The differences emerged today when Horst Kohler, the I.M.F.'s new managing director, chided Group of Seven finance ministers for announcing their desire to charge more for loans instead of working within the fund to build consensus on the issue.
K-V will utilize the proceeds of the loan for working capital and general operating purposes.
Her first priority in Houston will be to help secure acquisitions and loans of works from the Islamic world.
The museum will receive loans of "works of art of great significance and cultural importance," the statement said.
In November, Mr. de Montebello met in Rome with Rocco Buttiglione, Italy's culture minister, and proposed the idea of some returns in exchange for loans of work of "equivalent beauty and importance".
His interests and collecting extended to a broad range of art, including European paintings and Greek and Roman art, and over the years his benevolence toward the Met touched those and many other areas in significant ways, from important gifts and loans of works of art to support for exhibitions, acquisitions, curatorships, gallery renovations, and other activities.
In other long-term loans of works from the Met's storage areas, 15 pieces of armor — swords, helmets, gauntlets— are currently at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and 212 casts, primarily Greek and Roman, are at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University in Atlanta.
Few receive major loans of works from abroad because of financial constraints, substandard facilities, and security issues, and they tend to present mainly regional art and traditional crafts.
Pressed to address the problem, Congress enacted a law in 2004 offering to repay the student loans of veterinarians working in underserved areas, but it has received little financing.
Detroit is also seeking additional loans in the form of working capital.
Payday loans are a clear exploitation of working people who face double- or triple-digit interest rates for short-term loans.
