“The National Gallery could be bigger in the sense of its national profile. The National Gallery’s conventional approach stems from its unusual structure as a quasi-federal organization. Dickerson was a curator at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth before Powell brought him to Washington in 2015. The posting’s stated priority of making “the National Gallery truly national . The Metropolitan Museum of Art had 38.3 million visitors, the Museum of Modern Art 27.7 million visitors and the Getty Museum 14.7 million.

Source: Washington Post August 29, 2018 18:49 UTC