A professor’s 30-year dream of assembling a complete set of “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji,” the pinnacle of the artist’s career, leads to an auction.
Especially on the coasts of the state, the wealthy are increasingly choosing to
start their own museums rather than house their collections in someone else’s.
Though the state’s east coast museums have long grabbed headlines, transplants from across the U.S., and their money, are also having an impact on its Gulf Coast.
At Yale, a colleague said, he showed “there was a way to compete hard and well
in financial markets, but to have our lives be about something that mattered
more.”
While you’ve been binge-watching Netflix and peering anxiously at your
sourdough, John Hatleberg has been working on replicas of the Hope Diamond and
its earlier incarnations for the Smithsonian.