Several current and former employees, speaking on condition of anonymity, faulted Mr. Thompson for not consulting curators about his plans, even as he was publicly promising to spotlight the permanent collection of more than 250,000 objects.
"You put that one down to the players," said Rush, who has been a key figure behind the scenes at the club for years but continues to say he has no desire to take a permanent role in the spotlight.
Unknown to Ms. Schulweis, her show's television cameras were rolling again, thrusting her back into the national spotlight, but this time, a permanent co-star was by her side.
In fact, only half a dozen of the 50 or so works on view have entered the permanent collection in the past few years, which throws a spotlight on the loans noted in the exhibition title.
They would have probably kept our study in this permanent review process if it weren't for the media spotlight and veteran activism.
Their creators will have full control of their Spotlight pages, which the company is describing as a "permanent showcase" of their work.
Even as Japan is trying to raise its international stature as part of an effort to gain a permanent seat on an enlarged United Nations Security Council, its dispute with China, partly over history, has drawn an unwanted spotlight on its problematic past.
Spotlight on Conductor Thomas Wilkins, conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, is the final candidate for the post of permanent conductor of the Stamford Symphony Orchestra.
Increasingly, they also characterize the lives of corporate chief executives, who, in the glaring spotlight of the good governance movement, are finding their once-unquestioned authority giving way uncomfortably to the "permanent campaign".
