{"id":41056,"date":"2025-11-21T21:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/41056\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T21:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T21:59:07","slug":"philadelphia-art-museum-names-daniel-weiss-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/41056\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Art Museum names Daniel Weiss new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? <a href=\"#Section1\">Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>Less than three weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-art-museum-fires-ceo-sasha-suda\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">firing its previous CEO Sasha Suda<\/a>, the Philadelphia Art Museum has named her successor. The new leader of the museum will be Daniel H. Weiss.\n<\/p>\n<p>Weiss is an art historian who was the CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art until he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/28\/arts\/design\/metropolitan-museum-daniel-weiss-max-hollein-president.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stepped down two years ago<\/a>. In that role, he mostly ran the business end of the Met, for which he is credited with stabilizing its finances.\n<\/p>\n<p>Leadership of the Met was split. Two other directors looked over programming and curatorial direction. In Philadelphia, Weiss will oversee all aspects of museum operations.\n  <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Art Museum board chair Ellen Caplan said Weiss\u2019 leadership track record made him \u201cideally suited to provide stability and strategic direction during this critical period for the art museum.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Weiss has ties to this region. Earlier in his career, he was president of Haverford College and Lafayette College.\n<\/p>\n<p>He begins his new role in Philadelphia on Dec. 1.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a privilege and an honor to serve during this important moment,\u201d Weiss said in a statement. \u201cI look forward to working with the Board, staff, and stakeholders to ensure the art museum continues its vital mission and advances its strategic priorities.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Suda, who was fired Nov. 4, has since <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/philadelphia-art-museum-sasha-suda-lawsuit-firing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filed a lawsuit against the museum board<\/a>.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16344,112,69,71,12634,70],"class_list":["post-41056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-art-museum-philly","tag-ceo","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-museum-of-art","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}