Thomas Hoving

In late January, 500 federal agents swooped down on art collections in southern California with warrants. The alleged crimes? The possession of smuggled art objects, looted mostly from Asian and Native American sites. Thomas Hoving, a former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (and a keen ...

Thomas Hoving was the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for 10 years. An international authority on art fraud, he’s the author of False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes. He’s written over a dozen art history books on everything ...

Kurt discusses fraud novelists with Simon Dumenco and forged paintings with Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum. Hoving was the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for 10 years. An international authority on art fraud, he's the author ...

Scandals are rocking America’s biggest art museums right now. It seems that the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts may own a lot of precious items with dubious backgrounds — vases and statues looted from archeological sites and smuggled ...

Thomas Hoving was the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for 10 years. An international authority on art fraud, he's the author of False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes. He's written over a dozen art history books on everything from King Tut to his ...

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Thomas Hoving talks about the Guggenheim at the Met and more.

In this press conference Mayor John V. Lindsay announces the redesign of three parks in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, funded by the Astor Foundation. The design by Paul Friedberg for playground 89, adjoined to Public School 166 (PS166) in the upper west side of Manhattan is described by Mayor Lindsay ...

Moderator Ted O. Thackrey. His guests are the Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving, Chair of the Community Council 8, Mrs. Leonard Bernheim, Chair of the Community Council's Develop...