Inside the Met’s Major Move Into Contemporary Art

The job description of the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art has, for most of its century and a half of existence, remained pretty much unchanged. In addition to all the standard museum-director duties, you hobnob with the Gotham financial titans who sit on the board; act as cultural emissary from the Upper East Side, beckoning the rest of the city to come visit; and watch over the 1.5 million items from 5,000 years of creativity housed in the citadel in Central Park. Max Hollein, who’s been director since 2019, does things differently. Born in Vienna, the dapper, hugely… Read Full Article