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Indepth Arts News:
"The New Greek Galleries"
2000-04-20 until 2000-12-31
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
Following several years of planning and construction,
seven completely renovated and reinstalled galleries
for Greek art are open to the public on the Museums
first floor. This latest stage in a three-phase
expansion of the exhibition space devoted to Greek and
Roman art comprises the Mary and Michael Jaharis
Gallery—the grand vaulted gallery that was formerly
known as the Cypriot corridor, now fully skylit from
above and clad in limestone walls as originally
envisioned by McKim, Mead and White in 1917—and
the six flanking galleries for Archaic and Classical
Greek art, restored to their Neoclassical grandeur.
The new galleries constitute the largest and most
comprehensive permanent installation of its kind in
the Western Hemisphere.
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