But according to the Paris daily Le Monde, museum administrators and the French Senate, which controls the museum building, have quarreled over administrative and financial issues, and the Senate has decided to reassert its control.
The museum's administrative building is formerly the home of a 19-century black-powder warehouse, and Mr. Neill's discourse can, at times, be explosive.
But instead of sitting behind a closed door in the museum's administrative wing, Mr. de Guzman is on display to the public as he works at his desk alongside the art displays.
Mrs. Manoog, the museum's administrative director, points with pride to the spigot in the museum's entryway that once controlled the flow of water through a wooden main installed under Boston in the mid-17th century.
There's also a new 37,000-square-foot annex by Luis Guti ez, which houses the museum's administrative offices -- thus nearly doubling the exhibition space of the original building, where 800 works are on display today.
Its global headquarters a vast complex that includes a temple, a huge tabernacle, a genealogical library, a museum, an administrative complex and an apartment for the Prophet has long protected downtown Salt Lake from the urban blight that is commonplace elsewhere.
David Galligan, the museum's administrative director, said the Walker initiated a commission system in 1995, when federal money for the arts had been cut and other sources of money also dried up.
It is all very different from 1990, when Glasgow claimed the City of Culture title on the basis of its museums and administrative expertise.
Still other museums or administrative organs provide access to databases on collections for instance, the Joconde database, maintained by the French Ministry of Culture, from which information can be obtained on important works of art held by more than 60 French museums.
I met with Armstrong at the museum's Hudson Street administrative offices, on the day of the last board meeting with the activists.
