Stuart Silver, Designer of Museum Blockbusters, Dies at 84
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, who as the inventive design director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 1960s and ’70s turn...
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