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Wanted: Museum Director
to Marry Art, Commerce

Jul 15, 2008 2:45 PM CDT

Wanted: Museum Director to Marry Art, Commerce

Unique job description complicates search for Guggenheim, Met, others

(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...

Scandal-Master Courbet Dazzles

NEW RELEASE

Feb 29, 2008 2:55 PM CST

Scandal-Master Courbet Dazzles

Major retrospective sheds light on realist painter

(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...

For Jasper Johns, Gray Matters

OPINION

Feb 8, 2008 1:56 PM CST

For Jasper Johns, Gray Matters

Monochromatic Met show opens to raves

(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...

Long-Serving Met Director
Set to Retire

Jan 9, 2008 12:00 PM CST

Long-Serving Met Director Set to Retire

Philippe de Montebello transformed New York's most popular attraction

(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...

Metropolitan Museum Scores Arbus Archive

Dec 18, 2007 9:10 AM CST

Metropolitan Museum Scores Arbus Archive

Priceless gift includes thousands of negatives, annotated prints

(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...