Thomas P. Campbell

(1962) Art Historian United States

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Thomas P. Campbell is an art historian from the United States, best known for Tapestry in the Renaissance.

Quick Facts About Thomas P. Campbell

Born: January 1, 1962
Nationality: United States
Profession: Art Historian
Notable works: Tapestry in the Renaissance

About Thomas P. Campbell

Thomas Patrick Campbell is the director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF), overseeing the de Young and Legion of Honor museums. He served as the director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art between 2009 and 2017. On 30 June 2017, Campbell stepped down as director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art under pressure and accepted the Getty Foundation's Rothschild Fellowship for research and study at both the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and at Waddesdon Manor, in the UK.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Quotes by Thomas P. Campbell

I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us…

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America

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What I am out to do is make sure that the Met continues to be the most exciting encyclopedic museum in the…

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Art

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The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any…

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Culture

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I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching,

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Book

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My goal is that we should have a rich engagement online that caters to a general and scholarly audience and that can…

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Audience

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My day starts at 8 in the morning. I have meetings through the day into the evening and very often dinners and…

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Benefits

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Schiaparelli’s collaborations with Dali and Cocteau as well as Prada’s Fondazione Prada push art and fashion ever closer, in a direct, synergistic,…

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Art

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The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like…

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European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.

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Budgets

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We live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and... it's in our galleries that we can unpack the civilizations that we're…

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Challenge

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Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of…

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Authenticity

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Technology is in fact one of the most exciting things that's happened to museums today - but one has to be careful…

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About

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Museums are like the quiet car of the world. It's a place you can come to escape, where there's authenticity, there's uniqueness,…

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Authenticity

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When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what…

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Thomas P. Campbell by topic

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