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To: Buzz Lightbeer who wrote (323503)	11/26/2002 5:12:08 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

Yes, but they do not take very good care of them. They have these tall windows from the days when the museum was the central train station, and make no effort to control the amount of sunlight that streams down on the paintings. Climate control is inadequate, and they allow the galleries to humidify to appalling levels. Some of the hanging is which rhyme or reason: for example, a couple of Seurat (large pointillist canvases) are in a hallway, so that the only way you can view them properly is to nearly back into the painting on the opposite side. The galleries are small, so when a considerable number of people are in one, it becomes intolerably warm, humid, and noisy, even with whispering......