Revolving Door: Cooper-Hewitt Director Paul Warwick Thompson Turns in Resignation

Big news afoot at the Cooper-Hewitt. It was announced late Friday that the museum’s director, Paul Warwick Thompson, has decided to resign and will be leaving in August of next year to become the president of the Royal College of Art in the UK. Having been in his current role since 2001 and overseeing a lot of the building boom surrounding one of the few Smithsonian institutions that has grown rapidly over the years and hasn’t suffered from things like its leads getting busted for improper spending, the Cooper-Hewitt is now starting up a search for who to replace Thompson.