Books by Thomas Hoving and Complete Book Reviews

Thomas Hoving, Author Simon & Schuster $24.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-73854-9
As director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1967 to 1977, brash, energetic Hoving transformed a stodgy, elitist institution into a bottom-line-oriented business enterprise, a modernized, expansive museum that actively engages the...
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Thomas Hoving, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (301p) ISBN 978-0-671-68248-4
Less a novel than a tedious room-by-room guided tour through a Roman palace by a gang of unsavory art lovers, Hoving's second novel (after Masterpiece) is pedantically instructive rather than exciting. The former director of the Metropolitan Museum...
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Thomas Hoving, Author Simon & Schuster $25.5 (366p) ISBN 978-0-684-81134-5
Take care if you're planning to buy a Renoir landscape or a Manet--there are art fakers who can convincingly simulate the former in two hours, the latter in three, according to Hoving in this wry guide to the world of art forgeries. Hoving (Making...
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