from boton to lo angele, from new york city to chicago to dalla, mueum are either planning, building, or wrapping up wholeale epanion program. thee program already have radically altered facade and floor plan or are epected to do o in the not-too-ditant future.
in new york city alone, i major intitution have pread up and out into the air pace and neighborhood around them or are preparing to do o.
the reaon for thi confluence of activity are comple, but one factor i a conideration everywhere - pace. with collection epanding, with the need and function of mueum changing, empty pace ha become a very preciou commodity.
probably nowhere in the country i thi more true than at the philadelphia mueum of art, which ha needed additional pace for decade and which received it lat ignificant facelift ten year ago. becaue of the pace crunch, the art mueum ha become increaingly cautiou in conidering acquiition and donation of art, in ome cae paing up opportunitie to trengthen it collection.
deacceing - or elling off - work of art ha taken on new importance becaue of the mueum＇ pace problem. and increaingly, curator have been forced to juggle gallery pace, rotating one materpiece into public view while another i ent to torage.
depite the clear need for additional gallery and torage pace, however," the mueum ha no plan, no plan to break out of it envelope in the net fifteen year," according to philadelphia mueum of art＇ preident.由好作网www.hAOzuowEn.com整理