Ms. d'Harnoncourt also oversaw the reinstallation of the museum's European collections, the renovation of 20 of its galleries of modern and contemporary art and the acquisition of a nearby Art Deco building, which opened in September, to help solve the museum's growing space problems.
The Cleveland Museum's coming sale, for example, was prompted in part by the reinstallation of its collection after a renovation.
Two summers ago over a glass of wine in a bistro in the Schöneberg district of Berlin, Mr. Lowry told Peter Raue, chairman of Friends of the Neue Nationalgalerie, of his plan to lease a traveling show of the Modern's collection during the renovation.
Mr. Cohler said that after using all of his savings and selling pieces from his own art collection to finance the renovation, he cannot afford to live in the house.
She takes over at a pivotal time for the Getty, which last year reopened the villa, the faux-Roman home for its renowned antiquities collection, after a $275 million renovation and reinstallation that Ms. True and Ms. Wight helped oversee.
In 2003, he oversaw the renovation of the Scaife Galleries, home to the Carnegie's permanent collection as well as the renovation of the Heinz Architectural Center in 2000.
The Petit Palais Art Museum, known for its Impressionist collection, will be closed for renovation until spring.
During that time, the Smithsonian funneled about $100 million into the expansion and renovation of museum collection space.
The collection was restored during the renovation.
In her new collection, Oates may be interested in renovations more than innovations, but readers will find plenty of ambiguity and strangeness to celebrate.
