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After an eight month-long search, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that one of its own curators will succeed outgoing director Philippe de Montebello. Thomas P. Campbell, 46, is Curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts (and Supervising Curator of the Antonio Ratti Textile Center) and mounted the successful Tapestry in the Renaissance and Tapestry in the Baroque shows. Met Board of Trustees chairman James R. Houghton said of Campbell, "He is a distinguished art historian and outstanding curator, who is an ardent advocate for scholarship, connoisseurship, and the highest museum standards, as well as a solid manager and diplomat accustomed to preparing all facets of major exhibitions." And de Montebello, who will step down at the end of the year, said, "Tom Campbell, in my view, is absolutely the right selection."
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Probably because Gothamist readers only care for "street art", the pitiful "waterfalls", things to gape at (Deitch "art" parade, offensive and ugly work) and other contemporary (soon to be as passe as yesterday's news) "art"
fuck you sue. you obviously understand little if anything about art, or when announcements/postings are made on this site or in the larger world.
on the subject of the campbell pick, time will tell. de montebello was the steward of one of the greatest times in the met's history and he will be missed. campbell has the job (unfortunately?) of succeeding him and has a high standard be compared with. best of luck to him and the met. one of my favorite museums.
and i love graffiti!
also maybe no comments because it went up at the end of the day? But there are always posts I wish garnered more comments.
Yes, I would have to contend I know little if anything about what passes for "art" these days- if that is represented by the laughable work at the "New" Museum, the largest assortment of random garbage thrown about, things that would flunk even a first year student in a bachelor's degree.
if Rfive loves graffitti so much, I suggest that street "artists" go and canvas his or her front door every day with "fresh" "work". "Graffitti" is as dead as punk, only to be reincarnated by retro-loving hipsters, phony urban "thugs" and wanna-be's who think they are this generation's basquiat or haring (two obvious references for obvious people).
sue i like your comment...a monumental selection if you ask me
by the way deitch and new museum show some of the worst hipster art...
but we ALL need something to WIPE OUR ASSES with...nonumental..
"Graffitti" is as dead as punk, only to be reincarnated by retro-loving hipsters, phony urban "thugs" and wanna-be's who think they are this generation's basquiat or haring (two obvious references for obvious people)."
yes...funny though my freshman painting class (i teach) didn't know who those people were...is that good or bad?
if you teach art in nyc nonumentalart, its not a bad thing that your kids don't know about those 2. it might be a part of your job to educate them about what other artists have done. you know who they are and understand their place in art history. share it with them and let them run with it.
the new museum is garbage; i believe this post was about the met. suepart admittedly, understands nothing about art, and doesn't speak for gothamist readers who have broader tastes.
obviously rfive to part 1. new museum is garbage, but we must get over anti-art. non conformity = conformity these days....art...sigh