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Preference will be given to letters less than 200 words. Mr. Brown spoke from wisdom and relevant experience, addressing his well-reasoned remarks, in part, sympathetically to museum colleagues. He was at the helm of the National Gallery when I.M. Pei's East Wing annex was planned and built. Over the last 25 years, Mr. Brown has also had oversight responsibility for development within historic Georgetown, an area he compared to Savannah's Historic District. Particularly interesting, in my view, was Mr. Brown's focus on Bilbao, the remarkable museum designed by Frank Geary in a depressed industrial zone on the Basque coast of Spain.