Friday, August 12, 2005

Hey, Silicon Valley--you can't take it with you | Perspectives | CNET News.com

Hey, Silicon Valley--you can't take it with you | Perspectives | CNET News.com: "nother scorching summer. But not even the dog days can wilt the movable feast that is Manhattan's art scene.

So it was that during a round of museum-hopping on a recent trip to New York, my attention turned to the list of benefactors who had helped acquire and house many of these treasures over the years.

The donor roll call reads like something out of a musty edition of Who's Who in America. Names like Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Frick and Rockefeller recall another time and another New York. These were the folks who helped create what later became this nation's cultural capital."

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