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Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum by Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino Publisher Comments In recent years, several of America’s leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. The monetary value is estimated at over half a billion dollars. Why would they be moved... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover 
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Master Pieces: The Curator's Game by Thomas Hoving Publisher Comments Hoving introduces readers to the challenge of identifying art and to the rewards of familiarity with the great works. A section of paintings and essays introduces a range of artists, themes, techniques, and styles, while progressively demanding "clues... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson Publisher Comments Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock’s drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million? Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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Art Theft and the Case of the Stolen Turners by Sandy Nairne Publisher Comments In 1994 two important paintings by J.M.W. Turner—then valued at twenty-four million pounds—were stolen from a German public gallery while on loan from Tate Britain. In this vivid, personal account, Sandy Nairne who was then Director of... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture by Ivan Karp Publisher Comments Contributors to this volume examine and illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation projects and the communities they represent and serve. Essays include the role of museums in civil society, the... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rogues' Gallery: the Secret Story of the Lust, Lies, Greed, and Betrayals That Made the Metropolitan Museum of Art (09 Edition) by Michael Gross Publisher Comments “Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.” With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Danny Danziger Publisher Comments An oral portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is based on interviews with fifty-two people, from its security guards and cleaners to its philanthropist supporters and famous patrons, in a celebration of the role of people in how the Met is operated... (read more) Your price: $13.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft by Ulrich Boser Publisher Comments In recent years, several of Americas leading art museums have voluntarily given up their finest pieces of classical art to the governments of Italy and Greece. The monetary value is estimated at over half a billion dollars. Why would they be moved to... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Stealing the Mystic Lamb: The True Story of the World's Most Coveted Masterpiece by Noah Charney Publisher Comments Jan van Eycks Ghent Altarpiece is on any art historians list of the ten most important paintings ever made. Often referred to by the subject of its central panel, The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, it represents the fulcrum between the Middle Ages and the... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Who Owns Antiquity? by James Cuno Publisher Comments Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted museums, private collectors, and dealers against source countries, archaeologists... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $16.82 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Caring for Your Art (3RD 01 Edition) by Jill Snyder Publisher Comments Step by step, readers will learn how to store and handle art properly, photograph art, insure and secure art, set up proper environmental controls, mat and frame safely, and utilize manual and computer systems for record keeping. This third edition also... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece (P.S.) by Edward Dolnick Publisher Comments In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world's most famous paintings, Edvard Munch's Scream. It was a brazen crime committed while the whole world was watching... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Museum in Transition: A Philosophical Perspective by Hilde S Hein Publisher Comments During the past thirty years, museums of all kinds have tried to become more responsive to the interests of a diverse public. With exhibitions becoming people-centered, idea-oriented, and contextualized, the boundaries between museums and the “real&... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Growing Up Guggenheim: A Personal History of a Family Enterprise by Peter Lawson Johnston Synopsis In Growing Up Guggenheim, Peter Lawson-Johnston, a Guggenheim himself, and the board president who oversaw the transformation of the renowned museum from a local New York institution to a global art venture, shares a personal memoir that includes... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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What Makes a Great Exhibition? by Paula Marincola Publisher Comments Fourteen essays by leading curators and art historians address the most pressing issues surrounding exhibition making today.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World by Sharon Waxman Publisher Comments “Fast-paced and compelling . . . Waxman has an array of wondrous tales to tell . . . Considerable, admirable, and totally absorbing.”—The Boston Globe For the past two centuries, the West has plundered the treasures of the ancient world... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives by Susan Sleeper Smith Publisher Comments This interdisciplinary and international collection of essays illuminates the importance and effects of Indigenous perspectives for museums. The contributors challenge and complicate the traditionally close colonialist connections between museums and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.95 Used - Trade Paper
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America's Medicis: The Rockefellers and Their Astonishing Cultural Legacy by Suzanne Loebl Publisher Comments The first book to explore the immense cultural contributions of one of America's wealthiest and most influential families: the Rockefellers. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller sparked her family's passion for art, but it was her husband, John D. Rockefeller Jr... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Buell Center/Forum Project Publication #1: Studio and Cube: On the Relationship Between Where Art Is Made and Where Art Is Displayed by Brian Odoherty Publisher Comments When does an artist's creation become art, and where? Does it occur in the solitary confines of an artist's studio or does itrequire the context of an art gallery's white cube? What is the relationship between these two culturally charged spaces? How... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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A Cabinet of Curiosities: Inquiries Into Museums and Their Prospects by Stephen E Weil Publisher Comments Reflecting critically on the current condition of museums and their possible futures, Stephen E. Weil argues that cultural institutions need to free themselves from a fascination with technique and process to concentrate more intently on purpose. He... (read more) List Price $32.75 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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