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The facade of the elegant 19th century building on the Place Royale in Brussels says classical gallery, but then there are nods to Magritte's penchant for the absurd.

Their 2004 installation, The Empty Museum, replicates a room in a classical gallery, featuring a Bach soundtrack and deep red walls that are dramatically spot-lit.

Even I. M. Pei's famous 1978 East Building of the National Gallery, in Washington, D.C., arguably a forerunner of the current trend, succeeds mainly as a spectacular atrium; it does not provide convincing spaces for art, and its taut marble façade is even less relaxed than that of the sumptuous classical gallery beside it.

He used them as an inspiration in designing the 2007 Classical Galleries in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

"This is the grand orchestral coda to the reinstallation of our Classical galleries," Mr. de Montebello said late last week.

The classical galleries can be seen in a few hours, but taking in the modern exhibits and the sculpture garden as well can occupy the entire afternoon until closing time, 6 p.m. on weekdays and 8 p.m. on Saturdays.

When he finally saw it he called and said, 'This is the greatest.'" The museum, he says, "has classical galleries for artists that aren't alive, and exciting ones for those that can respond".

Vivid magenta, sky blue and a deep aquamarine are hardly colours that bring to mind the classical galleries of the Royal Academy in London, but for this year's Summer Exhibition – now in its 247th year – the bland white walls have been scrapped for an altogether jazzier colour scheme.

Its competitor Durand-Ruel had built a limestone gallery at 12 East 57th in 1913, and the controversial Joseph Duveen had put up a luscious French neo-Classical gallery at 56th and Fifth in 1912.

The neo-Classical galleries opened in 2007, and the period rooms and court reopened in 2009.

An intergenerational theme runs through the show, paralleling the relationship between the ancient and modern capital cities, and the Palazzo's neo-Classical galleries will offer a mix of established names and new blood.