'Picasso in the Met' and 'American Woman' to Close 8/15

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be closing two popular exhibits, 'Picasso in the Met' and 'American Woman' on August 15. The immensly popular Picasso exhibit is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the remarkable array of works by Pablo Picasso in the Metropolitan's collection. Featuring 300 works by Picasso, this exhibition is an unprecedented opportunity to see one of the most important collections in the world of the artist's work. It reveals the Museum's complete holdings of the artist's paintings, drawings, sculptures and ceramics-never before seen in their entirety-as well as an extensive selection of prints.

American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity is the first Costume Institute exhibition drawn from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Met. The exhibition explores developing perceptions of the modern American woman from the 1890s to the 1940s, and how they have affected the way American women are seen today.  Focusing on archetypes of American femininity through dress, the exhibition reveals how the American woman initiated style revolutions that mirrored her social, political, and sartorial emancipation.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.  Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City's Central Park along Fifth Avenue (from 80th to 84th Streets). Nearly five million people visit the Museum each year.

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