The lost and found in this once glorious transit hub took in more than fifteen hundred umbrellas in 1947, according to a Talk of the Town story. Mehr erfahren.
“Nancy told me Lon Havemeyer was in town and waiting that very moment to go with us to the Metropolitan Museum.” —Peter Taylor, “A Sentimental Journey” Mehr erfahren.
“The architectural strategy is jazzlike. Displays occur on offbeats of the space’s perambulatory rhythms—each object feels like an unexpected discovery.” —Peter Schjeldahl Mehr erfahren.
“Immaculate, rectilinear, capacious, and chaste,” John Updike wrote in 2004 after the museum’s renovation. Mehr erfahren.
