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John Sloan, The City from Greenwich Village (public domain)
Talk
New York City in Modern and Contemporary Art
Fri, Aug 21, 2026 · 11 AM ET
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Art historian Sylvia Laudien-Meo leads a virtual session on how twentieth-century artists depicted New York City through Cubism, Surrealism, Magic Realism, and Abstraction. The talk also touches on the history of the Metropolitan Museum's contemporary-art department and its new Tang Wing, designed by Frida Escobedo.
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