Helen Levitt Photos Promised to Met

(Photo: Helen Levitt, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Today the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened its renovated American Wing (First Lady Michelle Obama performed the ribbon-cutting honors) and tomorrow throws open the doors to its Francis Bacon retrospective, but should when you make it to the Met this summer, don’t miss the selection of Helen Levitt photographs that have just gone on view in the the museum’s Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. Gallery. The Met recently established an endowment fund and promised gift of artwork in memory of Levitt, the great American street photographer who died

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