Ousted Met director Thomas P. Campbell is interviewed in Art Newspaper this week, and offers his take on a range of issues, including the museum’s currently postponed expansion project. “We can’t go out into the marketplace to buy works of art that are $50m, $60m or $70m apiece,” he says. “What we can do, and what the Met has always done, is build beautiful galleries so that donors and collectors will see us as a worthy destination.”Read more at Art Newspaper
