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The wall reliefs featured in this exhibition are drawn from a period of Lobe’s activity that spans over two decades. They stack upwards into the space, some cliff-like, some shelf-like from which some mythical forest “pan” might peer down at us. The wall reliefs combining rock and trees are often done in one sheet of metal to simplify and convey the idea of the created landscape. Included in this ...

An exhibit of historic signatures from the Museum's archives including letters from Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, P.T. Barnum, J. Edgar Hoover, Alexander Calder, and many others. The collection will be exhibited in the history gallery. Monday: Closed Sundays: 12 noon - 5:00 p.m.

The Burdick baseball card collection constitutes an integral part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of ephemera and tells the history of popular printmaking in the United States. In 1947, after having approached A. Hyatt Mayor, the Museum's curator of prints and photographs, the Syracuse electrician Jefferson R. Burdick (1900–1963) began to donate his entire collection of approximatel...

April 7, 2015 - August 28, 2016 - This exhibit provides a window into the lives of America’s privileged classes both at home and at play during the Victorian era. Some of the fine clothing and personal items, like elegant men’s pocket watches and ladies jewelry and hair combs, will be very familiar to fans of Downton Abbey. Objects like grandfather clocks and gentleman’s ceremonial items exhibit a...

This exhibition held in the West Gallery illustrates how - As a child, Eric Carle became interested in insects, a curiosity sparked by his father, who took him on walks in the woods and fields, exploring the tiny creatures that lived there. In Bees, Butterflies, and Other Bugs, The Museum celebrates the wings, stings, and crawling things that have appeared throughout Carle's career, ranging from a...

Eight paintings by George Stubbs (172401806) have been lent to the Metropolitan Museum by the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, while its Louis I. Kahn building is closed for renovation until 2016. The works are shown together with British old master paintings from the permanent collection. Stubbs's sporting pictures form part of the most important collection of British art outside the Unite...

Silver from the Nicolas M. Salgo Collection - This large collection of silver—about 120 pieces, most dating from the fifteenth to the late eighteenth century—comprises a variety of types with especially refined appearance and high levels of craftsmanship, representing Hungarian silver at its best. The earliest works in the Salgo Collection are two rare medieval chalices ornamented with colorful fi...

April 04, 2015 - October 29, 2017 - This installation celebrates the important place Maine holds in the history of American art. This selection of works from the museum's collection includes a group of works that were shown in an exhibition this winter at the Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach, Florida. Among them are some of the museum's best known works, revealing the museum's strong holdings ce...

This exhibit is the first thematic exhibition at the Zimmerli to chart the development of hyperrealism and photorealism in the Soviet Union during the late 1970s and 1980s. The works on view illustrate that Soviet Hyperrealism was a complex and multifaceted method that arose and developed in relation to the artists’ regional and creative backgrounds. In addition, the exhibition spotlights women wh...

Life at the Limits: Stories of Amazing Species explores the diverse and sometimes jaw-dropping strategies animals and plants employ to find food, fend off predators, reproduce, and thrive in habitats many would find inhospitable, even lethal. Location: American Museum of Natural History- LeFrak Family Gallery, fourth floor Open daily except on Thanksgiving and Christmas