ArtsTalk

By Compiled by MARY ANN MARGER

© St. Petersburg Times, published October 22, 2000

Collector shares knowledge

Joseph Veach Noble, the man behind the Tampa Museum of Art's outstanding collection of Greek and Roman antiquities bearing his name, comes to the museum today to lecture about it.

Noble's credentials include stints as former vice director of administration for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, former president of the American Museum Association, chairman emeritus of the board of Brookgreen Gardens of American Sculpture and director emeritus of the Museum of the City of New York.

The collection, considered one of the 15 most important of its kind in the nation and the most important in the Southeast, was purchased by the museum in 1986 and is on permanent display. It has since been augmented by other significant acquisitions.

Noble speaks at 2 p.m. in the museum's lecture room. A reception follows. The event is free with museum admission.

Beyond the bay

"Van Gogh: Face to Face," Philadelphia Museum of Art, today through Jan. 14. Major exhibition of Van Gogh's portraits that was exhibited in Boston earlier this year. (215) 763-8100, http://www.philamuseum.org

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