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 You can remove yourself from the list at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe" link in the newsletter. ||||| Thomas P. Campbell resigned under pressure on Tuesday as the director and chief executive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, after months of growing concerns among staff members and some trustees about its financial health and his capacity to lead the largest museum in the country. 
 
 Met officials said that Mr. Campbell would stay on until June, the end of the fiscal year, but that Daniel H. Weiss, the Met’s president and chief operating officer, would be simultaneously serving as interim chief executive. Mr. Weiss will work with Mr. Campbell and the museum’s leadership on a transition plan while the Met seeks a new director, one of the most powerful in the art world. 
 
 “We are not looking to appoint a new director immediately,” said Daniel Brodsky, the museum’s chairman, in a letter to board and staff members, “but instead will take some time to consider the leadership needs of the museum in a thoughtful and deliberative way.” 
 
 The Met said that Mr. Campbell, 54, had made the decision to leave the job he had held for eight years. But the circumstances surrounding his departure point to his being forced out. As The New York Times reported extensively in an article in early February, Mr. Campbell’s financial decisions and expansion plans had been criticized by some trustees, curators and other staff members. During the last couple of years, despite the museum’s record attendance, much of his original agenda was rolled back because of the museum’s economic difficulties, including a soaring deficit.
– Thomas Campbell, the director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, resigned after eight years Tuesday "to pursue the next phase of my career," according to a statement. In reality, he appears to have been "forced out," reports the New York Times. With the museum in financial trouble—it recorded a $8.3 million deficit in the 2016 fiscal year, though officials had previously said a $40 million deficit was possible, per the Art Newspaper—Campbell has faced increasing pressure from staffers and trustees over his economic decisions. That pressure became insurmountable when board members, including the head of the Met's finance committee, demanded he leave his post in recent days, the Times reports. After coming into the role in January 2009, Campbell hired new digital staff and opened what is now the Met Breuer, which costs $17 million per year to operate, with approval from the board. But there were later buyouts and layoffs and Campbell was forced to abandon his plan to build a $600 million wing for modern and contemporary art-—despite record attendance at the largest museum in the US. However, the Met's chairman says Campbell has led the museum "in precisely the right direction." Campbell will stay on until June, but Daniel Weiss, the museum’s president and chief operating officer, will immediately become interim chief executive. Weiss may also become Campbell's permanent replacement, a trustee tells the Times.