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March 6, 2016

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New art for New York

NEW York is adding to its glittering portfolio of art museums with a new gallery dedicated to modern and contemporary art — The Met Breuer, which opens with a retrospective of a little known Indian artist.

The gallery is housed in the modernist icon that Hungarian-born Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer built in 1966 on Madison Avenue for the Whitney Museum of American Art, which last year moved downtown to a spanking new site.

When the Breuer opens to the public on March 18, it will become the third site for the famed Metropolitan Museum of Art — the city’s most frequented museum. Last year it welcomed a record 6.3 million visitors to its Fifth Avenue address and Cloisters celebrating Medieval art in northern Manhattan.

“This is a masterpiece of mid-century architecture and we are going to be reactivating it with a new curatorial spirit,” Met director Thomas Campbell said, calling it a “significant moment for the city.”

The project is the brainchild of billionaire philanthropist Leonard Lauder, the son of cosmetics legend Estee who has endowed the Met with millions of dollars to further its modern and contemporary art and scholarship.

His gifts plug a gap in the Met’s otherwise rich 5,000-year history of art, even if America’s cultural capital is already heaving with contemporary and modern art. Besides the Whitney, the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim have some of the world’s finest collections.




 

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