Not long ago, after a years-long renovation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened its collection of European paintings from the 14th through the 18th centuries. Just a few weeks back, the Brooklyn Museum presented a new hanging of its collection of American art. These two institutions have long led parallel lives. They were built in the late 19th century on the edges of symmetrical parks, designed in part by the same architects, paid for by members of the manufacturing and commercial aristocracy of their age, and renovated now with money made on the media, law, technology, and finance.
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