Brian Lerer on WNYC, and now we'll end today with another installment in our Pledge Drive mini-series

looking ahead to the cultural events coming up this summer in New York City.

Today we're joined once more by WNYC and Gothamist Arts and Culture Reporter, Ryan Kailoff,

who is going to tell us about some of the great artwork to see in local museums and galleries this

summer. Hello again, Ryan.

Hey, Brian.

Let's aim high and start with the summer rooftop exhibit, at the Met.

What's on view this summer weather permitting?

Yeah, the Met's got a ton of exciting stuff this summer.

The highlights, probably before we get to the roof, are obviously the Sargent show.

I think that's a blockbuster. But the Caspar

David Friedrich show also. I think this is going to be one of the last rooftop shows that they

have this summer. But I do want to bring people to something I think is even the most interesting

show at the Met right now, which is pretty small, tucked into a corner, which is this new American photography exhibit they have.

So this is when photographs were becoming an interesting medium in America, as you can imagine, there's a lot of Civil War stuff in there, but also some really striking, if you believe

it or not, three-dimensional images that you look at through these special viewers that are vivid

in a way that you can't imagine. It blows current day 3D technology out of the way. And this is all

from a private collection that has been promised to the museum, but not shown yet. So it's very cool. What other exhibits at the Met should we make note of?

I think those are the highlights for the summer. They will be reopening, I think, in just a couple

weeks, the Rockefeller Wing, which is, this is the Sub-Saharan Africa, the Oceania, and the

sort of ancient South American art wing. It's been closed for, I believe, three years now

while they refigure the whole space. They're also rethinking the presentation and sort of the way

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