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 Städel 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.
▍生词好句
max /maks/: n./adv. 最大化/程度（地）
leadership /ˈliːdəʃɪp/: n. 领导才能/力；领导层/班子
gala /ˈɡɑːlə/: n. 盛会；晚会
metropolitan /ˌmɛtrəˈpɒlɪt(ə)n/: adj. 大都会的
metropolis /mɪˈtrɒp(ə)lɪs/: n. 大都会
speculation /ˌspɛkjʊˈleɪʃn/: n. 揣测；投机
speculate /ˈspɛkjʊleɪt/: vt. 揣测；投机
resignation /rɛzɪɡˈneɪʃ(ə)n/: n. 辞职
resign /rɪˈzʌɪn/: vi. 辞职（from the job/post/company）
head /hɛd/: n. 领导 vt. 担任领导；执掌
outsider /aʊtˈsʌɪdə/: n. 外人；空降人员
Viennese /vɪəˈniːz/: n./adj. 维也纳/维也纳人（的）
Vienna /vɪˈɛnə/: n. 维也纳
postmodernist /ˌpəʊstˈmɒdənɪst/: adj. 后现代主义的
architect /ˈɑːkɪtɛkt/: n. 建筑师
run /rʌn/: vt. 运营；管理
advance /ədˈvɑːns/: vt. 推进；提升
fundraising /ˈfʌndˌreɪzɪŋ/: n. 筹款；筹资
raise fund/money: 筹款；筹资
oversee /əʊvəˈsiː/: vt. 管理；监督（supervise）
staff /stɑːf/: n. 员工；职员
operate /ˈɒpəreɪt/: vt. 运营；操作
at one's disposal /dɪˈspəʊz(ə)l/: 供……使用/支配
▍相关背景介绍
1. 世界四大博物馆
大英博物馆 British museum、大都会艺术博物馆 Metropolitan Museum of Art、卢浮宫 Louvre Museum / Musée du Louvre 和艾尔米塔什博物馆 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. Städel Museum
The Städel Museum, officially the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, is an art museum in Frankfurt, with one of the most important collections in Germany. The Städel 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.
