without a doubt,the GMB represents a major victory for krens; the tenous nature of several other high-profile,high-risk sattellite project threarened his own (and the Guggenheim's) credibility.These previous initiatives have so far failed to gel mainly because they just as often frighten off would-be backers as tempt daring enterpreneurs. Among such ventures,the earliest and best-known is MASS MOCA,Krens's scheme to convert a former textile-printing mill in North Adams, Mass, into the world's largest museum of contemporary art (Krebs conceived Mass MOCA in the mid-1980s while still director Williams College Museum of Art ).MASS COCA kunguished after Republican government