I’ve just returned from a full-day audio-editing workshop at my alma mater—Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism—so I couldn’t restrain myself from bringing you these soundbites excerpted (and spliced together) from Tom Campbell‘s press conference that occurred the day after he was named to become the next director of the Metropolitan Museum.
Here, he (sort of) addresses questions about two hot-button issues bedeviling the Met: the handling of antiquities controversies (my question) and the role of contemporary art at the museum (asked by a reporter for the London Times):
Now if only I had the equipment for better sound quality!