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Article: Rebirth of a nation: the Metropolitan's American Wing: this month the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, unveils the transformation of its American Wing, which includes a new presentation of 12 of its period rooms. Philippa Glanville explains the curatorial challenges and assesses the results.
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Ever since it opened in 1924, the American Gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has had to cope with a sense of detachment. Originally it was a separate structure in a garden, linked to the north-west corner of the museum by a first-floor corridor. Even after the completion in 1980 of a spacious new link to the main building, the Charles Engelhard Court, the American Galleries still felt tucked away, and could be approached only indirectly, by way of the Arms and Armor Gallery or the Egyptian Temple of Dendur.
The wing's main elevation, facing into the Charles Engelhard Court, is the classical 1824 marble facade of ...
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... ... Rangel, D-NY, as she cuts the ribbon during the ceremony officially reopening the Charles Engelhard Court of the newly renovated American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , Monday, May 18, 2009 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer ...
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