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Only in retrospect was the 17th century in Holland seen as the age of Rembrandt. At the time, it was the glittering solidity of a moneyed middle class, the robust freedom of a people unburdened by spendthrift - and the plain cockiness of the most successful seafaring nation in Europe that struck the eye. These are characteristics that Frans Hals pictured with precision...
...only at the Art Institute of Chicago before being disassembled and sent back to the lenders. Among other major exhibitions slated to bypass New York is Chicago's "Treasures from Poland," on loan from the Polish government, which will go only to Philadelphia and Ottawa. "The Age of Rembrandt," which includes paintings from major Netherlands museums that may never again be allowed abroad, will be seen only in San Francisco, Toledo and Boston. Equally rare is Cleveland's "Treasures from Medieval Art," which includes a host of objects never seen outside France before...
Warhol's art-work does not present itself as a challenge to the eclat of Da Vinci and Rembrandt. Rather than attempting to sweep the viewer into the inventive world of the artist, Warhol's painting is a creative attempt to bring a sense of color and design back into daily life
With that kind of money, the museum often second-bids the Met, as in the case of Rembrandt's $2.3 million Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer in 1961, frequently top-bids it. Equally important, hard cash often buys the right to a first look. Over the years, Cleveland has made remarkably astute use of its money, sometimes with the help of a little histrionics. The museum's second director, the renowned William M. Milliken, was given to weeping openly at meetings of his acquisition committees...
...curator of Oriental art and took over the reins from Milliken in 1958, uses subtler but equally effective tactics. When a Velásquez portrayal of a court jester turned up for auction in London last year, gossips cast doubt on its authenticity, reserving their admiration for Rembrandt's Titus. Lee arranged to have the Velasquez secretly Xrayed, jetted to Madrid to compare it with other works by the Spanish master. When the hammer went down, Titus sold for $2.2 million; Lee walked away with a rare early Velásquez for a modest...