A Gift to the Viewer: Reconfigured Galleries Offer a Bold Experience

It's better to contemplate a work of art with wonder than certainty. It's better to explore and discover. That's the philosophy Howard Collinson expressed two years ago when he took the job as director of the University of Iowa Museum of Art. When he opened the doors to the public after closing the museum for a month in the summer of 2001, Collinson invited visitors to explore and discover a bold, new look for galleries that had remained unchanged for three decades...

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