by Jon Lackman | 10 September 2008 | Museums
The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis chose the wrong time to announce their new chief curator, the Baltimore Museum of Art contemporary art head, Darsie Alexander. Everyone is now too busy reporting another story, “Ending months of fervid speculation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reached into its own ranks on Tuesday and chose Thomas P. Campbell, a 46-year-old English-born tapestries curator, to succeed Philippe de Montebello as director and chief executive.”
In the May 2008 issue of Textile History, Maria Hayward reviewed Campbell’s 2007 book Henry VIII and the Art of Majesty: Tapestries at the Tudor Court:
highly impressive in the scope of its scholarship … a very well researched and skilful analysis of Henry VIII’s tapestry collection … Campbell makes a highly convincing case in this book for these objects to be seen as a visual expression of the religious, political and intellectual culture at the Henrician court … this book marks a key point in the development of tapestry studies and it will fill a very significant gap in the historiography … a very impressive book … a splendid achievement.
