I’m off the Guggenheim for a press lunch previewing the new season.
Will we also get to preview the expected new director? I doubt it. Carol Vogel didn’t have the announcement in today’s NY Times…or is there a new, fairer news release method afoot among New York museums? The way that the Met rolled out its Tom Campbell announcement, and the fact that at a recent press reception a large group of scribes were informed by director Glenn Lowry about the Museum of Modern Art’s new Braque acquisition the evening before it appeared in the NY Times (not much advance notice, but still…) gives me cause for cautious optimism.
I’ll have more commentary eventually about MoMA, which got preempted by the big news from the Met.