The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s director, Peter Marzio, is 10th on the NY Times’ list of best-paid leaders of cultural institutions in the US. According to the Times, Marzio was paid $940,138 in the calendar year 2009, putting him ahead of the directors of the Met (the art museum, not the opera, whose director Peter Gelb will score $1,345,00 this year), Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, The Whitney, and the New Museum, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art.
