Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was incorporated in 1870 and moved to its present location in Central Park in 1880. It houses an encyclopedic collection of art objects from virtually all periods and continents.
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Sat, Nov 19, 2011 – Sun, May 6, 2012 Featuring more than 60 works of art in a range of mediums and formats, this exhibition invites you to explore Japan's long and rich history of pairing narrative texts with elaborate illustrations.
Plant Drawings by Ellsworth Kelly
Tues, June 5, 2012 – Mon, Sept 3, 2012 The first major museum exhibition dedicated exclusively to the plant drawings of Ellsworth Kelly. Approximately 80 drawings begin in 1948, during Kelly's early sojourn in Paris, and continue throughout his travels to his most recent work made in upstate New York.
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
Tues, Feb 28, 2012 – Sun, June 3, 2012 This exhibition unites some 200 works of art to demonstrate the significant impact the Steins' patronage had on the artists of their day and the way in which the family disseminated a new standard of taste for modern art-from Matisse to Picasso.