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Thomas Hoving

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Thomas Hoving


Born
in New York
January 15, 1931

Died
December 10, 2009

Genre
Art


Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving was an American museum executive and consultant, best known for serving as the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

His books primarily focus on art-related subjects, including art forgeries, Grant Wood, Andrew Wyeth, Tutankhamen, and the 12th-century walrus ivory crucifix known as the Bury St. Edmunds Cross. His memoir, Making the Mummies Dance, details his years at the Met.

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Making the Mummies Dance: I...
3.84 avg rating — 1,069 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions
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Tutankhamun: The Untold Story
4.03 avg rating — 329 ratings — published 1978 — 3 editions
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King of the Confessors
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False Impressions: The Hunt...
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Two Worlds of Andrew Wyeth:...
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Greatest Works of Art of We...
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Masterpiece
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“I have heard of you- a kind of revolutionary. Hard to be a revolutionary in the deadly museum business.”
― Thomas Hoving, Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art
tags: art, art-history, hoving, malraux, museum, the-met, thomas-hoving
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