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Met’s modern and contemporary art outpost set to open

The Metropolitan Museum of Art throws open the doors to its new modern and contemporary art outpost, The Met Breuer, this month with an exhibition that places the works in the historical context of its rich encyclopedic collection.

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Met's modern and contemporary art outpost set to open
A visitor making a photo is silhouetted against 16th century oil paintings from Italian artists Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, left, and Domenico Beccafumi, right, during a press preview for the inaugural exhibition of The Met Breuer museum, Tuesday, March 1, 2016, in New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art throws open the doors March 18 to its new modern and contemporary art outpost, The Met Breuer. The new space is a short walk from the Met's Fifth Avenue headquarters. It's housed at the Marcel Breuer-designed building that was the longtime home of the Whitney Museum of American Art before it moved downtown last year. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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