Inside the Met: The Curatorial Departments November 5, 2008

Inside the Met: The Curatorial Departments
Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art
Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Curator in Charge
Sabine Rewald, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Curator
Rebecca A. Rabinow, Associate Curator

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been collecting and exhibiting works by living artists from its inception in 1870, but it did not have a department devoted to modern art until 1970. With that special impetus, the collections expanded at such a rate that the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing was constructed in 1987 specifically for the display of twentieth-century art. In this lecture Gary Tinterow discusses the development of the collection, including its expansion in 2004 to include all European painting after 1800; Sabine Rewald highlights significant recent acquisitions; and Rebecca Rabinow focuses on the renovation of the galleries for nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European paintings and sculpture.

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