THE HOUSTON OFFICE TRADEOFF 
“I don’t know whether he gets to take those paintings with him, but it looks like he’s in for an upgrade in the office department,” notes a reader commenting on the back-of-house museum real estate awaiting newly announced MFAH director Gary Tinterow in Houston. For a spread in the New York Social Diary last year, photographer Jill Krementz took this snapshot of the curator in front of the neater of the 2 desks in his park-view office at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “The director’s office at MFAH doesn’t exactly look out on to Central Park, but it’s much bigger.” (It faces a walled-in garden space shielded from Montrose Blvd. traffic.) And Tinterow’s new salary may afford him the opportunity to upgrade from the IKEA floor lamp highlighted in Krementz’s office tour. “Also, fun fact,” notes our reader: “Late MFAH director Peter Marzio never had a computer. They were just kinda beneath him, I guess. The only thing on his huge desk was a red telephone. It looked like a White House War Room or something.” [Swamplot inbox; background] Photo: Jill Krementz
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“Photographer Jill Krementz took this snapshot of the curator for the New York Social Diary in front of the neater of his 2 desks in his park-view office at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last year.”
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Gary Tinterow is curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art although New York Social Diary could use a curator…
… or he is computer illiterate and having a computer would only expose his lack of ability… Soooo tired of people bragging about their non-use of technology. If you don’t use it, you are essentially grifting off your company.
@Matt Mystery: The “snapshot of the curator” was FOR the New York Social Diary.
Good grief “Stating the Obvious”…here: http://www.chron.com/default/article/Remembering-MFAH-Peter-Marzio-1690921.php
Look beyond the reader’s comment quoted here-it’s a little out of context. Beneath him because he was someone who was out there talking and working with people (in person! on the phone!) to better the museum.
Krementz doesn’t always hit the jackpot.
From Brad:
@Matt Mystery: The “snapshot of the curator†was FOR the New York Social Diary.
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I know that. Someone who isn’t paying attenton might not.
“Jill Krementz took this snapshot of the curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in front of the neater of his 2 desks in his park-view office.” Nice, clean, grammatically correct sentence. Who cares who she took the photo for?
@Matt Mystery & Brad: Fixed now. Thanks!