Thomas P. Campbell has been selected as the Met’s next chief.For most of his career Thomas P. Campbell has presided over a tiny corner of art history that few people know or care much about: those grand European tapestries that were the obsession of kings and queens, popes and noblemen.
“It was an art form of magnificence, and it was an art form of propaganda,” he said Wednesday afternoon in an interview at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “It was a subject that engaged the greatest patrons of the day and the greatest artists of the time.”
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