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2010:

  1. An appreciation of people we lost in 2009
    An appreciation of people we lost in 2009

    with John Hope Franklin, Walter Cronkite, Thomas Hoving and more on Jan 1, 2010

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    60 min
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1999:

  1. A conversation about an art forgery
    A conversation about an art forgery

    with Thomas Hoving and Peter Landesman on Aug 18, 1999

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    21 min
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1998:

  1. A conversation with art director and author Thomas Hoving
    A conversation with art director and author Thomas Hoving

    with Thomas Hoving on Feb 5, 1998

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    11 min
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1996:

  1. An interview with Thomas Hoving
    An interview with Thomas Hoving

    with Thomas Hoving on May 16, 1996

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    13 min
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Thomas P.F. Hoving is an American museum executive and consultant and the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He went to work for the Met in 1959, serving on the staff of the medieval department at The Cloisters until 1965, when he became curator of the department. He left the Met in 1966 to become New York Mayor John V. Lindsay’s parks commissioner, but in 1967 returned to the Met as director in 1966. He assumed the directorship on March 17, 1967 and presided over a massive expansion and renovation of the museum, successfully adding many important collections to its holdings.

He left the Met in 1977 to start an independent consulting firm for museums, Hoving Associates. From 1978 to 1984 he was an arts correspondent for the ABC newsmagazine 20/20. He edited “Connoisseur Magazine” from 1981 to 1991; along with his memoirs of his time at the Met, he is also the author of books on a number of art-related subjects. Hoving also wrote the text for the “Art For Dummies” book.

Source-Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hoving