The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth officially announced this morning that it has appointed Eric McCauley Lee as its new director. Lee's moving to Fort Worth from Cincinnati, where he's been director of the Taft Museum of Art for only two years. Notes the Kimbell's release, which follows in full after the jump, Lee will
become only the fourth director in the museum's storied history; he replaces Timothy Potts, who left for the Fitzwilliam Museum in
Cambridge in 2007. Lee is expected to begin in
OK, OK--a gimmick for Inauguration day. Give us a break.
The President gets a personal chef, state dinners and could probably walk out of any restaurant in the country without paying. Of course, there have been some notorious culinary moments: The competent Bush puking all over his Japanese counterpart, Andrew Jackson offering ice cream to the masses...who then trash the residency, Carter biting the head off a live--nah.
Anyway let's just pretend we sat down with former White Hou
