Metropolitan Museum of Art

Special Guest: Thomas Hoving

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Thomas Hoving was the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for 10 years. An international authority on art fraud, he’s the author of False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-Time Art Fakes. He’s written over a dozen art history books on everything from King Tut to his latest, American Gothic: The Biography […]

Remembering Tom Hoving

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Good Manners

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Art heist

August 14, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Faith talks to Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, about the spate of million-dollar art heists that took place in Zurich recently.

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