The Players in the Race to Replace Philippe de Montebello

As we reported a while back, one of the biggest museum news stories this year was the announcement that Philippe de Montebello had decided to retire as the director of the Met. Later we learned that he was heading to NYU to become the first professor to teach the history and culture of museums. But with all this focus on Philippe, what’s been going on over at the Met in trying to replace the longtime director? Fortunately, Lee Rosenbaum has the whole scoop, or rather, predictions