DOROTHEA ARNOLD RETIRES FROM METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

Curator, scholar, and archaeologist Dorothea Arnold will be retiring from her post as head of the department of Egyptian art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She began at the museum in 1985. Thomas Campbell, director of the Met, said, according to Artdaily, “For the past twenty-seven years, Dorothea Arnold has served as a highly respected member of our curatorial staff. Her contributions to her field have been enormous—as a long-time archaeologist, noted scholar and author, curator of important exhibitions, and leader of an impressive team of experts in the department of Egyptian art. She has also overseen the reinstallation of many of her department’s galleries, where almost all of the museum’s vast Egyptian art holdings, numbering around 30,000 works of art, are on display. These galleries are among the Met’s most studied and most visited by our millions of visitors from around the world each year.”