Word: connoisseurship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thieves' improbable connoisseurship set off speculation that the heist was a botched assignment ordered up by a wealthy collector. But no leads panned out. Then, in August, Herald reporter Tom Mashberg claimed he had been escorted to a dark warehouse and shown by flashlight Rembrandt's signature on Storm on the Sea of Galilee. The assignation was brokered by Youngworth, who then told ABC's Nightline he could deliver the stolen works in exchange for the museum's $5 million reward and the release of his pal Myles J. Connor Jr., a thief who was in prison for selling cocaine...
...harp and keyboards), whose dour banker's visage is uncapped onstage to reveal a wily mischiefmaker. "We keep the humor going," says Moloney. "I grew up in an atmosphere where music was about happiness and song." But the group's approach to their traditional airs is one of unawed connoisseurship. They are not a bar band playing the classics; they are concert virtuosi who can go on a lark...
Only MOMA's resources -- its own collection, Elderfield's connoisseurship and the accumulated borrowing power that is the peaceable blackmail of the museum world -- could have produced this show. Its essential component, never seen in such depth outside Russia before, is the paintings bought from Matisse's studio 80 years ago by those two inspired and obsessed collectors, Ivan Morosov and Sergei Shchukin, now divided between the Hermitage in St. Petersburg and the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow...
...normally applied to commercial enterprises, Krens, 45, may be reinventing the way museums do business -- and in the process creating the art world's first multinational. He is the most outspoken and controversial of a growing number of museum directors who are fusing hard- edged business acumen with classic connoisseurship...
...which looks at works of art mainly in their relation to ideology, social events and the culture at large, without drawing strict hierarchical distinctions between "high" and "low" art. The advantage of this stance is . that it enables you to create more compelling narratives about art than more traditional connoisseurship could. You can reach out and argue about what things say in concert -- novels, propaganda, music, film, advertising, magazines, TV, as well as painting, sculpture and architecture. The disadvantage is that it tends to ignore the exceptions -- outstanding works of art that don't necessarily fit the period they belong...