"The New York School, 1969: Henry Geldzahler at the Metropolitan Museum of Art"

This show recalls The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s massive 1969 survey of New York School art, from Pollock to Warhol. Mounted as part of the Met’s centennial celebration that year, the show was organized by Henry Geldzahler, the legendary art-world macher, critic and curator who also served as former mayor Ed Koch’s Commissioner of Cultural Affairs for New York City. Effectively, the exhibit represented the high-water mark for New York as the undisputed art capital of the world—a status it can no longer really claim in this globalized era.