Certainly, it is not uncommon for a museum to accommodate an important loan exhibition in this manner.

Museums, after all, don't want to jeopardize the loan exhibitions on which they have come to rely.

The new museum will present two shows a year from Boston as well as one five-year loan exhibition.

"I can't tell you how many times since then both pieces have been requested for loan exhibitions," Monkhouse says.

Rather than collect, this museum has put its energy into organizing loan exhibitions of dazzling quality and range.

More goes on in loan exhibitions than meets the public eye.

The show also features a loan exhibition of 38 idiosyncratic chairs, many made in Philadelphia.

I can't remember the last time the city's large art museums simultaneously had such extravagant loan exhibitions.

But that's the minimum function of any loan exhibition.

I don't see the future for these massive international loan exhibitions.