Max to the Met: museum leadership
① The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ended 14 months of speculation this week when it appointed a new director, following the sudden resignation of Thomas Campbell in February 2017.
② For the first time in over half a century, the Met's new head, who starts work in August, will be an outsider: a 48-year-old Austrian named Max Hollein.
③ Son of a Viennese postmodernist architect, Hans Hollein, and a museum director since he was 31, Mr Hollein has headed several institutions, including the St?del Museum in Frankfurt, home to a significant collection of Old Masters.
④ For the past two years he has run the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, where he advanced his reputation for energetic fundraising and digital innovation.
⑤ Still, New York will be a challenge.
⑥ In San Francisco Mr Hollein oversaw a staff of 500 and an operating budget of $60m.
⑦ The Met has $305m and 2,200 employees at its disposal.
▍生詞好句
max /maks/: n./adv. 最大化/程度（地）
leadership /?li?d???p/: n. 領(lǐng)導(dǎo)才能/力毛嫉；領(lǐng)導(dǎo)層/班子
gala /?ɡɑ?l?/: n. 盛會(huì)；晚會(huì)
metropolitan /?m?tr??p?l?t(?)n/: adj. 大都會(huì)的
metropolis /m??tr?p(?)l?s/: n. 大都會(huì)
speculation /?sp?kj??le??n/: n. 揣測(cè)主之；投機(jī)
speculate /?sp?kj?le?t/: vt. 揣測(cè)皿哨；投機(jī)
resignation /r?z?ɡ?ne??(?)n/: n. 辭職
resign /r??z??n/: vi. 辭職（from the job/post/company）
head /h?d/: n. 領(lǐng)導(dǎo) vt. 擔(dān)任領(lǐng)導(dǎo)罐孝；執(zhí)掌
outsider /a?t?s??d?/: n. 外人抡爹；空降人員
Viennese /v???ni?z/: n./adj. 維也納/維也納人（的）
Vienna /v???n?/: n. 維也納
postmodernist /?p??st?m?d?n?st/: adj. 后現(xiàn)代主義的
architect /?ɑ?k?t?kt/: n. 建筑師
run /r?n/: vt. 運(yùn)營挪圾；管理
advance /?d?vɑ?ns/: vt. 推進(jìn)腌逢；提升
fundraising /?f?nd?re?z??/: n. 籌款降淮；籌資
raise fund/money: 籌款；籌資
oversee /??v??si?/: vt. 管理上忍；監(jiān)督（supervise）
staff /stɑ?f/: n. 員工骤肛；職員
operate /??p?re?t/: vt. 運(yùn)營纳本；操作
at one's disposal /d??sp??z(?)l/: 供……使用/支配
▍相關(guān)背景介紹
1. 世界四大博物館
大英博物館 British museum窍蓝、大都會(huì)藝術(shù)博物館 Metropolitan Museum of Art、盧浮宮 Louvre Museum / Musée du Louvre 和艾爾米塔什博物館 State Hermitage Museum
2. Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from Medieval Europe. On March 18, 2016, the museum opened the Met Breuer museum at Madison Avenue in the Upper East Side; it extends the museum's modern and contemporary art program.
3. St?del Museum
The St?del Museum, officially the St?delsches Kunstinstitut und St?dtische Galerie, is an art museum in Frankfurt, with one of the most important collections in Germany. The St?del Museum owns 2,700 paintings (of which 600 are displayed) and a collection of 100,000 drawings and prints as well as 600 sculptures. It has around 4,000 m2 of display and a library of 100,000 books and 400 periodicals.
4. Old Masters
In art history, "Old Master" (or "old master") refers to any painter of skill who worked in Europe before about 1800, or a painting by such an artist. An "old master print" is an original print (for example an engraving or etching) made by an artist in the same period. The term "old master drawing" is used in the same way.
5. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, comprising the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, is the largest public arts institution in the city of San Francisco and one of the largest art museums in California, United States. The permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museums is organized into nine areas, each with a curatorial staff. There are 150,000 objects in the permanent collection.
