It has 1.5m artefacts, 6m visitors, 2,000 staff – and gets by on donations. Max Hollein, the Met’s Austrian-born boss, relives his first five years, when he faced accusations of hoarding, narco-philanthropy and male dominance Max Hollein is sitting in his airy fifth-floor office in New York. Through one window is a view of Central Park, through another the rolling roofscape of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which he has led for the past five and a half years. On his office walls are paintings... Read this story
