The Cranky Professor (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Has the Met has gone a-whoring after recent art? In a phone interview, Mr. de Montebello praised Mr. Campbell’s appointment. “He’s the most modern of us all,” he said, invoking Met directors. “We’ve had a Romanist, a medievalist, but he...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, headlines the 2008-09 Mary Atkins Series at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Montebello will give the first lecture Sept. 25 on the topic, Museums: Why Should We Care.
New York Post (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
ONE unwelcome chore for Thomas Campbell, director-elect of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will be the repercussions from "Rogues' Gallery" by Michael Gross - the exposé Campbell's predecessor, Philippe de Montebello, failed to stop. Though it's...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
"This choice is fresh, daring, and unconventional. Under Philippe de Montebello's directorship--he retires at the end of the year--the magnificent stone pile on Fifth Avenue has become the most exciting museum in the world. And I feel fairly sure that the selection of Campbell is going to be remembered as the last miraculous act of the de Montebello years."...
AFP Blog: Recent News of Note (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
The Man Who Remade the Met: "The Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded in 1870, is enjoying a golden age. And if a single person can be said to have shaped this extraordinary era, it’s Philippe de Montebello, the director of the museum since 1977."
Authentic Art DC (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Thomas P. Campbell, who has worked in the Met's department of European sculpture and decorative arts for more than thirteen years, will succeed Philippe de Montebello, effective January 1. More here.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
NEW YORK.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that Thomas P. Campbell an accomplished curator with a specialty in European tapestry who has worked at the Museum since 1995 has been elected its next Director and CEO, succeeding Philippe de Montebello, who announced in January his intention to retire from the Metropolitan Museum at the end of this year. Mr.
New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
On the night that the Met announced that Thomas P. Campbell would be its new director, his chief in-house rival for the job, Gary Tinterow, had been invited to a dinner at gallerist Marian Goodman’s house. But he didn’t show. Tinterow, who oversees nineteenth-century, modern, and contemporary art, was a favorite of departing director Philippe de Montebello, but the board picked Campbell,...
New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
... with muscular thighs. The Met looked to its own bench in selecting Thomas P. Campbell to replace Philippe de Montebello as the museum’s director. The still-newish New Museum snapped up its next-door neighbor on the Bowery. Lehman Brothers said it would announce a $3.9 billion loss, then tried to find a deep-pocketed buyer. Golden boy Michael Phelps rang the opening NYSE bell and hosted...
Off Center (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
New York is abuzz with the news of a successor to Met director Philippe de Montebello, but we are just as excited to announce the appointment of a new chief curator, Darsie Alexander. Joining us on November 10, Alexander comes to the Walker from the Baltimore Museum of Art, where she most recently served as [...]
The Culture Czar (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced yesterday that Thomas P. Campbell would be successor to Met director and chief executive Philippe de Montebello, ending a search that lasted eight months. Mr. Campbell is a 46-year old, English-born tapestries curator, who has been at the Met since 1995. More after the jump from the New York Times: read more »
Vulture (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Yesterday, following an intense eight-month search, the Metropolitan Museum of Art named Thomas P. Campbell its new director, a post soon to be vacated by the retiring Philippe de Montebello, who's been the Met's chief executive for a record 31 years. Campbell, the museum's tapestry curator since 1995, beat out a host of other qualified finalists including several more-senior Met curators...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
New York Times Ending months of fervid speculation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reached into its ranks on Tuesday and chose Thomas P. Campbell, a 46-year-old British-born tapestries curator, to succeed Philippe de Montebello as director and chief executive. Visitors at "Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor" an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum that Thomas P. Campbell curated...
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
The Metropolitan Museum has picked someone to succeed retiring director Philippe de Montebello who is expected to perpetuate his predecessor's legacy, not overturn it.
greg.org: the making of (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
I really didn't follow the Metropolitan Museum's horse race to see who would replace Philippe de Montebello as director, but I find myself caring deeply that it's tapestry curator Thomas Campbell. Campbell's two shows on Renaissance and Baroque tapestries in...
