Astoria is a history buff's playground, with all
kinds of great museums and historical landmarks, including shipwreck remains.
Only works on paper could take New Yorkers to late Renaissance Florence, the age of Rembrandt, and a double dose of Michelangelo — the last as
part of great museum collections that even European travelers might never see.
In the U.S., one
thinks of great museums like Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Barnes Foundation in Pennsylvania, New York's Frick Collection, or the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Robert Lehman Collection.
Among the outstanding American painters of the early and mid-20th Century enriching the
halls of great museums, Jacob Lawrence's have always stood out.
«Because she's so low - key and doesn't blow her own horn, I think that in 20 years, when she's no longer a director, people are going to look back and say she was one
of the great museum directors of her generation, I really do,» Mr. Weinberg said.
Jeffrey Deitch, art dealer and former director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles argued, «Museums are giving these galleries the best platform in the art world for free, where they can sell work to their clients on the
walls of the greatest museums.
In 1980, the Kimbell Art Museum in Ft. Worth tagged Pillsbury to help build a world class collection and, in short order, he turned it into one
of the great museums in the nation, expanding its small collection into one of true distinction.
The University is located in the Greater New York City metropolitan area, on the shores of Long Island Sound, with easy access to
some of the greatest museums, libraries and cultural venues in the country.
He's been widely credited with transforming the museum's fortunes since taking up the position in 2002: as Tiffany Jenkins put it on the day of the announcement; «He deserves to be remembered as one
of the greatest museum directors in history.»
The great painting I believe that I just saw, that could be in the wall
of any great museum, is by Larry Poons.