"Picture Gallery in Transformation is a semi-permanent collection display. The return of Lina Bo Bardi's radical crystal easels to the display of the collection presents a selection of 119 artworks drawn from the museum's diverse holdings, spanning from the 4th century BC to 2008. The easels were first presented at the opening of the museum's current venue in 1968, and withdrawn in 1996. The return of the easels is not a fetishistic or nostalgic gesture in regard to what has become an iconic exhibition display device, but should rather be understood as part of a programmatic revision of Bo Bardi's spatial and conceptual contributions to museum practice. In the original configuration of the easels, Lina Bo Bardi and Pietro Maria Bardi organized the works by artistic schools or regions. Now they will be placed in strict chronological order, laid out in a meandering path."--MASP website, viewed August 17, 2016.