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The motivations of many western museums and collectors to acquire antiquities have also been less than savoury: to bolster their reputations as the guardians and custodians of art and civilisation

Stuart Silver, Designer of Museum Blockbusters, Dies at 84 He helped reinvigorate the Metropolitan and made its exhibitions into crowd-pleasing spectacles, providing a model for other fine-art museums across the country. Stuart Silver in 1983 as he prepared for “The Art of the Popes,” a sprawling exhibition of Vatican art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He designed a number of hugely popular shows there. Credit...Ángel Franco/The New York Times June 9, 2021, 3:28 p.m. ET Stuart Silver,...