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The story of Romeo and Juliet is transported to the turbulent streets of New York City in the 1950s. Star-crossed lovers are caught between rival street gangs. Directed by librettist Arthur Laurents, the show
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In this second phase of a major, three-phase reordering and upgrading of the American Wing, one of the Museum�s best-loved spaces--The Charles Engelhard Court, showcasing sculptures, stained-glass windows, and other treasures of American art overlooking Central Park--has been transformed to better display the works on view and to facilitate public access. Renovations to the balcony include new glass barrier walls and a rethinking of the ceramics, glass, silver, and jewelry installations. The addition of a mezzanine level adds over 3,000 square feet of exhibition space and houses the newly announced promised gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr. of ceramics of the United States, 1876�1956. Many of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century period rooms have been moved or replaced to improve circulation, and visitors can now access them more readily via a new glass-walled public elevator. The first phase, New Classical Galleries on the first floor of the American Wing, opened to the public in 2007; the third and final phase is scheduled for completion in 2011.
Exhibitions National Museum Of American History - Washington D.C.
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