"Making the Planet a Better Place"

Journal article

By: Diane Pilgrim

Date: 1997

Source: Pilgrim, Diane. "Making the Planet a Better Place." ARTnews, October 1997, 192.

About the Author: Diane H. Pilgrim (1942–) received her education at Pennsylvania State University and New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. She held research positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and then served as curator of decorative arts at the Brooklyn Museum. In 1988, Pilgrim was appointed as director of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Pilgrim writes frequently for various art journals and also has contributed to several books on design.

Introduction

Diane Pilgrim became interested in art history while she was a student at Penn State. She entered the masters' degree program at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, where she wrote her thesis on John...

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