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How Robert Moses Transformed The Metropolitan Museum

VISUAL Posted: December 27, 2019 9:28 am

Wags had taken to calling the Met the Necropolitan and said it suffered from hardening of the galleries. The New Yorker sniped that the acting director still wrote with a quill pen and considered theories about the democracy of art to be “so much parlor Socialism.” Moses disdained the old families who’d run the place since its founding. – The Daily Beast

VISUAL Published: 12.27.19

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