The house became a place of pilgrimage in the decades after Poe's death, and on his visit in 1888, Hemstreet, a retired Civil War colonel and board member of the Brooklyn art museum, regarded the Raven Room, as it was called, "with profound sentiment".
"A curator should not be put in that position because a donor wants maximum value in exchange for the gift". It is also not clear how seriously the museum regards the allegation that Frel deceived the trustees in making purchases of artworks from dealers.
Includes letters written to various museums regarding collections and correspondence regarding fieldwork.
While visually messy, way too hip and a tad monotonous, the show is a gauntlet thrown down to other New York museums regarding contemporary art.
"All Holocaust-era works will be identified, and all provenance information in the museums regarding those works will be disclosed," said Ken Klothen, executive director of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States, which is expected to release details of the agreement in its final report next month.
The Times recounted comments left by a museum visitor regarding the "endless layers of mysteries" the image offers: "What is Norman Mailer's head doing on an innocent grandma's body, and are those crows or F-16s skimming the hills?" Lucy's granddaughter, a Boston-area nurse named Susan Lawlor, became a fan of MOBA after seeing the portrait in a newspaper.
But danger always lurks when a museum is regarded first and foremost as an instrument of social engineering.
Thus, "those regulations will be allowed to expire, allowing the prior regulations regarding museum collections to once again take effect".
When talks started in earnest a year ago, Italy had presented the museum with documentation regarding 52 antiquities that the Culture Ministry says were looted, but it later dropped 6 from that list.
