Peter C. Marzio, director of the Houston museum, said he was comfortable with the collaboration.
It features the veteran folksinger and her famed voice, which age has worn into a more comfortable thing, in collaboration with Steve Earle, who produced the album and contributed three songs.
She says that years of working with illustrators has made her comfortable with such collaborations.
Few doubt that the real action is around markets and competition, with only a handful of establishment thinktanks touting the view that competition and collaboration make comfortable bedfellows.
Collaboration is comfortable territory for Mr. Raichel.
David V. Goeddel, chief executive of Tularik, said his company was not looking to be acquired but became comfortable with Amgen during the cancer collaboration.
There's no reason for all this collaboration to be happy or comfortable.
The restaurant lost a star in the Dining section of The New York Times, going from two to one, with the critic William Grimes writing that the couple's collaboration was "more like a comfortable compromise than an exciting new departure".
But there is increasing evidence that collaboration works best when staff are comfortable building relationships and taking decisions outside formal structures.
Clients aren't rushed in and out with some kind of identi-cut; appointments proceed at a speed with which the client is comfortable and the styling process is defined by collaboration.
