The Met’s Problem Was Always Bigger Than John Galliano

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s announcement this week that it is canceling next year’s exhibition on the fashion of John Galliano perhaps shouldn’t have come as a surprise. From the start, Galliano was a controversial pick for the museum’s Costume Institute, which launches its new show each year with the splashy Met Gala. In 2011, he lost his job as creative director of Dior after a video surfaced of him making a drunken anti-Semitic rant; later that year, a French court found him guilty of…