Met's Dan Weiss Visits Dickinson College to Discuss Museums, Society and the Public Interest
Daniel H. Weiss, President and CEO, Metropolitan Museum of Art (courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art).
Free, public address made possible through Weiner Lecture program
by MaryAlice Bitts-Jackson
As president and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) in New York City, Dan Weiss stands at the helm of one of the largest and most diverse art museums in the world. On March 7, he’ll come to campus to deliver a free, public address.
After earning a B.A. in psychology and art history at George Washington University, Weiss entered the business world, garnering an MBA from the Yale School of Management and serving in the management consultancy firm Booz, Allen & Hamilton. From there, he earned a master's and Ph.D. in medieval and modern art from Johns Hopkins University and became professor of art history and dean at Johns Hopkins University. Academic presidencies followed at Lafayette College, then Haverford College, before Weiss moved to the Met.
Weiss became the Met’s fifth president in 2015 and its president and CEO in 2017. Established in 1929, the Met has approximately two million objects in its collection, representing more than 5,000 years of artistic achievement. Seven million visitors are estimated to visit the museum annually.
“Dan Weiss is one of the most important museum professionals in the world today,” says Melinda Schlitt, professor of art history. “The educational benefits that students gain from the opportunity to meet one-on-one with someone of Weiss’s position and stature cannot be overstated, and future professional connections are often formed from in this kind of dialogue.”
Weiss visits campus through the Jane L. and Robert H. Weiner Lecture in the Arts program, sponsored by the Department of Art & Art History.
The most recent Weiner lecturers are:
- Lalla Essaydi, photographer and painter (2018)
- Eugene Wang, art historian (2017)
- Mary Miss, environmental artist (2016)
- Holland Cotter, art critic (2015)
- Judith Schaechter, stained-glass artist (2014)
Weiss’ lecture, “Museums, Society and the Public Interest,” will be held in the Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts, Thursday, March 7, at 5:30 p.m.
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Published February 27, 2019