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Thomas Hoving

About the Author

Thomas Hoving, a former director of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, is the man who invented the blockbuster exhibition and changed forever the sleepy world of the art museum. He has written two novels and several works of nonfiction, including the national best-seller Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was editor-in-chief of Connoisseur magazine and is now president of Hoving Associates Inc., an international museum and cultural affairs consulting firm.

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