Art
November, 1979
The blockbuster mentality seems to have grabbed museum directors as firmly as it has the heads of motion-picture studios, and not without good reason. Aside from crowd-control nightmares and the occasional wad of chewing gum plastered to the rump of a Rodin, such archaeological extravaganzas as Treasures of Tutankhamen and Pompeii, A.D. 79 have been a tremendous boon, generating tens of thousands of new museum memberships and walloping gift-shop revenues. Still, the museum moguls have the same p...
