Summary
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and most respected art museums. Located along Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, the Met's permanent collection has more than two million works of art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and most respected art museums. Located along Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, the Met's permanent collection has more than two million works of art.
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A home for Tiffany's daffodils
Sentinel Staff WriterThe famed Daffodil Terrace from Louis Comfort Tiffany's Long Island estate will be displayed in a new wing of the Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park. The museum, home to the world's most extensive collection of Tiffany works, plans to build...Tags: Arts, New York, Laurelton, Rollins College, Long Island
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15th-century sculpture damaged at NYC's Met museum
A 15th-century sculpture at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has been damaged after it came loose from its moorings and fell to the floor. The museum says the damaged piece is a terracotta sculpture of Saint Michael the Archangel by Andrea della...Tags: Sculpture, New York
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Pampered Pooches
Leona Helmsley reportedly directed that her fortune — up to $8 billion — be used for the care and welfare of dogs. The New York Times reported Wednesday that the bequest was included in a so-called mission statement for the estate of the real...Tags: Josh Hartnett, Music Industry, Country Music, Film Festivals, Manhattan
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Why this actor's art shouldn't be at LACMA
Times Art CriticI'm no fan of public art museums exhibiting private collections. The negatives so far outweigh the positives that such shows hurt, rather than help, a museum's mission. The latest example is "Los Angelenos/Chicano Painters of L.A.: Selections From the...Tags: Los Angeles, Arts, Minority Groups, Libraries and Museums, Brooklyn Museum
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Quick Takes
Broadway producers, actors agree
Wary of reprising a crippling strike that shut down most Broadway shows last year, Broadway producers and the Actors' Equity Assn. announced a tentative 39-month labor agreement Wednesday.
The theater agreement was...Tags: Jay-Z, Film Festivals, Theater, Walt Disney, Arts
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Top of their class
At this time each year, Newsday introduces its readers to the top high school students graduating on Long Island - the valedictorians. Here are this year's top academic achievers from the high schools in your area, their photographs, their achievements,...Tags: Cornell University, United Nations, Stony Brook University, Douglas MacArthur, Siemens
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Exhibit Examines Costumes Of The Courageous
Courant Staff WriterNow more than ever, we need a break, an occasional respite from our everyday lives. Yes, a "daycation" — a day spent away from the office or job site, and away from chores, just to relax and play. Once again this summer, we are taking one day a week...Tags: Giorgio Armani, Libraries and Museums, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), New York, Ralph Lauren
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Farley was devoted to running Met PGA tournaments
John Farley, an expert on the rules of golf, applied these rules to his own life: make sure someone other than himself got noticed, see that other people had a good day, make a tournament run as smoothly as it could be run. Everyone involved with the...Tags: Darrell Kestner
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Monet work fetches a record $80 million
From Times Wire ReportsA water lily painting by Claude Monet sold Tuesday for more than $80 million, nearly doubling the auction record for the French Impressionist artist, Christie's said. "Water Lily Pond," which sold for $80,451,178, was part of a four-work set of water...Tags: Edgar Degas, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Claude Monet
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Manuel puts 'positive' spin on comments
caitlin.strang@newsday.comJerry Manuel brought up the issue of fertilizer Sunday, and the New York media made good on the opportunity to spread it last night before Manuel's home debut as Mets manager. Manuel spent a good chunk of his first pregame managerial news conference at...Tags: New York Mets, David Wright
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