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 ...

On the late Thomas Hoving (1931–2009). Yet as director of the Met, he was—or at least he seemed at the time to be—a cultural colossus. His sense of showmanship (a word that is inevitable in ...

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 ...

In the days when Thomas Hoving was director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from 1967 to 1977, his supporters often charged that his critics were much too hard on him. Were his de-accessioning ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correction Appended: Dec. 14, 2009 Thomas Hoving held many jobs, but in all of them he played the same role: tireless showman. Over the years, Hoving was a city parks commissioner, a magazine editor, ...

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Services had not been determined as of press time for Thomas Hoving, the ebullient and controversial director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1967 to 1977, who died Thursday at age 78 from ...

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, ...