We met in a museum, which was closed for renovation.

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For unique gifts, hit the museum shops, including those at the Met, the Whitney, the Jewish Museum and the Neue Galerie.

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The two met at a social event at the MIT Museum while Forest was working on his Ph.

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Examples of her work reside in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and New York's Met.

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Pasto sent the drawings to mainstream museums, such as New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim, but was met with resistance.

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Lauder has long been entwined with New York City's art institutions, serving as president and chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as various committees at the Met since the 1980s.

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He will also give the Met 14 pieces by Fernand Leger and 14 others by Juan Gris, according to the museum.

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The management team hope to show live broadcasts of the Met Opera, the Bolshoi ballet and other cultural events such as interactive exhibitions from the British Museum.

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The four artists were on the cusp of the radical Cubist movement in the early 1900s, a period underrepresented in the Met's current exhibition encompassing more than 5, 000 years of art history, according to museum officials.

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