Complex sentence: Philippe de Montebello (born May 16,1936 in Paris) served from 1977 to 2008 as the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Split into simpler sentences: Philippe de Montebello (born May 16,1936 in Paris) is a museum director. He served from 1977 to 2008 as the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.