Former Met Director Thomas Hoving Passes Away

Starting the day off with a sad announcement. The Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s former director, Thomas Hoving, passed away late last week at the age of 78. Hoving ran the Met for a decade, following a very successful, but brief stint as New York City’s Parks Commissioner in the mid-60s, something fondly remembered here in this post by both retired NY Times reporter Ralph Blumenthal and one from author George Prochnik. His entire career was chronicled in his own trouble-making, Met-despised memoir, Making