Rebecca Mead, writing in The New Yorker about the new director of the Met, Thomas Campbell, describes some of the cutbacks necessary during these difficult times:
"Barabara Fleischman, the chairman of the visiting committee of the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture ... told me about a fund-raising lunch that was held for the ongoing renovation of the galleries. "We sat at tables with no real tablecloths, and there were these tins - like workers' lunch pails - each containing a sandwich and a cookie and a fruit cup," she recalled. "It was darling."
