by Jon Lackman | 20 May 2008 | Uncategorized
From The New York Times:
Philippe de Montebello will … become the first professor to teach the history and culture of museums … Mr. de Montebello, who turned 72 on Friday, said he planned to teach full time. But rather than lecturing on what might seem most obvious — how to run a museum, for example, or the history of 15th- and 16th-century French and Netherlandish painting, his scholarly area of expertise — he said he would cover the history of collecting and connoisseurship and the evolution of museums, including the central issue of how the museum’s mission can be defined in today’s world.
