I was fortunate to twice preview the new American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum before the opening. It was a wonderful opportunity to see the art up close and to speak with the curators and chairm

Ángel Franco/The New York Times WELL-APPOINTED The collection of a dealer, Carswell Rush Berlin, at the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory. Mr. Berlin sold a wood-framed sofa that had been priced at $110,000. Earlier this week, perhaps in an

Ángel Franco/The New York Times WELL-APPOINTED The collection of a dealer, Carswell Rush Berlin, at the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory. Mr. Berlin sold a wood-framed sofa that had been priced at $110,000. Earlier this week, perhaps in an

By Eric Gibson New York It's not the Metropolitan Museum of Art's fault that its expanded and renovated galleries of American painting, sculpture and decorative arts are opening after similar efforts on the part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Cr

Edward Hicks (American, 1780–1849). The Peaceable Kingdom, circa 1833–34. Oil on canvas, 17 7/16 x 23 9/16 in. (44.3 x 59.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, 40.340 This major installation of more than three hundred fifty objects from the Brookl

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The beloved contents of the American Wing painting galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, now elegantly re-installed, should always look familiar. Staten Islanders are well-exposed to American art. The collections of both Hist