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Texas A&M administrators are unabashed about their willingness to shower lucre on a few desirable luminaries. "We're interested in attracting key people of high quality for our faculty," says Pieter Groot, the university's assistant vice president for academic budgets. "In order to get these professors, we have to go to higher salaries...
This attitude is grounded in a keen awareness of the academic marketplace. In an age when job opportunities for Ph.D.s vary widely from discipline to discipline. Texas A&M pays close attention to competition outside the university in setting faculty salaries. Groot says...
Shirley K. De Groot Eureka...
...historians, critics and the Art Dealers' Association of America; one prominent scholar, John Rewald, wrote an article in Art in America demanding Hoving's resignation. Then the Met revealed another secret deal with Marlborough. At first it seemed that the museum had swapped two more De Groot paintings, a Modigliani and a Juan Gris, for Becca, a sculpture by David Smith and a painting by California Artist Richard Diebenkorn. Later the Met disclosed that the swap had cost the Met not two but six works - another Gris, a Bonnard, a Picasso and a Renoir...
Marlborough has now picked up six paintings as nearly pure cream from the De Groot sale. The Met's own valuation on these was $190,000, but chances are that Marlborough can sell them for considerably more...