Thomas P. Campbell: Weaving narratives in museum galleries
Thomas P. Campbell: Tejiendo relatos en las galerías de los museos
Thomas P. Campbell, director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, aims to make the venerable museum's offerings both narrative-driven and accessible. Full bio
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adentrarme en el mundo del arte,
era un italiano cascarrabias
apenas vestidos,
y después simplemente
en lugar de observarlas,
había sido contemporáneo alguna vez.
en cuanto a este mensaje,
hiciéramos preguntas básicas sobre los objetos.
un profesional de la historia del arte.
algunos años después,
de las cortes del Europa del norte.
componente que faltaba,
con descripciones de tapices.
podían representar a los héroes
en que la imagen visual
Phillippe de Montebello
contamos con bastante tiempo de anticipación.
para meterlos al museo,
para resaltar los colores que quedaban
para resaltar la seda y el hilo de oro;
en la que estamos tan acostumbrados
Estos eran objetos grandes, complejos,
lograr que se tomaran su tiempo,
las semanas y meses siguientes,
vinieron a ver el espectáculo.
para ser una experiencia,
de cortesanos y hombres elegantes
de la prensa de moda actual,
de mi hijo de 8 años
ya saben, eran niños pequeños,
(Risas)
Creo que de repente vieron
Sentí que había cambiado un poco el paradigma.
que sólo podía haber sido creada
¡Ni siquiera uso corbata!"--
que se conserva la integridad
durante toda su carrera
la confianza de los diseñadores
sumamente envolventes,
los objetos individuales,
revelar las civilizaciones,
son uno de estos casos,
y después fue detonado
acerca de a dónde nos dirigimos.
de la sexualidad juvenil.
(Aplausos)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Thomas P. Campbell - Museum directorThomas P. Campbell, director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, aims to make the venerable museum's offerings both narrative-driven and accessible.
Why you should listen
Thomas P. Campbell became the ninth Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in January of 2009. Since he began, Campbell has pursued an agenda for the Met that focuses on scholarship and accessibility. These priorities maintain the Museum’s excellence in its exhibitions, publications, acquisitions and permanent collections, while encouraging new thinking about the visitor experience. Further initiatives include exploring the judicious use of technology in the Museum and fully integrating education into all the Met’s activities.
Campbell led the Met through the fiscal setbacks caused by the 2008 recession without reducing hours, gallery openings or programs. He launched an effort to redesign the Museum’s website which now attracts more than 50 million visits per year. FY2011 also saw the Met’s highest attendance in 40 years, rising to 5.6 million. The Museum has just opened new galleries for its Islamic Art Department and American Wing, and is working on plans to renovate The Costume Institute and to reconfigure the outdoor plaza and fountains. In 2011, Campbell announced a collaboration with the Whitney Museum in which the Met will program its landmark Breuer Building on Madison Avenue starting in 2015.
Campbell had worked in the Metropolitan's Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts for fourteen years, rising steadily through the curatorial ranks as Assistant Curator (1995-97), Associate Curator (1997-2003), and Curator (2003 to December 2008). During this time, he conceived and organized the major exhibitions Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence (2002) and Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor (New York, 2007; Palacio Real, Madrid, spring 2008), both of which incorporated drawings, paintings, and prints, as well as tapestries, and received widespread acclaim. The 2002 exhibition was named "Exhibition of the Year" by Apollo Magazine and its catalogue won the Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Award (College Art Association) for distinguished exhibition catalogue in the history of art (2003). Since shortly after his arrival at the Museum, he also served as Supervising Curator of The Antonio Ratti Textile Center, which houses the Museum's encyclopedic collection of 36,000 textiles and is one of the preeminent centers of textile studies in the world.
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