Pursuits
Met Museum’s Rafferty Replaced by Two Mortals: Hoelterhoff
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Over the last ten years Emily K. Rafferty, the elegant, unflappable president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, kept the doors open on Fifth Avenue as the crowds grew to 6.3 million visitors and the occasional raccoon.
Retiring this week after 39 years at the Met, Rafferty, 66, says goodbye to some 1,500 employees, most of whom would probably like to drape the Fifth Avenue art palace in black.