Amid Controversy, Philadelphia Art Museum Names Former Met Museum CEO as New Director

With its board having abruptly ousted its director earlier this month, the Philadelphia Art Museum has already found in a new leader in Daniel H. Weiss, the former president and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.Weiss left the Met in 2023, having helped lead that New York institution for eight years. Since then, he has served as a professor and a senior adviser to the provost for the arts at Johns Hopkins University, the Baltimore school whose graduate art history program Weiss attended and