This summer, workers were busy in both the museum’s temporary exhibitions wing and its lobby, completing some long-deferred maintenance and making upgrades. First, workers removed the drywall in seven of the eight galleries in the wing. (The Alonzo and Vallye Dudley Gallery, which houses time-based media, has already been addressed). Some of the drywall dated back to when the building first opened on East Campus in 1996. Rivers pointed out that, given how frequently the museum changed out exhibitions in the past, some of those walls had hundreds of layers of paint on them. When there are that many layers of paint, new paint doesn’t adhere well to the wall anymore and past imperfections, however small, are often magnified.