1.   Also featured are Perugino works on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and other American museums.

2.   American museums have begun to snap up bargains in Soviet-era Lenin statues.

3.   American museums would do well to negotiate with owners of hallmark interiors before they disappear.

4.   American museums including the MFA have, at least in the past, also neglected the new.

5.   American museums tend to look increasingly alike.

6.   An exhibition of treasures from the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul will travel to three American museums next year.

7.   American museums with large acquisitions budgets are active buyers both here and abroad.

8.   And American museums are private not-for-profit already.

9.   As in most American museums, a majority of them were acquired in the last three months when donors began to anticipate the significant tax deductions for their gifts.

10.   But they tend to be overshadowed in most major American museums by Japanese, and especially Chinese, art.