Citizen Koch

Joel heads to the MFA to for a press conference and exhibit tour by Bill Koch, the latest rich guy to lend the museum some of his favorite expensive things:

... I was reminded of the scene at the end of "Citizen Kane" where the great man's vast and jumbled lifetime of acquisitions is being packed up after his death.

But after hearing Koch talk about nearly each and every one of the items on display - leading our tour himself, he was still working his way through the western room when I left to catch a train - it's clear that Koch really does love this stuff, he's not piling it up just to satisfy his ego. And if your Rosebud is a ravishing Modigliani nude, well, that's maybe not so bad. ...