"Right on time for the election year, American art has reoccupied the Metropolitan Museum of Art en masse. After four years of renovation the museum’s galleries of American painting and sculpture — long the most popular part of its now completely reopened American Wing — will be back on view on Monday, washed with light, rich with stories and scenic prospects, and packed with enough politics to fuel any presidential campaign. Economic inequities? The environment? Family values? Immigration? A nation at war, and at war with itself? It’s all there, along with a population of hawks, tree-huggers and 1-percenters, in images that make up one of the finest collections of American art. How do the updated galleries look? Sensational, which is news, because the old ones didn’t. They had a warehouse atmosphere, with pictures stacked up on the walls, sculpture plunked down wherever and narrative logic disrupted because the collection was split between two floors. Now all the galleries are on one floor, the second. And, thanks to an addition of 3,300 feet of repurposed space, there are more of them, 26 in all. More space wouldn’t mean much if it weren’t well used, but it is. The architects, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, have devised a wrap-around format with a few long-vista galleries cutting through a maze of smaller ones. The art placement is roughly chronological, but also coalesces into themes, and leaves choice of direction mostly up to the visitor. If you see something beckoning from another gallery, go for it. There are no wrong turns here."
La suite: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/16/arts/design/metropolitan-museum-of-arts-new-american-wing-galleries-review.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28
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