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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Thomas Hoving, whose charismatic but controversial leadership of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is summed up in his autobiography, “Making the Mummies Dance,” has died. He ...

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, whose charismatic but controversial leadership of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is summed up in his autobiography, "Making the Mummies Dance," died Thursday. He was 78. Hoving ...

BEAVER CREEK – The Vail Symposium will host Thomas Hoving, former directer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Monday at the Beaver Creek Club.In 1967, at the age of 36, Hoving became the youngest ...

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, a controversial fixture of the art world who turned New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art into a hot spot during his decade as its director, helping to pioneer the blockbuster ...

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 ...

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, ...