There is no doubting his maturity, as well as his enthusiasm and his passion, when he talks about his feeling for art and his sense of responsibility to the institution he leads as well as to its millions of visitors.

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"There's been some speculation that the period really gives the feeling of something ending rather than beginning, " said Catherine Pages, an art director in Washington, D.

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All the same, his lifelong obsession with art remained undimmed right up until the end, and he complained of feeling restless and at a loose end on Mondays, the day New York galleries are closed.

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But museum fatigue from the brain-boggling volume of art, not to mention bumping elbows with hordes of other visitors, can sap that lovin' feeling.

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