Article: Museum calibre. (new galleries for the Linsky Collection in New York's Metropolitan Museum)

Restoring the old interior and carefully adapting it for new functions have become commonplace tasks for the designer. Creating a venerable-seeming environment from scratch is something else. At least, as in this case, when the new work is not the usual blend of old and new, not just a fashionable reference to the past, not a clever historic allusion, but as close as possible to the genuine article. This complex of seven galleries houses the Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, a recent gift to the Metropolitan Museum by Mrs. Linsky. It is the accomplishment of a collaborating trio of architects and designers: Arthur Rosenblatt, the museum's vice-president for ...

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