Congratulations to Mike Hearn on being named to head the Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An article by Grace Patuwo in the Yale Daily News of January 12, 2011 reports:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced yesterday that Maxwell (Mike) Hearn ’71 has been chosen as the next Douglas Dillon Curator in Charge of the Department of Asian Art.
James Watt, the current chairman of the department, retires this June.
“Mike has long played a major role in the department,” Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas Campbell said in a press release. . . .
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