Things I Love: The Many Collections of William I. Koch (2005), displaying choice objects from Koch's many collections—from ancient Roman to contemporary American, including the contentious decision to exhibit two America's Cup yachts on the Huntington Avenue lawn. The Museum's program of national and international loan exhibitions (which had begun long before Rogers’ tenure and which provided valuable income for the museum) was expanded in Rogers’ time. Exhibitions, and sometimes individual masterpieces, traveled to Japan, South Korea, Italy, and Switzerland. It was, however, the Museum's venturing to Las Vegas (at the same time as the Hermitage Museum and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum had presences there) that aroused most controversy, and in particular the loan of 21 paintings by Monet to the Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, reportedly for a fee of $1 million. In 1999, in the process of creating departments of Art of the Americas and of European Art, which Rogers saw as a necessary unifying of the old divisions between paintings and decorative arts, and in preparation for the creation of the Art of the Americas Wing, the positions of two senior curators, Jonathan Leo Fairbanks (28 years tenure) and Anne Poulet (20 years tenure), were eliminated and the curators awarded Emeritus status. However, this rapidly became a ‘firing’ story in the media, and in academic circles was seen as an attack on tenure. Some MFA supporters were outraged. A number of art historians and staff at other art museums criticized Rogers' management style for featuring centralized decision-making (rather than individual curators retaining control over their fiefdoms) and for allegedly prioritizing financial stability over scholarship. Rogers, however, rejected these charges, saying that he was restructuring the organization, to bring paintings and decorative arts into closer conversation, as exemplified in the galleries of the new wing, and to bring overall directional focus to the MFA and not simply to centralize power. The distinguished scholar of American art, Theodore Stebbins (22 years tenure), resigned after serving for a short time as the first Chair of the new Americas department. He was succeeded by Elliot Bostwick Davis, formerly of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, who embraced the new structure, and undertook the huge Art of the Americas Wing project, and brought it to successful completion. During Rogers’ tenure, the issues of museum ownership of other nations’ cultural property and of Holocaust restitutions aroused considerable concern. In response, the MFA conducted