- Robert Storr discusses the shifting balance of museum collections
historically 'certified' classics to art whose status and significance
remains in active contentionWith vivid memories of his first visit to
the Scottish National Gallery in the 1970s and his initial encounter
with Hugo van der Goes' The Trinity Altarpiece, Rembrandt's A Woman in
Bed, Velazquez's An Old Woman Cooking Eggs and Degas' Diego Martelli,
Robert Storr discusses the shifting balance of museum collections from
historically 'certified' classics to art whose status and significance
remains in active contention and from singular 'treasures' to ensembles
that speak to the larger scope of an artist's endeavor.