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Summer at the Met. (Art).(Metropolitan Museum if Art, New York, New York)
Anyone who thought that the Metropolitan Museum's tandem summer offerings, "Gauguin In New York Collections: The Lure of the Exotic" and "The Age of Impressionism: European Painting from the Ordrupgaard Collection, Copenhagen," (1) would be crowd-pleasing confections for the vacation season had, as they say, another think coming. Both shows could be enjoyed simply as slightly random accumulations of sometimes wonderful, sometimes familiar works, but both turned out to include some real surprises, to raise interesting questions about the nature of collecting, the difference between American and European taste, and even, in a couple of instances, to make you reconsider your ...
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- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques PECK, AMELIA January 1, 2000 700+ words
...had roots in New York extending back...recently founded Metropolitan Museum of Art. That...the lives of New York's poorest inhabitants...trustee of the Metropolitan Museum in 1889; in...obituary in the New York Times of May...
- Subtle splendors. (New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's Chinese art holdings)
- Magazine article from: Town & Country Ivry, Benjamin November 1, 1997 700+ words
...Chinese art at the Metropolitan Museum's stunning new...anticipated the trend is New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Its blockbuster...opened at the Metropolitan Museum with much ado...Asia Society in New York, a Ph.D. in...
- Natalie K. Blair's "museum rooms" and the American Wing.(New York Metropolitan...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques HECKSCHER, MORRISON H. January 1, 2000 700+ words
...Balmvilie, near Newburgh, New York. In 1912 she married...Forty-seventh Street in New York City, and later, whenever...down the street from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to 960 Fifth Avenue...Mountains forty miles west of New York City. (This was familiar...
- The Hudson - Fulton exhibition and H. Eugene Bolles.(New York Metropolitan...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques SAFFORD, FRANCES GRUBER January 1, 2000 700+ words
...following, not only in New York City but also along the...Cohoes near Albany, New York. In addition, special...twenty institutions in New York City. The Hudson-Fulton exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was an ambitious...
- R.T.H. Halsey: American Wing founder and champion of Duncan Phyfe.(New York...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques KENNY, PETER M. January 1, 2000 700+ words
...became a member of the New York Stock Exchange, a...involvement with the Metropolitan Museum began in 1906, when...Duncan Phyfe, the New York cabinet-maker, for...became president of the Metropolitan Museum, Henry W. Kent...
- Gallery chronicle.(New York Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibits)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Panero, James June 1, 2004 700+ words
...art has descended upon New York. No, it has nothing...of exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum alone will take up half...suggested that to escape the New York heat one could do worse...the American artist, New-York born, did not fare...
- President Clerides inaugurates four new galleries of Cypriot art in the New...
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire April 5, 2000 700+ words
...inaugurates four new galleries of Cypriot art in the New York Metropolitan Museum (C)1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05042000...galleries of Cypriot art in the Metropolitan Museum of New York. The galleries contain 600 Cypriot art exhibits...
- Introduction.(New York Metropolitan Museum, American Wing)
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Howat, John K. January 1, 2000 700+ words
On November 10, 1924, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City opened the American Wing to the public, presenting the first...Lawrence A Fleischman Chairman of the departments of American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.