Egypt
The Canadian Press
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- The Grand Acquisitor
ArtNet (Thomas Hoving) It is impossible to give a flavour of this article by pulling out a few paragraphs from it, but here goes with a couple of extracts. Do go and read the entire thing if you want to find out what it's all about! Thomas Hoving...
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Egypt
Met Museum director gets going-away exhibit
The Canadian Press
When Philippe de Montebello announced his retirement earlier this year, the curators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art quickly came up with the perfect going-away gift for their long-serving director.
An exhibit, of course.
It was a mammoth task: In more than 30 years as director, de Montebello has overseen the acquisition of more than 84,000 objects, from sculptures to scrolls to paintings to pendants.
Around 300 of those artworks have been pulled together for "The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions," which opens Friday and runs through Feb. 1. De Montebello, 72, is retiring at the end of the year after being at the Met's helm since 1977.
De Montebello said the show came as "a wonderful surprise."
"When one's professional staff pays tribute to you, that gives you a sense that you've done something right," he said in an interview.
The curators had hoped to keep the exhibit a surprise for de Montebello, said Helen Evans, the curator who coordinated the show. . . .
Instead, the show moves roughly chronologically through de Montebello's years at the museum, with the result that works of art are juxtaposed with each other in ways they aren't normally. Paintings, sculptures, photographs, weapons, clothing, furniture - it's all there, sometimes making for some unusual neighbors, such as an Egyptian statue next to a sculpture from the people of Easter Island.
See the above page for the full story.
- The Grand Acquisitor
ArtNet (Thomas Hoving) It is impossible to give a flavour of this article by pulling out a few paragraphs from it, but here goes with a couple of extracts. Do go and read the entire thing if you want to find out what it's all about! Thomas Hoving...
- Thomas Campbell Named Met Museum's New Director
Suite 101 (Stan Parchin) Stan Parchin has provided a great introduction to the new Director of the MMA. Here's an extract but see the above page for the full story: Curator of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The Met, the world-renowned authority...
- Met Chooses Tapestries Curator To Lead Museum
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....
- Exhibition: De Montebello Exhibit At The Met
Suite 101 (Stan Parchin) Thanks to Stan for letting me know that in the above exhibition, for which details are provided on the above page, the Egyptian collection will be well represented: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will present The...
- Defending Unprovenanced Artefacts
http://tinyurl.com/fcaet (New York Times) An article about Philippe de Montebello, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: "In a wide-ranging interview last week, just a day after he returned from signing a final agreement in Rome, Mr. de Montebello...