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The article focuses on the trends and activities of various art institutions in the U.S. in 2012. It says that Metropolitan Museum of Art (MoMA) remains silent over its plans for the Whitney's Breuer Building. It discusses various art shows in 2012 including shows featuring the works of Richard Artschwager and Yayoi Kusama at the Whitney Museum, the "Joseph Albers in America: Painting on Paper" exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, and the "Tokyo 1955-1970: A New Avant-Garde" show at MoMA.

In hundreds of exhibitions over the last three decades the names of a stunning number of curators and artists have entered the institutional memory of the Museum of Modern Art. But behind nearly all of these shows there has been a constant, a man whose name rarely surfaces anywhere except in invoices. It seems somehow appropriate, then, to find Jerome Neuner, the director of the museum's department of exhibition design and production, in a windowless office below street level, down an anonymous industrial hallway. The tables around him are covered by yards of scroll-like paper that look like something a medieval copyist might pore over. But these are computer-printed scrolls, precise, color-coded schedules that keep Mr. Neuner apprised of every important date involving the shows now happening or about to happen throughout the 125,000 square feet of gallery space above his head, 40,000 more square feet than he had to worry about before the museum's expansion was completed in 2004. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]