He admitted visitors in his lifetime, but barred the door in "wet or dirty weather".
First Night buttons admitting visitors to all events are $10 for adults, $1 for children under 15.
When Maxxi was proposed it had to sit a kilometre outside the Flaminian Gate that has admitted visitors to Rome for more than 2,000 years.
Upstairs, a secretary barred the way to Mr. Radovanovic's office, forcing him to come out of a side door and personally admit visitors.
The trust plans to begin admitting visitors to the Glass House, and to several other buildings on the property, next April.
Black-clad guards patrolling the perimeter calmly admitted visitors, and Mr. Bakiyev granted an interview to a reporter in a large traditional Kyrgyz yurt, or tent, that was set up outside his family's home.
For this show she erected a blue wall across the gallery space with a door admitting visitors into a room filled with 80 used Christmas trees taken from the streets of New York.
A HIT IN BERLIN -- Masterpieces from the Museum of Modern Art have proved such a hit in Berlin that the New National Gallery said yesterday it would keep its doors open an additional 24 hours a week, admitting visitors until 2 a.m. on weekends.
Mr. Bloom, who acknowledged that his paintings of rabbis were, intentionally or not, self-portraits, rarely admitted visitors to his studio, and when he did he turned any paintings in progress to the wall, as if unwilling to let imperfect work be seen.
The arrival of a group of British sailors one day in 1981, looking for the source of the sounds they loved, gave her the notion of turning the house into a museum, and she began the process by sticking photographs, posters and album sleeves on the walls, and admitting visitors on Fridays.
