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Article: New kid on the block: America's art galleries. (Carter Brown, National Gallery of Art)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 9, 1992
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THE world is closing in on the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Born of the union of vast wealth and a philanthropic spirit, nurtured by Congress and shephered along for the past 22 years by its director, Carter Brown, the gallery has been largely free from the hard realities that affect every other museum like it in the country.
Directors of the gallery (Mr Brown is only the third) have kept the art coming in by appealing to national pride. It all worked marvellously well, particularly under Mr Brown, who arranged for a steady stream of acquisitions and special exhibitions that made the gallery the envy of other institutions. As much through the force ...