"The Harvesters" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Thomas Campbell's favourite work in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Campbell is the museum's recently appointed director and only the ninth in its 139-year history.

Read more about Campbell in a dishy profile (well, as dishy as pieces get when you're writing about a guy whose passion is 15th century tapestries) by Rebecca Mead in this week's issue of the New Yorker