What's in the box? The Met Breuer opens new possibilities in a dramatic art space

NEW YORK --When the elevator doors open and you find yourself on the third floor of what was until recently the Whitney Museum, you are confronted by wall-to-wall Renaissance masters. Giant paintings by Jacopo Bassano and Titian, including the latter's "The Agony in the Garden" and "The Flaying of Marsyas," loom before you, and it feels like that disorienting moment when you wake up confused in a strange hotel room. Didn't all of this used to look different?