"We were a convenient base for him to show treasures," Alice Hudson told me recently at the N.Y.P.L.
"Tutankhamen Treasure" (1961) included 34 objects, and the blockbuster show "Treasures of Tutankhamen" had 55 works and attracted more than 800,000 visitor in 1976-77 before traveling to Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Seattle and New York.
Held in conjunction with the show "Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting From the Morgan," the concert features Amir Vahab and his ensemble, who will introduce the crowd to Persian and Turkish music and song, including vocal works based on Sufi poetry.
The Royal Academy has strong historical links with the museum; in 1935 it was the first foreign gallery to show treasures from the Forbidden City, something that the Chinese had not forgotten.
Coincidentally, a larger Eastern Han bronze horse, 53 inches tall, with a free-standing groom, is in the show "Treasures From a Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art From Sichuan," which runs through June 16 at the Metropolitan.
"I've been amazed at the response," said Richard Zettler, a curator of the University of Pennsylvania show, "Treasures From the Royal Tombs of Ur," which has extended its run in Philadelphia and will go on the road again later this year.
In a sense, the yard-show treasure hunt ended here.
The Smithsonian in Washington, DC, has been asked to open an exhibition space on the 4.5 acre site showing treasures from its 19 museums and art galleries.
"I'll tell you what I've heard myself," continued Captain Smollett: "that you have a map of an island, that there's crosses on the map to show where treasure is, and that the island lies—" And then he named the latitude and longitude exactly.Finding treasure is rarely as romantic or swashbucklingly exciting as Robert Louis Stevenson would have it.
In the catalog for the excellent show "The Treasure of Ulysses Davis" at the American Folk Art Museum, he is quoted as saying: "I love to barber.
A woman in her 60s has unlocked the buttons of her white shirt to show a treasure chest full of heavy silver chains rattling over a turquoise and pink bikini top.
