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...current display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art each piece is enhanced by its isolation. Hence, for most viewers, the show becomes a unique opportunity to enjoy and absorb the beauty of each object and painting. Many of these people will one day come to the Vatican. Then will they understand the context they missed. More important, they will want to see more art. There is no doubt that for them the risk is amply justified...
Several major museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, already organize their administrators similarly to the Fogg. The Met employs both a director--who oversees curatorial matters at the museum--and a president, who supervises its finances. The director and the president operate independently, says Robert Goldsmith, the museum's assistant to the president...
...sampling of 237 paintings, sculptures and other objects from the Vatican will open to the public at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art on Feb. 26. Previews have been running for weeks already. Later, "The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art" will travel to Chicago and San Francisco. It is the most expensive art exhibition ever put on in America. It cost $8 million to prepare, ship, insure and mount, and involved the largest single grant ever laid out by a corporate sponsor: $3 million from Philip Morris, which is to museums what Mobil and Exxon...
...grand sweep into Los Angeles followed similarly ballyhooed arrivals into Portland, Ore., Denver, Minneapolis and five other regional markets. By April, USA Today will have entered five additional metropolitan areas, including Chicago, Miami and New York. Though Gannett officials are closely guarding the circulation results in individual markets, they claim to have a total of more than 400,000 street-sold copies a day. That would make the paper, whose first issue appeared in Washington on Sept. 15, at least the nation's 18th largest...
Despite his background of Groton, Harvard and Wall Street, Bliss, 69, almost grew up in the opera house. His father, Cornelius Newton Bliss, was the president of a textile firm. He owned a box in the grand tier, the so-called Diamond Horseshoe, of the old Metropolitan Opera House, and he was chairman of the board from 1938 to 1946. Anthony attended his first performance when he was six, hearing Enrico Caruso in I Pagliacci, and when his father died in 1949, he was automatically offered a seat on the governing board. "I was aware of the kind of problems...