There are advantages and disadvantages for the visiting public when art museums mount temporary exhibitions. This slide show accompanies a paper of the same name available for view on www.deborahfeller.com. Click on "Art Historian."

1. The Long and Short of Displaying Art:
Permanent Collections
And
Temporary Exhibitions
© Deborah Feller
April 1, 2017

2. Figure 1: Line to enter Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition, 1977, Field Museum,
Chicago.

3. Figure 2: Lehman wing during Manus & Machina
exhibition—old masters paintings in background on left.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo © D. Feller.
Figure 3: Lehman wing during Manus & Machina exhibition—
viewers worshipping fashion. Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York.
Photo © D. Feller.

4. Figures 4 and 5: Asian Art galleries during China: Through the Looking Glass exhibition--eclipsing the art.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo courtesy of the museum.

5. Figure 11: Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond Caravaggio,
2016. Title gallery view with The Lute Player on the
right. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by
Corrado Serra for Arts Summary.
Figure 9: Valentin de Boulogne, The Lute
Player, in Painting Music in the Age of
Caravaggio, 2015. Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York. Photo by Allison Meier for
Hyperallergic.
Figure 6: Valentin de Boulogne,
The Lute Player, ca. 1625-26.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York.
Figure 10: Valentin de Boulogne: Beyond
Caravaggio, 2016. Title gallery view with Jusepe
de Ribera's Denial of Saint Peter. Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Corrado Serra
for Arts Summary.
Figure 7: Caravaggio Gallery. Metropolitan
Museum of Art. Photo © D. Feller.
Figure 8: Poussin Gallery. Metropolitan Museum
of Art. Photo © D. Feller.

6. Figure 12: Leon Levy and Shelby White Court, Greek and Roman
galleries, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Figure 13: Greek and Roman galleries,
central corridor. Metropolitan Museum
of Art.

7. Figure 14: View of the Crypt Gallery for Byzantine Art of Egypt, under the
Great Staircase, showing underside of stairs on right. Metropolitan Museum of
Art.
Figure 15: Crypt Gallery for
Byzantine Art of Egypt, under the
Great Staircase. Metropolitan
Museum of Art.

8. Figure 16: Moroccan craftsman working on
arch for new galleries of Art of the Arab
Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later
South Asia. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Figure 17: Moroccan Court of galleries of Art
of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia,
and Later South Asia. Metropolitan Museum of
Art.

9. Figure 18: Nineteenth-Century European
Paintings galleries (1979), Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
Figure 19: Nineteenth-Century European
Paintings galleries (1993). Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
Figure 20: Nineteenth-Century European
Sculpture galleries (1993). Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
Figure 21: Nineteenth-Century European Paintings galleries
(2007), Metropolitan Museum of Art.

10. Figure 22: Publicity photo, Ribera, Maestro del dibujo. Museo
Nacional del Prado. November 22, 2016 – February 19, 2017.
Figure 23: Long view into final gallery, Between
Heaven and Hell: The Drawings of Jusepe de Ribera.
The Meadows Museum, March 12 - June 11, 2017.
Photo © D. Feller
Figure 24: View of final gallery, Between
Heaven and Hell: The Drawings of Jusepe de
Ribera. The Meadows Museum. Photo © D.
Feller.

11. Figure 24: Jusepe de Ribera, Apollo and Marsyas (1637,
pen and brown ink, 4 x 4f in. [10 x 12.4 cm]). Istituto
Centrale per la Grafica, Rome.
Figure 25: Jusepe de Ribera, Apollo and Marsyas (1637, oil on canvas, 6 x 7b ft. [182 x 232 cm]).
Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples.
Figure 24: Relative in
size to painting.