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Matisse: In Search of True Painting
George Bellows
African Art, New York, and the Avant Garde
Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens
Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop
British Silver: The Wealth of a Nation
Bashford Dean and the Creation of the Arms and Armor Department

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Near Neighbors: Brooklyn Dressmakers in the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Posted on Monday, January 14, 2013, by P. Grace Hernandez

P. Grace Hernandez discusses the closely intertwined careers of Herbert Luey and Alice Bergen Coady, two independent dressmakers working in Brooklyn at the turn of the twentieth century.

Event Highlights: January 15–17

Posted on Monday, January 14, 2013

Marking the Arms and Armor Centennial

Posted on Wednesday, January 2, 2013, by Donald J. La Rocca

Donald LaRocca provides a brief overview of the history of the Department of Arms and Armor, which was established in 1912.