The Brooklyn Museum is projecting a new face to the world. “Arnold L. Lehman, the museum’s waggish, enterprising director, is emphatic about wanting to ‘open the museum up.’ He’s trying to make it more like a town square than a temple. This sounds beneficent. But remember, nowadays everywhere you go is like a town square; a museum has the singular, sometimes transporting virtue of being a place where you can leave the group and immerse yourself in the richness and mystery of the group mind. Nevertheless, to those who might think his ideas are faulty, Lehman bluntly replies, ‘I don’t care.’ Under his leadership, the museum has increased attendance and reinstalled the collection in showily painted spaces. Sometimes the results are illuminating, other times infuriating.”