Inc. All rights reserved. Under an unrelenting midday sun, the pink two-story building that houses the Carone Gallery seems to glow. Inside, it is twilight.
Track lights shine like stars on the horizon, throwing shadows on the paintings' dusky tones.
Matthew Carone leans back in his chair and sighs. Above a furrowed brow tanned nut-brown, his hair is bright white, a contrast that suggests a contented mixture of leisure and success. The Carone Gallery is one of the two venues for this year's show, which opens May 19, but if the place's owner had his way, the Hortt would never have left the museum. It's a terrible mistake. When Harleman, who joined the museum in 1998, pulled the plug on the Hortt last summer, it signaled the end of an era.