Civilization and its contents: Natalie Kampen on the new Greek and Roman galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From: Artforum International | Date: May 1, 2007| Author: Kampen, Natalie | Copyright information

FOLLOWING A FIVE-YEAR construction project (and a decade of planning before that), the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has opened its new Greek and Roman galleries with refashioned spaces and displays that will no doubt spark some debate, comprising as they do a complex balancing act of scholarly, aesthetic, and educational missions set within the larger framework of American museum economics and collecting. Indeed, one hopes that the reinstallation and renaming of the space...

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