B1 Beliefs B7 ARTS & IDEAS B9-20 Lincoln Center Manager Picked Rebecca Robertson, a city planner who led the government effort to redevelop West 42nd Street, will lead the arts center's $1.5 billion rebuilding project.
Dia also led the art gallery migration to West Chelsea from SoHo, which continues to this day.
Moreover, said Giovanni Nistri, who leads the art theft squad of the Italian military police, or carabinieri, such guidelines "depend on how ethics change over time".
It's this sort of prodigal hopefulness that led the art historian Benjamin Buchloh to accuse Beuys of "simple‑minded utopian drivel lacking elementary political and educational practicality".
Gen. Giovanni Nistri, who leads the art theft squad of the Italian national military police, said Mr. Eisenberg was unaware that the pieces had been looted, and when the Italian authorities showed him evidence, "he saw it was right to return them".
He had led the arts society since 1990.
He sought counsel from people schooled in the ways of Washington, like Jim Leach, the former Republican congressman, now chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Bill Ivey, who led the Arts Endowment under President Bill Clinton.
"The N.E.A. and N.E.H. need chairpersons, because they need people to be working with Congress, the White House and the public to build support," said Dana Gioia, the poet who led the arts endowment from 2002 to 2008.
Dr. Goldman led the arts center's real estate subsidiary for two and a half years after stepping down from his post as the arts center's chief executive in 2011, after 22 years; he will be succeeded by John Schreiber, the center's current president and chief executive.
Public pressure led the arts society to take down the painting.
