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Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art

by Thomas Hoving

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ISBN13: 9780671880750
ISBN10: 0671880756
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A former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals his bold and brash life at its pinnacle: the clandestine deals which secured blockbuster exhibitions for the museum and made him a legend. Photos.

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Elaine, April 6, 2007 (view all comments by Elaine)
Hoving was director of the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art for 10 years. I had read book his "King of the Confessors" and loved it. His writing is so elegant. When I came across this book I had high expectations and wasn't disappointed. While the earlier book described a sort of art mystery, this book reads like a tell-all novel, written by the man in the middle of it all. Hoving is obviously a man with a well-honed sense of ego, and someone with all the right connections. He describes the fundamental ways in which he changed the Met to the vibrant museum it is (always taking credit for the changes and the much-needed fund-raising). It is a very interesting peek behind the curtain of a world-famous institution that to outsiders looks like a well-oiled machine that just hums along.
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ISBN:
9780671880750
Subtitle:
Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author:
Hoving, Thomas
Publisher:
Touchstone Books
Subject:
Non-Classifiable
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
Management
Subject:
Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum
Subject:
Metropolitan museum of art (new york, n.y.)
Subject:
Art museum directors
Subject:
Management - General
Subject:
General Biography
Copyright:
Edition Description:
B102
Publication Date:
February 1994
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
448
Dimensions:
912x596x119 153

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