MMA's Lehman Wing to Reopen

The Robert Lehman Wing of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art will reopen with two special exhibitions on Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and American landscape painting.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is presenting two special exhibitions in its renovated Robert Lehman Wing.

Tiepolo Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection (May 20-August 17, 2008) features some 60 works on paper by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) and his son Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804). Included in the court-level presentation are preparatory figural and animal studies, narrative drawings, religious and mythological compositions, caricatures and genre scenes.

Also on view beginning May 20 is American Landscapes on the wing's first floor. Nine oversize paintings from The Met's collection will be on display while the American WIng galleries and period rooms are being upgraded.