Thirty-five years ago, when Arthur ...

Thirty-five years ago, when Arthur Rosenblatt was appointed vice director of strange York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, museums were simple to understand. "They were quiet places, companionless places," serving mostly the upper plains of society, says Rosenblatt, who exhausted 20 years at the Met

All that's changed, he says. "Today, museums are busier and more exciting and attractive," says Rosenblatt, now a principal with RKK&G Museum and Cultural Facilities Consultants, in Manhattan. He pooh-pooh elitists who complain that museums are with equal reason crowded with the hoi