July 2008
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Thoughts About Guided Tours
It is actually fascinating to watch visitors in exhibitions. A museum experience can differ greatly depending…
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Bye, Claude
Most Chinese of my generation have an inexplicable profound love of Monet and his impressionism fellows.…
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Class notes from “Rethinking Period Rooms”, a series of lectures at BMA — 1. The Birth
Ironically, the American Period Rooms now displayed and treasured in the major art museums were born…
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Where you live and what you collect
Recently there are more times than I can realize that I speak of Brooklyn, the borough…
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Multi-tasking Rooms
Most of the early 18th-century period rooms in the Brooklyn Museum of Art, to my surprise,…
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The Amercian in a Barbizon Mood
In reading the book “American Art In the Barbizon Mood,” I am surprised to find out…
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Autumn Scenes by John Francis Murphy
I have known the name of the painter John Francis Murphy since I began to study…
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American Collectors of French Furniture
The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the…