After 30 years as director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, it’s hard to imagine anyone except Philippe de Montebello in the job.

Unless, that is, Museum of Modern Art Director Glenn D. Lowry wants to fill it.

That could happen. If Lowry wants to step up from MoMA, the Met — arguably the leading art museum in the Western world — would be the place to go. First, of course, de Montebello would have to step down, and he has shown no signs of doing that.

“I’m not leaving,” de Montebello told me last week at a preview for “The Age of Rembrandt,” an exhibition opening tomorrow at the Met.

Sometime in the foreseeable future, though, the 71-year-old Met chief is expected to retire. And Lowry, 52, has emerged as a top name among possible successors that art-world insiders have been secretly batting about.

That is not great news, especially given the options.

Read full article (Bloomberg, September 17, 2007)

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