Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art "is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.
"Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City's Central Park along Fifth Avenue (from 80th to 84th Streets)." [1]
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Trustees (2008-9)
Accessed June 2010: [2]
- Chairman - James R. Houghton
- Vice Chairmen - S. Parker Gilbert, Annette de la Renta, Henry B. Schacht
Elective Trustees
Term Ending September 2010
- Leon D. Black, Wellington Z. Chen, S. Parker Gilbert, Joyce Frank Menschel, Jeffrey M. Peek, Henry B. Schacht, Shelby White, Malcolm H. Wiener
Term Ending September 2011
- Renée E. Belfer, Daniel Brodsky, Russell L. Carson, Mark Fisch, James R. Houghton, Philip H. Isles, Bruce C. Ratner, Ann G. Tenenbaum
Term Ending September 2012
- Jeffrey W. Greenberg, Bonnie B. Himmelman, Susana Torruella Leval, James J. Ross, Bonnie J. Sacerdote, James E. Shipp, Lulu C. Wang, Barrie A. Wigmore
Term Ending September 2013
- Paula Cussi, Conrad K. Harper, David H. Koch, Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani, Cynthia Hazen Polsky, Annette de la Renta, Frank E. Richardson, Oscar Tang
Term Ending September 2014
- Gayle Perkins Atkins, Richard L. Chilton, Jr., Robert D. Joffe, William C. Rudin, Alejandro Santo Domingo, Andrew M. Saul
Ex Ofcio Trustees
- Michael R. Bloomberg, Gail Hilson, Mayoral Designee, Christine Quinn, Jeff Soref, Adrian Benepe, Kate D. Levin, William Thompson, Sally Minard
- Thomas P. Campbell - Director, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Emily K. Rafferty - President, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Trustees Emeriti
- Placido Arango, Mrs. Jackson Burke, Walter Burke, Richard V. Clarke, Michel David-Weill, Daniel P. Davison, Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen, Mrs. Henry J. Heinz II, Sir Joseph E. Hotung, Mrs. Herbert Irving, Henry A. Kissinger, Barnabas McHenry, Mary R. Morgan, George B. Munroe, Eliot C. Nolen, Robert M. Pennoyer, Milton Petrie, E. John Rosenwald, Jr., David T. Schiff, Muriel Silberstein-Storfer, Carl Spielvogel, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Allan Weissglass, Jayne Wrightsman
Honorary Trustees
- Mrs. Russell B. Aitken, Max N. Berry, Jean Bonna, Diane W. Burke, Karen B. Cohen, Yannis Costopoulos, Lewis B. Cullman, Norma W. Hess, Mary Jaharis, Anna-Maria Kellen, Rahmi M. Koç, Kenneth Jay Lane, Samuel H. Lindenbaum, Jan Mitchell, John A. Moran, Roy R. Neuberger, Sandra Priest Rose, Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah, Mrs. Herman D. Shickman, Eugene V. Thaw, David Tobey, Charlotte C. Weber, Anna Wintour, Erving Wolf
Criticism
- John Hess, The Grand Acquisitors (Houghton Mifflin, 1974).
