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antiquities from Boston's Museum of Fine Arts in a three-way deal that =
sent
an undisclosed fee to Boston from the Dallas-based Marcus Foundation.

Peripatetic Picassos

In a variation on that theme, the Museum of Modern Art in New York put =
90
Picassos on the road in 1998 and 1999. "Picasso: Masterworks From the =
Museum
of Modern Art" went to the High Museum, the National Gallery of Canada =
in
Ottawa and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, giving MoMA roughly $1
million per stop. The cash-strapped Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa., =
sent
the best of its collection on a fund-raising mission in 1993, despite =
the
indenture of founder Albert C. Barnes, which prohibited the art from =
leaving
the premises or changing positions in his idiosyncratic displays.

In other cases, museums mobilize large groups of artworks in traveling
exhibitions to raise money and reduce storage costs while their =
facilities
are under renovation. That was the motivation for the two-year =
exhibition,
"Renaissance to Rococo: Masterpieces From the Collection of the =
Wadsworth
Atheneum Museum of Art," a show from the nation's oldest art museum, in
Hartford, Conn., which appeared at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art this =
past
spring.

When museums make individual loans, they may not ask for direct payment =
from
the borrower, especially if the museums cooperate frequently. But there =
are
other ways to reciprocate.

The Getty's conservation lab has been at work since March on a pair of
Tunisian mosaics that will be among 27 to be shown beginning in October.
Getty spokesman John Giurini said the extensive conservation work was =
built
into the loan agreement with Tunisia's national museum system.