The Disneyfication of museums, as detractors call it, is hotly debated in museum circles.
News of the auction in March 2002 began circulating in book-dealing and Jewish museum circles.
But when Mr. MacGregor succeeded Robert Anderson last fall, no one in museum circles underestimated the challenge he faced.
Until his death in March, Richard S. Zeisler kept such a low profile that few people in the art world beyond museum circles knew his name.
He targeted Ms True.She was an unlikely villain, since she was at the time making a stir in American museum circles by demanding a significant change to acquisition policies.
I don't think it should, but who knows?" The expectation in museum circles, however, is that if no major new private contribution turns up in the next few weeks, the museum trustees will abandon the Spiral in September.
Ms. Giménez possesses the sharpest of eyes, and clout in museum circles, and between her and Mr. Calvo Serraller, it was possible to wrangle dozens of Goyas and Velázquezes and Zurbaráns and El Grecos and Riberas and Dalís and Picassos — many famous, many not.
A fabulous hoard of Chinese antiquities salvaged from shipwrecks in the South China Sea is causing a terrific stir among collecting and museum circles.
The museum galleries circle the statue's base, displaying gruesome and heroic relics — gloves and soap made from concentration camp victims, captured weapons and banners — and detailing the epic toll the war took on Ukraine.
Guests included Diane Keaton, Kelly Lynch, Oliver Furth, Julian Sands and his wife, Evgenia Citkowitz, along with members of the museums Directors Circle- including Will Ferrell and his wife, Viveca Paulin-Ferrell, who served as the evening's MC.
The last decade has seen a reversal of attitudes about architecture of the 50's and 60's -- even buildings like the old Huntington Hartford museum on Columbus Circle have attracted preservation support, especially from younger people, who were not around when the buildings were new.
