THE MET - Donor Accountability

"How the Met is handling dilemma of donor accountability" PBS NewsHour 5/16/2019

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SUMMARY:  Pressure is increasingly being applied to institutions benefiting from philanthropy to be accountable for their funding sources.  Lately, the opioid epidemic has highlighted that dilemma: New York's famed Metropolitan Museum of Art [The Met] is the latest museum to turn down money from a family linked with the manufacturing of OxyContin.  Jeffrey Brown talks to the Met's president and CEO, Daniel Weiss.

ART - Met’s ‘Delacroix’ Exhibit

"The Met’s ‘Delacroix’ exhibit shows the artist in full" PBS NewsHour 12/4/2018

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SUMMARY:  “Delacroix,” a retrospective of the 19th century French painter Eugène Delacroix, is a blockbuster show running this month at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  An ambitious Romantic, Delacroix is known for such paintings as “Women of Algiers” and is considered a key bridge to the Impressionist movement.  Jeffrey Brown reports from the Met in New York City, where he speaks with curator Asher Miller.