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Collector's Cabinet. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art bids farewell to its director, who has worked at the museum for 45 years, the last 30 as its head, with the exhibit The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions - a hodgepodge of 300 works of art, from a wooden Egyptian statue to Jasper John's White Flag, collected under de Montebello. Through Feb. 1, 2009. 1000 Fifth Avenue, at 82nd Street, New York City...
Late in 2005, the Met's current director, Philippe de Montebello, a much more saturnine character, duly began negotiations for the return of the krater and 20 other pieces from the Met's great collections. One week after I last saw it, the krater was in Rome, along with 68 other objects recovered from the Met, the Getty, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and other places, all on display as part of "Nostoi: Recovered Masterpieces"--nostoi is Greek for "homecomings"--a victory-lap exhibition of repatriated treasures...
...demands to return objects that entered their collections many years before the adoption of laws that bar their export. "We've acknowledged that some claims are reasonable," says Michael Brand, director of the Getty Museum. "But if you start claiming everything, it becomes impossible." The Met's De Montebello likes to ask whether Italy will return the bronze horses of San Marco, which arrived in Venice as war booty from Constantinople in 1204. "And at what point is Turkey going to return the Alexander Sarcophagus to Lebanon?" he wonders. "In the 19th century, it was brought from there when Lebanon...
...people visited primarily to get a culture fix. This helps to explain why the city's biggest tourist attraction is the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which ushered in 4.6 million visitors in the year ended June 30, 2007. And also why, when the museum's longtime director, Philippe de Montebello, announced his retirement earlier this month, the New York Times treated it like the abdication of a king...
DIED. Florence Tullis, 70, former go-go dancer and biker mother of the severely disfigured Rocky Dennis, whose life was dramatized in the award-winning 1985 film Mask; of an infection following a motorcycle accident; in Montebello, Calif. As portrayed by Cher, Tullis dismissed predictions that Rocky--whose skull deformity grossly enlarged his face--would not live past age 7 and fought teachers who discouraged him from attending public school. Rocky died at 16, nine years before Tullis lost her elder son, Joshua, to AIDS. "You don't understand," she said to people who pitied her. "My kids lived every...