A Milestone for the Met
he New York businessmen, civic leaders, and artists who banded together in 1870 to form a public institution for “encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts,” and “advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects” couldn’t have known that their project would blossom into the United () is spread across three locations, and culture vultures have even more reason to visit this year thanks to the institution’s sesquicentennial celebrations.
