It's down to the finalists, friends, in the informal tourney for a new architecture curator at MoMA. And informal it is: our ever so well-placed mole revealed last night—without even the coercion of a single drink—that there is no formal search committee in place, just Peter Reed and Glen Lowry and the ghost of curators past, ruminating, fulminating, wondering if they too can get a sinecure in Miami. Strangely, none of our original picks made the final cut, though Bob Stern was consulted, Aaron Betsky considered (for a Nieue Amsterdam minute), and—we meant to have her on our list—Karen Stein, publishing honcho, was "bandied around." It's fun to quote anonymous sources! But more fun still to cut to the chase: it's gonna be Jean-Louis Cohen, brilliant scholar, or Ray Ryan, ketchup kurator, about whom we know nothing but hear good things. Boring. Too bad Herbert's late-breaking attempt to impress the judges fell so flat.

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