Putting the ‘national’ in the National Gallery: Kaywin Feldman wants the museum to serve the people

The director of America's art museum aims to listen to people whom museum directors don't always hear'

Donato Bramante's Tempietto in Rome. The Parthenon in Athens. Angkor Wat in Cambodia. The Barcelona pavilion in Spain. The Guggenheim museum in New York. And the White House in Washington.

All have been turned into architectural birthday cakes by Kaywin Feldman, director of the National Gallery of Art, as gifts for her architect husband. I'm not a cook so they're not pastry masterpieces," says the 55-year-old, who used carrots for the minarets of the Hagia Sophia mosque in Turkey. They sort of amuse me."