The Story Behind Richard Armstrong's Hiring at the Guggenheim

Following up on one of the two museum stories of the year, Richard Armstrong taking over for Thomas Krens as the head of the Guggenheim (the second being Thomas Campbell replacing Philippe de Montebello over at the Met), the NY Times‘ Carol Vogel has gone back in time to report on the hiring process, making sure Armstrong was the right guy for the job and all those applicants they looked at well (we applied, but we forgot to include the $25 fee, so we didn’t make the cut).