This month the MuseumsQuartier opened new space for shops, studios and cultural agencies' offices.

They were among many cultural agencies that are in much better financial shape today than some had feared a year ago.

One source of tension was the increasing attention she and Ms. Cruz began to receive from foreign academics, international women's groups and cultural agencies.

Nor is there a decency panel in sight at the cultural agencies that support these companies.

Without a recommendation from the committee to change the law, the cultural agency is expected to drop the matter, at least for now.

It will also be the first time the city's cultural agency has been anywhere close to City Hall.

Russia's cultural agency ordered the country's museums to call off any future loans to Switzerland.

"We don't consider this to be a loss yet," said Linda Blumberg, assistant commissioner of the cultural agency.

It oversaw program and financial liaison with the ministry's twelve cultural and two library agencies.

"Every artist, every cultural agency at some time or another has asked Marty Segal for help."