But then look at him at the end of his two mayoral terms, on a 1973 cover of The New York Times Magazine blown up on a wall at the close of this exhibition.
We shouldn't be learning from a summary booklet at the close of the exhibition that Morgan, after raiding more than 6,500 homes and shops in Ohio and Indiana, was imprisoned by the Union and daringly escaped.
Included were two painters: Enrico David, a self-described surrealist who used a hard-edged style and disturbing commedia dell'arte characters, and Richard Wright, whose intricate patterns on existing architecture were often painted over at the close of an exhibition.
"I absolutely believe that the closing of this exhibition is the most important thing that has happened in Ukrainian contemporary art in quite some years," said Kateryna Botanova, the director of the Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, or C.C.A., in Kiev.
In addition, the show's highly popular tubular slide - which takes willing visitors in a few seconds from the fourth to the second floors and whose installation required cutting through concrete and steel - will remain open past the closing of the exhibition, until Jan . 22
Although insisting that he was not bending to public pressure, palace director Jean-Jacques Aillagon announced that the contemporary art program at Versailles would be temporarily suspended at the close of Murakami's exhibition.
In many ways, "Extreme Beauty" may be as close to an exhibition of contemporary art as clothing design gets.
Still, it rewards the kind of close study few exhibitions of famous French paintings afford.
Last month, a private gallery in Moscow closed an exhibition of an American photographer's work after a protester threw urine at the images.
A few months after it closed, an exhibition of Leonardo's anatomical drawings opened at the Queen's Gallery in London – but the excitement did not follow Leonardo across Green Park.
At the closing of Lasanaa's exhibition in April, about 100 people turned up.
