Philippe de Montebello's Rendez-vous With Art
Philippe de Montebello is the longest-serving director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His retirement in 2008 wasn't only the end of his 31-year tenure, it was seen as an end of an era at the venerable institution, too. His new book, "Rendez-vous With Art," co-written with art critic Martin Gayford, is a series of conversations between the curator and the critic inside museums around the world"part travel memoir, …