In Capital Culture, historian Neil Harris looks at a rich east-coast scion who remade the museum experience.
by Hannah Gold
In a 1985 review of a National Gallery of Art exhibit on ancestral British country houses, the critic Robert Hughes wrote, "The agenda of the show is plain, and who could object to it? It is a fund raiser, aimed at drumming up more American support for that collectively unique, financially insecure, historically indispensable phenomenon, the Stately Home."…[ Read more ]