MET MUSEUM NAMES NEW PRESIDENT

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that art historian and administrator Daniel H. Weiss, the current president of Haverford College, will be the next president of the Met. He’ll succeed Emily Kernan Rafferty, who plans to retire at the end of the month, after a decade in the position.

Weiss spent over a decade at Johns Hopkins’s Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, where he worked as chair of the art history department from 1998 through 2001, and served as dean of the faculty for a year in 2001. From 2002 until 2005, Weiss became dean of the entire school, and oversaw 2,700 undergraduates, 1,500 graduate students, and 300 faculty in twenty-three departments. Weiss later served as president and professor of art history at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. In 2013, he became president of Haverford College.

Weiss was the recipient of a College Art Association Millard Meiss publication subsidy for his book Art and Crusade in the Age of Saint Louis (1998). He’s currently on the board of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Council for Library and Information Resources, and the Shipley School.

Stated Daniel Brodsky, chair of the Met’s board of trustees: “Speaking for both our search committee and the entire board, I am most pleased to welcome Daniel Weiss as the next president of the Met. The museum is fortunate to have attracted such an accomplished, creative, and energetic leader to step into this crucial position.”