New public spaces will serve as what the museum calls connectors.

In turn, museums can call on the public.

The museum had called to inform them that they could no longer hold Claudia's position for her.

Some of our board members would say, 'Don't call it a museum.

The museum calls it "the most comprehensive exhibition ever mounted on the subject."

The museum called it "one of the most perfect forms of indigenous art we have purchased this century."

One art lawyer, who insisted on anonymity, said that "museums are calling to ask if this could be true."

A museum, he feels, calls for a special type of programming.

Completion of this plan, which the museum calls Phase I, will increase exhibition space by 27 percent, to 677,000 square feet.

Then we headed eagerly to the fourth floor to what the museum calls "Chagall's studio."