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Sharon Lorenzo views the Art of Native America exhibit. For 45 years Charles and Valerie Diker have been collecting items to add to their extraordinary assortment of Native American art holdings, 101 of which are now part of the collection…
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Oil on canvas, Prado Museum: Portrait of Don Francisco Arobe and Sons, 1599 Sharon Lorenzo reviews ancient Latin American treasures at the Met. Nestled in the inner courtyard on the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum in NYC is an…
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Sharon Lorenzo reviews the Met’s exhibition of portrait artist Vigee Le Brun –a rare one-woman exhibition. Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun has been in the cannons of art history along with other celebrated portrait artists but never has there been…
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Sharon Lorenzo reports from the Costume Institute at the Met The current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of the work of French designer, Jacqueline de Ribes, is the last effort of curator Harold Koda, who has brilliantly brought fashion to…
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Review of this lovely small Metropolitan Museum show by Sharon Lorenzo Design for Eternity is a show at the Metropolitan Museum that has brought together loans from many public and private collections in the Americas to explore funerary objects and…
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In our over-stimulating world of art fairs, gallery exhibitions and pop-up shows, it is a delight to visit the small rotunda at the Metropolitan Museum Lehman Pavilion which has just four works of art on display. Installed in the sequence…
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The current exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art contains 130 objects that reflect the artistic diversity of artists from the tribes of the American central plains. Ranging from the early works collected by foreign visitors federal to works of…
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Renowned art critic Peter Schjeldahl of The New Yorker called the Lauder gift of 81 Cubist works of art to the Metropolitan Museum in New York an “institutional organ transplant.” [1] This sterling act of generous philanthropy by the 81…
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Two curators from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Denver Art Museum have assembled 65 pedestal sculptures by 28 artists with accompanying paintings and photographs that chronicle our nostalgic memories of the vanishing wild west of the American continent….
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