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The first major showing of the work of the French Impressionist Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) to be presented in New York in more than thirty years presents the artist’s well-known Parisian cityscapes alongside his painted scenes of outdoor life on the coast of Normandy and in the rural villages of Yerres and Petit Gennevilliers, where he and his family maintained estates.

An exhibition of photographs of the acclaimed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo taken by her friend and lover, the internationally renowned portrait photographer Nickolas Muray (1892–1965). 

With 120 graphic works by Pablo Picasso, taken from five creative periods spanning approximately a decade each, the exhibition leads us into Picasso’s universe of motifs and obsessions.

This is young, vibrant artist Lidia de Pedro’s first solo show and includes all new work with engaging titles such as Flower Power, My Sweetie, The Blood Sucker, The Eating Machine and Give Me Poison Today I Wanna Die.

“All my portraits have to be the same size, so they’ll all fit together and make one big painting called Portraits of Society. That’s a good idea, isn’t it? Maybe the Metropolitan Museum would want it someday.” Andy Warhol

The magnificence and splendour of Baroque, one of the most opulent styles of the 17th and 18th centuries, is the subject of this exhibition. The exhibition reflects the complexity and grandeur of the Baroque style, from the Rome of Borromini and Bernini to the magnificence of Louis XIV's Versailles and the lavishness of Baroque theatre and performance. 

This exhibition features approximately 300 works from the Denver Art Museum’s newly acquired collection of posters promoting dance concerts and other gatherings that have become iconic symbols of 1960s and ‘70s youth culture. In addition, album covers, underground newspapers and comics, and other material will round out the presentation, accompanied by music, film and activities to evoke the era. 

“The Cold War. Art and design in the divided world 1945 – 1970” reconstructs and explores the social, political and cultural climate of this crucial period, through art, design, architecture, cinema and the visual arts.

The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion, the spring 2009 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, explores the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, focusing on iconic fashion models in the latter half of the 20th century and their roles in projecting, and sometimes inspiring, the fashion of their respective eras.

A major retrospective of the work of one of the 20th century's key figures, Vassili Kandinsky, this exhibition brings together some hundred of Kandinsky's finished paintings, particularly the Impressions and the Improvisations.