War I." With the atmosphere already full of acrimony over Met policies (TIME, Feb. 26), the museum's officials were aloof and cautious. The curator of Greek and Roman Art, Dietrich von Bothmer, did admit that Hecht was the dealer. But at first he refused to identify Hecht's source, adding with either remarkable disingenuousness or extraordinary lack of judgment that the name was difficult to spell and he couldn't remember it. Eventually, under pressure, Bothmer produced that hard...