$form.find('.invalid-email').show().siblings().hide(); var $email = $form.find('.signup-email'); + '' addCss('https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/animate.css/3.5.2/animate.min.css'); âI wanted to take a minute to write a 5-STAR review for DANIEL WEISS at COLDWELL BANKER SLEGG REALTY. // Extends jQuery with a function to serialize to JSON //default prefix is 'artnet_newsletter_' That suggests there are at least some obvious places to increase profitability at the museum. } return; In my own experience, the first challenge is always the least obvious one: what, actually, is the job I was hired to do? if (prefix == undefined) { We’ve addressed some of the operational challenges that we had there, and we’re on a path to having retail be a robust, strong contributor to our overall financial picture. // Signup submission } As a professor of art history, he brought his undergraduate students to the Met on field trips. And then, how do you do that job in a way that works for him, and that works for us? pagetype = document.querySelector('meta[property="og:type"]').getAttribute("content"), .done(function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) { var c = ca[i]; var settings = cookieSettings[cookieName]; var ctx = this; $modal.css({ Well, as you said, we’ve put together a very robust financial plan to get us to a balanced budget by 2020. loadFontAwesome: false }); } Únete a Facebook para estar en contacto con Dan Weiss y otras personas que tal vez conozcas. function slideInModal(upOrDown) { From all indications, for instance, Hollein is as animated about the business affairs as he is about the curatorial side. closedSignupBar: { Originally brought on in 2015 as the successor to the redoubtable Met president Emily Kernan Rafferty, Weiss was first charged with helping then-director Thomas Campbell chart the museum’s choppy financial and administrative waters. pagetypeforce = pagetypeurl.substr(pagetypeurl.length - 3); return o; Well, I’ll share with you the honest answer, which is that it didn’t for a single moment appeal to me to be the director of the institution in the way that the role is defined. We’re on very good path to doing that. All Rights Reserved.var w = Math.max(document.documentElement.clientWidth, window.innerWidth || 0), First of all, he’s a very experienced leader of great achievement at a variety of different cultural institutions in various locations in the world. if (c.indexOf(name) == 0) { $('body').on( 'click', '.close-signup', function(){ h = Math.max(document.documentElement.clientHeight, window.innerHeight || 0), D.B. Photo courtesy of the Met. + '<\/div>' found = false; } appendNewsletterSignup(); “And when I saw that photograph, I was just drawn to it.”. They’ve always been there for us. /** Our introduction to Daniel began a couple years ago, with the dream/wish/desire of my parents to retire to Vancouver Island. ctx.submit($form, onSuccess); }); o[this.name].push(this.value || ''); $form.find('.errors').children().hide(); But when I think of myself, my own professional identity is as an art historian. setTimeout(function() { e.preventDefault(); It’s clear that Hollein has a deep, lived-in familiarity with Modern and contemporary art owing both to his museum experience and his upbringing, when his father’s status gave him intimate access to the greatest artists of the era. So, that told us: this is an adaptable, capable, experienced leader—and it’s clear that he is those things. callback: function() { d.setTime(d.getTime() + (expMinutes*60*1000)); If were getting 90 percent of our funding from the government—and we get less than 10 percent from the City of New York—it would have an effect on our program, and it would have an effect on our identity. He’s adaptable, his ability to work productively with people across the organization is demonstrable, his effective intelligence is very high, and he knows how to be successful. var expirationMinutes = settings.expiration_minutes; Max’s own particular intellectual interests lend themselves especially to the Met. + 'Thank you for subscribing!' + '
' More specifically, he brings an understanding of the Modern and contemporary art worlds that will allow him to work with our curatorial team, the public, and our supporters in ways that will help us navigate to the right strategic niche for us to occupy in the Modern art question. + '<\/div>' Explore more on Dan Weiss. // =================================================================== //and we can just return here. It’s not so obvious to me that there are good examples, because most art museums are a fraction of the size of the Met—they don’t require that same kind of robust structure. Ver perfiles de personas llamadas Dan Weiss. + '' var $modal = $('#ouibounce-modal'); document.body.appendChild(script); He plays in the band Dan Ex Machina. Julia Halperin, + '
' But I think it’s foolhardy for anyone to think that an institution like the Metropolitan Museum of Art can be run by people who don’t have deep experience of how large, complex organizations function. This is the first installment of a two-part interview. Being the director of the Met is one of the great jobs and we made a superb appointment with a really strong person. Sad news my friends: after (very) briefly thinking we here at DWMC could make this work on a shortened schedule, itâs become very clear that due to new jobs and schedules it is time for ⦠checkCookies(); var i = cookieNames.length, $.ajax({ initNewsletterSignup(); That’s the real question. But having a strong vision at the right altitude of who we are and how Modern art fits into that is his responsibility. But the points of intersection will take place every day. Raised in the New York City borough of Queens, Weiss possessed a commanding presence that was evident by age 5 or 6, when he organized the neighborhood boys in an army-like outfit and marched them in formation down the street, according to his mother. } We’ll email you whenever we publish another article by J.J Goldberg. A day at the Met. + '<\/div>' And our goal for retail is that it should be as high-performing as any museum-related retail operation is and held in balance with other things. } He located the friend to whom O’Donnell had sent his poem, then the soldier’s sister, and compiled every imaginable scrap of paper on the man. Andrew Goldstein, } var ctx = this; The first challenge is to figure out the job, and he’s done that really effectively in Frankfurt and San Francisco. Join Facebook to connect with Dan Weiss and others you may know. }, 7500); View Dan Weissâ profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. $('body').append(signup); } var ctx = this; } } I came to the Met as president and chief operating officer, and then when Tom left I was asked to be chief executive officer, which I agreed to do. News. // Hide the errors + ' @media (max-width: 767px){ .close-signup {top:0 !important;} }' $form.submit(function(e){ } + '
' Is that an apt way of describing the division of labor, or will it be more porous? + '