malcolm glavwell's podcast about things overlooked and misunderstood. During his 31 year tenure as director of the metropolitan museum of art, philip de montebello guided the acquisition of more than 84 thousand works of art. Philip has been an incredible director for supporting the acquisitions of objects of great quality from across the globe. He even bought things he didn't want to buy.
Dragons hoard treasure, deep in their lairs. They don’t show it off to their neighbors. Revisionist History applies dragon psychology to the strange world of art museums, with help from Andy Warhol, J.R.R. Tolkien, a handful of accountants and the world’s leading hoarding expert.
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