During the 1960s and '70s, Thomas Hoving spent a decade as the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hoving has been credited with transforming the museum from a somber monolith into a friendly ...

Prodded by law enforcement, and pushed by foreign governments, American museums are increasingly returning artifacts to countries of origin, but critics wonder at what cost. By Graham Bowley A top ...

Thomas Hoving, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City during the 1960s and '70s, was known for bringing blockbuster exhibits to the Met. The biggest was the King Tut exhibition, ...

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NEW YORKNEW YORK — Former Metropolitan Art Museum director Thomas Hoving has died at his home in New York City. Nancy Hoving says her husband died Thursday of cancer. He was 78. He was director of the ...

Hoving first worked at the Met in 1959, and though he left for a brief stint as parks commissioner, he returned to the museum to become its director in 1967. During his 10 years there, he acquired ...

If Carter Brown was once considered the boy wonder of the art museum world, then certainly Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan, was its enfant terrible. Terrible! The difference is that ...

Thomas Hoving is right back where he loves being — in the limelight. It’s been more than 25 years since he assumed the most important post of his life, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in ...

Hoving, right, outside the Met in 1968. Thomas Hoving, who died yesterday in Manhattan at 78, ran the Metropolitan Museum of Art for just ten years. When he took over in 1967, the Great Hall was a ...

Thomas Hoving's charismatic but controversial leadership of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is summed up in his autobiography Making the Mummies Dance. Dr. Hoving died yesterday of lung cancer ...

Thomas Hoving, the showman and treasure hunter whose tenure as director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1967 to 1977 fundamentally transformed the institution and helped usher in the era of the ...