EXHIBITIONS BY YEAR
MoMA Staff
Artists
New York Times Review of the exhibition
PUBLISHED
3 April 1981
The talk of Houston
By Grace GLUECK
THE recent appointment of Barbara Rose, the art historian and critic, as curator of exhibitions and collections at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, has set off a little controversy in that upand-coming culture center. It's not only that Miss Rose will retain her job in New York as art editor of Vogue, touching down in Houston for one week every month. It's also that last week, a story in The Houston Post by Mimi Crossley, art critic for the paper, reported that a month before Miss Rose's hiring, the museum acquired five paintings from her husband, the songwriter Jerry Leiber, for an unconfirmed purchase price of $80,000.
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