Fauci’s Out, His Portrait’s Still In, Fake Basquiats & Billion-Dollar Auction

At the end of each month, I’ll write a reprise of recent art news. Some of it won’t be fresh meat exactly, but museum time is like biblical time. Think Moses wandering the wilderness for 40 years, or Methuselah living to 969, or Sarah conceiving Isaac when she was 90. Things happen but at less-than-supersonic speed.

Daniel Weiss, the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 2015, announced earlier this summer that he’s leaving in a year. Weiss, then the president of Haverford College, was hired by the Met’s trustees to right not only the museum’s fraught finances but also a surfeit of FUBAR operations.

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At the end of each month, I’ll write a reprise of recent art news. Some of it won’t be fresh meat exactly, but museum time is like biblical time. Think Moses wandering the wilderness for 40 years, or Methuselah living to 969, or Sarah conceiving Isaac when she was 90. Things happen but at less-than-supersonic speed.

Daniel Weiss, the president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 2015, announced earlier this summer that he’s leaving in a year. Weiss, then the president of Haverford College, was hired by the Met’s trustees to right not only the museum’s fraught finances but also a surfeit of FUBAR operations.