Egypt
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- Book Review: Tutankhamun - The Untold Story
Egyptians (Tim Reid) Tutankhamun - The Untold Story Thomas Hoving Simon and Schuster 1978 ISBN 0-671-24305-5 The late Thomas Hoving is a former director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York with this book being his 1978 bestseller. Mr. Hoving...
- Revenue From Tutankhamun In The 1970s
ArtNet (Thomas Hoving) Thomas Hoving is author of Master Pieces: The Curator’s Game (2005) and is former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The same stories circulate each time the Golden Age exhibition moves to a new venue, but I thought it...
- Blockbuster Exhibitions Road-tested
Design Week Most museums have trouble coping with the crowds generated by blockbuster exhibitions. John Stones road tests three current shows and concludes that the signage could be much improved Picture the scene: you're in a crowd, being jostled...
- National Gallery Reject Blockbuster Format
Guardian Unlimited (Andrew Dickson) The word blockbuster comes from the second world war: a massive bomb designed to destroy entire swaths of city at a time. In the 50s it started to be used about plays; in the 70s, the era of Star Wars, people began...
- The Rise Of Blockbuster Art Shows
BBC News When the Tutankhamun exhibition opens at London's O2 arena on 15 November, it will face much more competition than it did the last time it came to the UK in 1972. Since then, the phenomenon of blockbuster art show has exploded. "Museums...
Egypt
In defense of the art museum `blockbuster'
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In response to criticism from, amongst others, Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight, Thomas Hoving launches a defense of exhbitions like the Tutankhamun blockbuster currently touring the U.S.. Hoving is the former director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, who says that he has been called the inventor of the art Block-Buster, but also describes himself as an "art elitist" who hates "the crowds that come with blockbuster exhibitions, the inflated admission prices and those things you stick in your ear for the platitudinous canned tour". But he still sees the value in bringing the rare and the beautiful to home audiences. A spirited and entertaining article - see the above URL for more.
- Book Review: Tutankhamun - The Untold Story
Egyptians (Tim Reid) Tutankhamun - The Untold Story Thomas Hoving Simon and Schuster 1978 ISBN 0-671-24305-5 The late Thomas Hoving is a former director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York with this book being his 1978 bestseller. Mr. Hoving...
- Revenue From Tutankhamun In The 1970s
ArtNet (Thomas Hoving) Thomas Hoving is author of Master Pieces: The Curator’s Game (2005) and is former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The same stories circulate each time the Golden Age exhibition moves to a new venue, but I thought it...
- Blockbuster Exhibitions Road-tested
Design Week Most museums have trouble coping with the crowds generated by blockbuster exhibitions. John Stones road tests three current shows and concludes that the signage could be much improved Picture the scene: you're in a crowd, being jostled...
- National Gallery Reject Blockbuster Format
Guardian Unlimited (Andrew Dickson) The word blockbuster comes from the second world war: a massive bomb designed to destroy entire swaths of city at a time. In the 50s it started to be used about plays; in the 70s, the era of Star Wars, people began...
- The Rise Of Blockbuster Art Shows
BBC News When the Tutankhamun exhibition opens at London's O2 arena on 15 November, it will face much more competition than it did the last time it came to the UK in 1972. Since then, the phenomenon of blockbuster art show has exploded. "Museums...