Thomas Hoving
Thomas Hoving
Thomas Pearsall Field Hovingwas an American museum executive and consultant and the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth15 January 1931
CountryUnited States of America
art attract became boys director either kick museum people pick run
When I became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was stodgy, gray, run by elitists. I said, 'Hey, let's kick the thing around.' I wanted to attract young people to the museum. I said, 'Make it hospitable. I want them to come. I want them to make dates, pick up girls, pick up boys - either way; I don't care.'
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My heavily-cleverly disguised low self-regard manifested itself in my constant showing off, my addiction for publicity, and my intolerable 'me-me-me' attitudes and actions. But it's done, isn't it? And no one can really change, can they? And, hey, it has been a lot of fun being the life-long irresponsible, snarky, nasty art scamp.
address anyone art longer peculiar runners
My address book of dealers and private collectors, smugglers and fixers, agents, runners and the peculiar assortment of art hangers-on was longer than anyone else's in the field.
change
The 'Artful Tommy' will never change - and perhaps shouldn't.
art parks works
Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.
art great hard matter tried work
No matter how hard I tried to popularize, I never cheapened a great work of art.
art great shown
Great art should be shown with great excitement.
art fever greed work
If you don't work yourself up into a fever of greed and covetousness in an art museum, you're just not doing the job.
five four park
Utopia would mean a park - some large, some small - every four or five blocks.