Article: The Art of the Deal: Israel Museum's Diplomatic Director

Robin Cembalest
Forward
12-20-1996
The Art of the Deal: Israel Museum's Diplomatic Director.

By ROBIN CEMBALEST

When the Museum of Modern Art was organizing its Matisse retrospective, James Snyder, the deputy director, developed a strategy for dealing with recalcitrant lenders: the sudden, unannounced visit. Given that the time was the late 1980s and many Matisse masterpieces were in places like Moscow and St. Petersburg, this meant that Mr. Snyder logged many an air mile shuttling between New York and Soviet cities. MoMA's various Picasso blockbusters took him to yet other corners of the globe; then there were the negotiations with Japanese sponsors of a show of highlights from MoMa's ...

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