An obvious answer to the museum's crisis of purpose was to expand outwards from its renowned collection of modern painting and sculpture into ever more areas of art, liberally defined, including architecture and commercial design.

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In his eyes, Greenberg was a moralist in art who laid down rules about how a proper modern painting should look: as abstract and flatly painted as possible.

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The drawings on view at Schloss Moyland are key to understanding the artist, says Ann Temkin, chief curator of painting and sculpture at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

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But as government-funded art centers sprang up, giving access to modern materials, the work moved away from dot painting and became more experimental -- incorporating brighter colors and a more painterly form.

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Postindependence Indian painting is also having a bit of a market moment, says Deepanjana Klein, a modern and contemporary Indian art specialist at Christie's New York.

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