Missed Anniversaries
By Laurie Lewis
In this year like no other, many institutions around the globe have been unable to celebrate important anniversaries. Other organizations have been forced to scale back on festivities or to mark the occasion only virtually. In this newsletter, we recognize some New York institutions that had milestone anniversaries (arbitrarily defined as those divisible by 25) that could not be recognized as planned or that slipped by unnoticed.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art shut its doors because of COVID-19 a month shy of its 150th birthday on April 13. For several months, art lovers had to be content with viewing the Met’s collections online. When visitors were able to return to the building starting in late August, they could enjoy the long-planned centerpiece of the Met’s anniversary celebration, a 250-item exhibition called Making the Met, 1870–2020. One thing that remained throughout the closure and reopening: a banner over the entrance proclaiming The Met 150.
In this year like no other, many institutions around the globe have been unable to celebrate important anniversaries. Other organizations have been forced to scale back on festivities or to mark the occasion only virtually. In this newsletter, we recognize some New York institutions that had milestone anniversaries (arbitrarily defined as those divisible by 25) that could not be recognized as planned or that slipped by unnoticed.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art shut its doors because of COVID-19 a month shy of its 150th birthday on April 13. For several months, art lovers had to be content with viewing the Met’s collections online. When visitors were able to return to the building starting in late August, they could enjoy the long-planned centerpiece of the Met’s anniversary celebration, a 250-item exhibition called Making the Met, 1870–2020. One thing that remained throughout the closure and reopening: a banner over the entrance proclaiming The Met 150.
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