The Metropolitan Museum of Art Here's hoping that the Metropolitan Museum's new director, Tom Campbell, will hit the ground running when he assumes his prestigious post one month from today. He's been at the institution for 13 years, knows the players, and will have had the benefit of four months of intensive on-site training. There's no reason for him to be tentative or … [Read more...] about Ten Suggestions for Tom Campbell, Incoming Director at the Met
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Name That Met Director: The Game Show’s Final Round
Max Hollein: The frontrunner? Pop Quiz for Met Museumologists: Which of these four museum professionals is not like the others? A) Gary Tinterow, the Metropolitan Museum's curator in charge of 19th-century, modern and contemporary art B) Ian Wardropper, the Met's chairman of European sculpture and decorative arts C) Thomas Campbell, a curator specializing in … [Read more...] about Name That Met Director: The Game Show’s Final Round
Tarrying with Larry: Gagosian Gets the Full “New Yorker” Treatment (minus the careful fact-checking)
In what surely must be a record length for a magazine profile of an art dealer, The New Yorker's 17,000-word How Larry Gagosian Reshaped the Art World---more evocatively (and provocatively) titled, "Money on the Wall" in the July 31 print edition---focuses with hardcore voyeurism on the sometimes unsavory but usually successful tactics of a masterful masterpiece-merchant. … [Read more...] about Tarrying with Larry: Gagosian Gets the Full “New Yorker” Treatment (minus the careful fact-checking)
The Year in CultureGrrl, 2022 Edition: Cowering, Glowering and Flowering
Call me "the Covid Coward." For someone whose recent writings have focused chiefly on museums---their missions, their practices, their holdings and the people who manage them and visit them---I've spent regrettably little time inside their galleries again this year (like last year), trying (successfully, so far) not to become another casualty of Tridemic Triage, which has … [Read more...] about The Year in CultureGrrl, 2022 Edition: Cowering, Glowering and Flowering
Kaywin’s Win: Feldman to Direct the National Gallery UPDATED
When museum trustees set out to hire a new director, they tend to seek someone very different from the current one, a prominent art museum director once told me. They want change. That certainly seems to be the case with the National Gallery of Art's (NGA's) choice of Kaywin Feldman, director since 2008 of the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA), to lead the most prominent … [Read more...] about Kaywin’s Win: Feldman to Direct the National Gallery UPDATED