A Grand Gallery Rehang, Painting by Painting

The museum is reinstalling its most famous corridor in public view, one wall a week, with curators narrating the choices. The details, assembled from interviews and documents reviewed by The News Tribune, sketch a picture more textured than the headline suggests.

Critics are divided, which the organisers count as success. Indifference, one of them noted, is the only review that closes a show.

This looks small until you remember where we started.

What lingers, visitors say, is not any single object but the sense of being trusted — invited into the process rather than presented with its conclusion.

The wider picture

Whether the gamble pays off will take years to know. What is already clear is that someone was willing to make it.