In an environment where expenditure is being closely controlled, exhibitions are continuing to increase their overall share of marketing budgets".
Mr. Hirschfeld said that Ms. Feiden had threatened to sue the museum if the show proceeded, making "an unwarranted and gratuitous intrusion into my right to control exhibitions and reproductions of my own artwork".
"I have exclusive right to control the exhibition of Mr. Hirschfeld's work," she said.
Instead of going to court, the two longtime partners have signed another contract that gives Ms. Feiden and her Madison Avenue gallery the rights to sell and license Mr. Hirschfeld's drawings, while Mr. Hirschfeld, now 97, will control the exhibition of his work in museums.
Galleries on the first, second and third floors of the Museum's South Wing now include modern, climate-controlled exhibition spaces that meet current conservation standards.
With the opening of the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, or MoDA, in north London on Oct. 17, the fragrant idea of home sweet home has become the subject of humidity-controlled exhibition.
In recent years the indoor environment in the exhibition rooms has been hygrostatically controlled by a floor heating system.
By May 1862, "occupied New Orleans," as the exhibition puts it, was under martial law, controlled by Maj.
But for high-security exhibitions, where gallery access must be strictly controlled, policing can be a problem.
In a world where, increasingly, everything is designed, these two rich exhibitions remind us that not everything can be controlled.
Years ago, there was a monopoly-busting Justice Department decree that forced major movie studios, which used to control distribution, production and exhibition, to sell off the theaters.
