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Neil MacGregor Net Worth
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Total Net Worth at the moment 2024 year – is about $236,6 Million.
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Neil MacGregor information Birth date: 1946-06-16 Birth place: Glasgow, Scotland Parents:Alexander MacGregor, Anna MacGregor
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How tall is Neil MacGregor – 1,76m.
How much weight is Neil MacGregor – 71kg
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Robert Neil MacGregor, Template:Post-nominals (born 16 June 1946) is a British art historian and museum director. He was the Editor of the Burlington Magazine from 1981 to 1987, the Director of the National Gallery, London, from 1987 to 2002, and was appointed Director of the British Museum in 2002. He has presented three television series on art and the BBC Radio 4 series A History of the World in 100 Objects, which aired in 2010 and later became a bestselling book.
Biography,Neil MacGregor was born in Glasgow to two doctors, Alexander and Anna MacGregor. At the age of nine, he first saw Salvador Dalis Christ of Saint John of the Cross, newly acquired by Glasgows Kelvingrove Art Gallery, which had a profound effect on him and sparked his lifelong interest in art. MacGregor was educated at Glasgow Academy and then read modern languages at New College, Oxford, where he is now an honorary fellow.The period that followed was spent studying philosophy at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris (coinciding with the events of May 1968), and as a law student at Edinburgh University, where he received the Green Prize. Despite being called to the bar in 1972, MacGregor next decided to take an art history degree. The following year, on a Courtauld Institute (University of London) summer school in Bavaria, the Courtaulds director Anthony Blunt spotted MacGregor and persuaded him to take a masters degree under his supervision. Blunt later considered MacGregor the most brilliant pupil he ever taught.From 1975 to 1981, MacGregor taught History of Art and Architecture at the University of Reading. He left to assume the editorship of The Burlington Magazine. He oversaw the transfer of the magazine from the Thomson Corporation to an independent and charitable status.Directorship of the National GalleryIn 1987 MacGregor became a highly successful director of the National Gallery in London. There he was dubbed Saint Neil, partly because of his popularity at that institution and partly because of his devout Christianity. During his directorship, MacGregor presented three BBC television series on art: Painting the World in 1995, Making Masterpieces, a behind-the-scenes tour of the National Gallery, in 1997 and Seeing Salvation, on the representation of Jesus in western art, in 2000. He declined the offer of a knighthood in 1999, the first director of the National Gallery to do so.Directorship of the British MuseumMacGregor was made director of the British Museum in August 2002, at a time when that institution was ?5 million in deficit. He has been lauded for his diplomatic approach to the post, though MacGregor rejects this description, stating that diplomat is conventionally taken to mean the promotion of the interests of a particular state and that is not what we are about at all.Holding his office during a period which has seen the Acropolis Museum constructed in Athens, he has consistently argued against returning the British Museums sculptures from the Parthenon (the Elgin Marbles) to Greece. He has stated that it is the British Museums duty to preserve the universality of the marbles, and to protect them from being appropriated as a nationalistic political symbol and that there is no legal system in Europe that would challenge the [British Museums] legal title to the works.In January 2008, MacGregor was appointed chairman of the World Collections programme, for training international curators at British museums. The exhibition The First Emperor, focussing on Qin Shi Huang and including a small number of his Terracotta Warriors, was mounted in 2008 in the British Museum Reading Room. That year MacGregor was invited to succeed Philippe de Montebello as the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He declined the offer as the Metropolitan charges its visitors for entry and is thus not a public institution.His tenure included many exhibitions that were more provocative than the museum had previously done or told stories from unique perspectives that were notably less Eurocentric than previous exhibits, including a project celebrating the Hajj. He similarly made comments that sparked debate, such as his claim that the ancient Persian empire was greater than Ancient Greece.In 2010, MacGregor presented a series on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service entitled A History of the World in 100 Objects, based on objects from the British Museums collection.From September 2010 to January 2011 the British Museum lent the ancient Persian Cyrus Cylinder to an exhibition in Tehran. This was seen by at least a million visitors by the Museums estimation, more than any loan exhibition to the United Kingdom had attracted since the Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition in 1972.[11]As of 2015, MacGregor was paid a salary of between ?190,000 and ?194,999 by the British Museum, making him one of the 328 most highly paid people in the British public sector at that time.[12] MacGregor retired from the post in December 2015 and was succeeded in Spring 2016 by Hartwig Fischer, director of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.[13]
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