MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity.” Through May 27. | “Photography and the American Civil War.” Through Sept. 2. | “African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde.” Through Sept. 2. | “At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston.” Through July 28. | “Cambodian Rattan: The Sculptures of Sopheap Pich.” Through July 7. (Open Tuesdays through Sundays, 9:30 to 5:30, and Friday and Saturday evenings until 9.)
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
11 W. 53rd St. (212-708-9400)—“Claes Oldenburg: The Street and the Store / Mouse Museum and Ray Gun Wing.” No retrospective could meet the standards that Oldenburg once set for himself, to make art “that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum,” but this survey succeeds in capturing some of the raw, improvisational brashness of his early works. Fabulist ad-hoc sculptures of figures, concocted from anti-art materials like cardboard and plaster, make
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