Douglas Newton, then the curator of the Museum of Primitive Art in New York, established by Nelson A. Rockefeller on West 54th Street in Manhattan, commissioned the ceiling in 1970, after the Met ...

NEW YORK — Beginning in the late 1930s, Nelson Rockefeller tried to interest the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the exhibition of pre-Columbian artifacts, which he had begun to collect after a ...

Through paint, they gain new resonance, building bridges between the past and what is deeply present. Lorna Simpson: Source Notes is now on view in New York through November 2.