Word: etruscan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world frets about is how Varnedoe, whose appointment as director of painting and sculpture at MOMA has made him America's most powerful museum figure in the modern and contemporary field, will represent all its factional interests. Hence his every action is scrutinized and picked to bits, as Etruscan haruspices once examined sacrificial livers for a sign of the future...
...remarks in the catalog. "Fortunately, most of the worst errors are our own, the result of nearly 2 1/2 centuries of collecting." The reluctance to fess up may account for the absence from this show of some of the real lulus of American public collections, such as the fake Etruscan warriors that until some 30 years ago were star exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City...