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Reports that the Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired the Gilman Paper Company Collection of photographs, an archive that includes hundreds of works from the medium's earliest years and that is widely considered to be the most important private photography collection in the world. Potential for the Met to become one the world's pre-eminent institutions for 19th century photographs; Reference to the Met's goal of acquiring the Gilman collection for the last 15 years; Question as to how much the collection cost and how much of it was a gift; Negotiations with the Gilman estate; Highlights from the collection.

This article presents information on various art exhibitions being organized in galleries in New York. Paper cups, opaque bottles and plain boxes: solidly painted in muted colors, these humble objects appear singly, in pairs or in small groups in Victor Pesce's mostly small paintings. Mr. Pesce's objects look slightly anthropomorphic. Simom Starling has devised a new suite of obscurely related objects and photographs whose theoretical interest is higher than its visual appeal. A massive sheet of steel, imported from Romania, rests on three air cushions.