Malcolm On De Montebello

No, Malcolm Rogers hasn't been named as one of the potential candidates to replace Philippe de Montebello. But the Museum of Fine Arts director offered some advice, via the Wall Street Journal, to the Met's trustees as they search for a successor.

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"Malcolm Rogers, director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, worries that trustees could be making their list too short. What they need to find, if possible, is a baby boomer with enough drive to juggle the job's myriad hats, he says. He cited the Met's decision in 1977 to hire de Montebello as director even though he had run the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston for only about four years. "They gambled on Philippe years ago, and loook how it paid off," says Mr. Rogers."