Galleries of the World

Museums An interview with the Met's Daniel H. Weiss Last summer, Daniel H. Weiss was named president and chief executive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the United States. In addition to its iconic building on Fifth Avenue, the Met now includes the Cloisters, which is located in northern Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park and specializes in medieval Europe, and the Breuer, the former Whitney Museum, currently a showcase for modern and contemporary art. [...]our recent exhibition, Talking Pictures: Camera-Phone Conversations Between Artists, explores how contemporary artists use digital devices to communicate with colleagues. In the winter of 2017, the Museum of Modern Art responded to the travel ban ofcitizensfrom Muslim-mąjority countries in dramaticfashion: it sprinkled artfrom Iran, Iraq, and Sudan into its permanent collection.