I’m a stickler for spelling.
So when I visited the website for Phillips Oppenheim, the New York search firm that the Metropolitan Museum has just retained “to help organize and staff the international search for the institution’s next director,” I did not get a good feeling when I saw that the chosen headhunters had spelled the name of one of their cultural clients as “Hirschhorn.” They will probably have corrected their gaffe by the time many of you read this, so you’ll have to trust me.
If you’re not deterred by misspellings, and you think you’re the one for this job, the Met’s press release helpfully supplies the names of Laurie Nash and Sarah James, who have been assigned “to staff the search,” along with their phone number and e-mail address.
Does Max Anderson have an inside track here? Phillips Oppenheim helped him land his current position as director of the Indianapolis Museum.
I think I ought to expedite the search firm’s task by telling them whom they should pick. I need to revisit this subject some time soon. I’m still thinking about it, though, so you can e-mail your résumés to CultureGrrl. (Just kidding!)