Designer labels: Metropolitan Museum ancient Near Eastern art curators Elisabetta Valtz Fino (left) and Joan Aruz Addressing the press at the Metropolitan Museum, the final U.S. venue for Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul (to Sept. 20), Fredrik Hiebert , curator for the National Geographic Society, the show’s co-organizer, caused me to do a double-take when he unequivocally described the Met’s staffers as “the best people we have worked with in the museum world.”