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Jan 10, 2008 04:49 AM by Stefan Beck
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that Philippe de Montebello, the museum’s director for three decades, will step down at the end of the year. Eric Gibson, a New Criterion contributor and the Leisure & Arts features editor of the Wall Street Journal, has written a fitting tribute to Mr. de Montebello, one which doubles as a caveat to those in charge of selecting his replacement:
Even The New York Times has joined in the rush to heap well-deserved accolades upon Mr. de Montebello. Here’s part of a brief but well-deserved appreciation of the great director. It more or less confirms Gibson’s judgment that he truly has been a “conservative as radical”:
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