“Pledging to increase its commitment to modern and contemporary art, the Metropolitan Museum is planning a major reorganization of its departments of European painting and modern art, it announced yesterday. Gary Tinterow, 50, the museum’s longtime curator of 19th-century European paintings, will run a new, expanded modern art department, which will include European paintings from 1800 to the present as well as international 20th-century sculpture, drawings, prints, decorative arts and design.”