Word: tut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Museums have learned their part in this vicarious regilding. They supply a sense of history as spectacle. This seems to work particularly well with English history. Relatively few Americans can imagine themselves as King Tut, Rudolf II of Prague or Lorenzo de' Medici, but there is no shortage of people who feel that with the right decorator, their homes might become facsimiles of English landed estates, complete with an old red setter molting on a new reproduction William Kent sofa...
...raise money for the Peabody's budget by charging Perot a yet unspecified sum for use of the artifacts in the same way that art museums paid to exhibit the "King Tut" collection five years...
While one Peabody official described Perot as "the best thing to happen to anthropology since the discovery of King Tut's tomb," some New York residents now seem to regard him as a corporate raider...
...Morgan Library's own drawings), this is not the kind of exhibition to bring hoarsely clamoring crowds to the gates of Ticketron. Nor can it, by itself, restore to us the sense of the masterpiece (and of the skills that underlie its production) that has been imperiled by post-Tut museum hype. But of those 75 loans at the Morgan, perhaps 40 really are masterpieces in their genre, and the rest are of unassailably high quality. It is rare to see such a concentrated show...
...work down. The valleys of American painting are so marshy that it is better to lift one's eyes to the peaks. Last fall an exhibition that does just this opened at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where it was besieged by Tut-size crowds; it can now be seen at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, and will go to Paris in March. "A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting 1760-1910" may be the best survey show of its kind ever held. Certainly it will be the first time that this area of American...