7 pillars of wisdom from Neil MacGregor

He’s led London’s National Gallery, the British Museum and Berlin’s Humboldt Forum. Neil MacGregor is in Australia and shared his wisdom with us.

16 May 2019 12:00

Gina Fairley

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Art historian and museum director Neil MacGregor in conversation. Photo Heike Huslage-Koch via Wikimedia.

In 1999 Neil MacGregor refused a knighthood making him the first director of London’s iconic National Gallery to do so.

Nearly a decade later, in 2008 he turned down a job as Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York because it didn’t offer free admission to the public.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina