Volume 40, Number 5 · March 4, 1993
Masterpiece Theater
By Robert Hughes
Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art
by Thomas Hoving
Simon and Schuster, 447 pp., $25.00
No other museum director in American history has had as much written about him as Thomas P.F. Hoving, who ran the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for ten years (1967–1977). The striking thing is how much of it he has written himself. Memoirs by American museum men are fairly thin on the ground, and when they appear—like Self-Portrait with Donors, by John Walker, a former director of the National Gallery in Washington—they tend to be mild, discreet, and ruminative.
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