Max Hollein, the chief executive and director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, spoke at a celebratory dinner for the reopening of the museum’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing on Friday.

In 1866, a group of New York’s finest decided that their fair city needed a museum. It would be a big museum. An important museum. A “national” museum that would bring great art and art ...

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