In the museum world, some secrets are out even before they can be classified as secret, others lie quietly covered up for years. Last week New York's Metropolitan Museum gave a rousing demonstration of both truisms and, in the process, announced it was both richer by a handsome new acquisition and poorer by declaring one of its prized Greek treasures to be a fake.
Almost as soon as Monet's The Terrace at Ste. Adresse was knocked down to a London dealer for $1,411,200, thus setting an auction record for an impressionist painting (TIME, Dec. 8), the rumor spread that...
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