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  • September 2008

    • Met Surprises With Choice of New Director

      New York Times  |  Sep 10, 08 9:34 AM CDT

      Met Surprises With Choice of New Director

      (Newser) - The Metropolitan Museum in New York has chosen Thomas P. Campbell, its curator of European tapestries, as its new director, reports the New York Times . Campbell succeeds Philippe de Montebello, who transformed the Met during his 31 years at the helm. The selection of Campbell, an insider who did not overtly campaign for the job, was one of the most closely guarded secrets in the art world. More »

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      New York  • art  • art museum  • Metropolitan Museum of Art  • Philippe de Montebello

  • July 2008

    • Wanted: Museum Director to Marry Art, Commerce

      Newsweek  |  Jul 15, 08 2:45 PM CDT

      Wanted: Museum Director to Marry Art, Commerce

      (Newser) - American museums are facing a shift in leadership, Newsweek reports, with 20 of the most prominent fine-art institutions—including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Guggenheim Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art—in search of directors. A "generational shift" has left institutions seeking specific qualifications: "Ideally a candidate has a PhD in art history but also an MBA," one expert says. More »

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      art  • art museum  • museum  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum  • Metropolitan Museum of Art  • management  • MBA

  • February 2008

    • Scandal-Master Courbet Dazzles

      Newsday  |  Feb 29, 08 2:55 PM CST

      Scandal-Master Courbet Dazzles

      (Newser) - Parlaying scandal into success may seem a terribly modern ploy, but Gustave Courbet, the subject of a new retrospective at New York's Metropolitan Museum, mastered the art 150 years ago. Courbet, the realist painter and father of modern art, painted both gorgeous, subtle scenes and uglier, intentionally awkward tableaux. They stand side by side in this "deeply engaging and utterly fascinating retrospective," Ariella Budick writes in Newsday . More »

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      art  • painting  • Metropolitan Museum of Art  • modern art  • Gustave Courbet

    • For Jasper Johns, Gray Matters

      Bloomberg  |  Feb 8, 08 1:56 PM CST

      For Jasper Johns, Gray Matters

      (Newser) - Visitors to the major Jasper Johns exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York might find the art a bit colorless. But that's precisely the point: The renowned American artist has filled the galleries with 119 paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures executed in shades of gray. The nearly monochromatic show is "unexpectedly rich" but also "weirdly obsessive," writes Bloomberg critic Linda Yablonsky. More »

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      New York  • art  • painting  • Metropolitan Museum of Art  • Jasper Johns

  • January 2008

    • Long-Serving Met Director Set to Retire

      Bloomberg  |  Jan 9, 08 12:00 PM CST

      Long-Serving Met Director Set to Retire

      (Newser) - Philippe de Montebello, the longest-serving director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will retire by year's end, Bloomberg reports. Since he took over in 1977, the museum has nearly doubled its exhibition space, including popular Greek and Roman antiquities galleries that opened in April; at 4.6 million visitors a year, it's become New York's most-visited attraction. More »

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      New York City  • art  • Metropolitan Museum of Art  • Philippe de Montebello

  • December 2007

    • Metropolitan Museum Scores Arbus Archive

      New York Times  |  Dec 18, 07 9:10 AM CST

      Metropolitan Museum Scores Arbus Archive

      (Newser) - Two years after New York's Metropolitan Museum mounted a landmark Diane Arbus retrospective, the photographer's daughters have donated her complete archives to the museum, reports the New York Times . The gift includes 7,500 rolls of film, hundreds of early photographs, and print sleeves Arbus annotated by hand before she committed suicide in 1971. More »

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      art  • photography  • Metropolitan Museum of Art

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