The Metropolitan Museum of Art

>Group tour of the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia The Metropolitan Museum of Art Wednesday, June 27, 3:30-4:30 p.m.

Meet at Group Tour Desk in the Museum’s Great Hall (tour limited to 25 people) The Metropolitan Museum’s renowned collection of Islamic art—one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world—is back on display in enlarged, freshly conceived, and completely renovated galleries that opened in November 2011. These 15 new galleries evoke the plurality of the Islamic tradition and vast cross-fertilization of ideas and artistic forms, as they trace the course of Islamic civilization over a span of 13 centuries, from the Middle East to North Africa, Europe, and Central and South Asia.

> Group tour of the New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture and Decorative Arts The Metropolitan Museum of Art Saturday, June 30, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Meet at Group Tour Desk in the Museum’s Great Hall (tour limited to 25 people) A suite of 26 elegant, new Beaux Arts-style galleries within the Metropolitan Museum’s American Wing invites visitors to immerse themselves in the one of the most extraordinary collections of American paintings and sculpture in existence. The paintings collection is filled with iconic works—dating from the 18th to the early 20th century—by such masters as John Singleton Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and John Singer Sargent. The centerpiece of the new, sky-lit installation is one of the best-known works in all of American art, Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze’s massive 1851 canvas Washington Crossing the Delaware.

Please email Cristina Vremes, [email protected], to ensure your place.