Klee Clarification

An important curator from a major big-city museum (not New York) wrote yesterday to take me to task for suggesting that the Klee Center in Bern should have allowed skylights in the galleries, even if it compromised the condition of the art.
Although skylights would have made Renzo Piano‘s achievement even more exciting, I never meant to suggest that architectural aesthetics should have trumped the requirements for protecting art. The fact that such a distinguished reader got that mistaken impression leads me to believe that perhaps I wasn’t sufficiently clear in my post.
What I did say was: “The requirements of the art took precedence over architectural aesthetics.” That (obviously, I hope) is a good thing.
Remember how I (perhaps) saved Mathew Brady‘s sunbathing Abraham Lincoln at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery?