November 22nd, 2011 by Terry Carbone
This face may look familiar to you . . . ! As our signature image for Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties. Luigi Lucioni’s stellar portrait of his friend and colleague, Paul Cadmus, is reproduced on BIG posters throughout the subway system. The portrait is actually small scale, and...
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September 8th, 2011 by Karen Sherry
One of the projects I’ve been working on is Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum, an exhibition of about 100 of our pre-1945 American drawings and sketchbooks scheduled to open in March 2013. Read more
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May 12th, 2011 by Karen Sherry
This portrait by the British painter Thomas Hudson has just been added to American Identities, the installation of the Museum’s world-renowned collections of American art. Read more
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January 20th, 2011 by Richard Aste
Today an American beauty goes on view in the Museum’s European Beaux-Art Court. The Virgin by the Italo-American Futurist Joseph Stella joins the Court’s Old and Modern Masters on the northern wall nestled in between Renaissance portraits of women painted in Italy and Peru. Read more
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September 8th, 2010 by Margaret Stenz
New York history buffs will be interested to know that this month, September 2010, marks the 100th anniversary of the opening of Penn Station. No, not the subterranean labyrinth that we now know as Penn Station—that one opened in 1968—but the magnificent Beaux-Arts style marble terminus, the...
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