"Human/Nature" Group Exhibit by Filipino Painters

Filipino artists Fil de la Cruz, Janos de la Cruz and Gel Jamlang are currently holding an exhibit entitled "Human/Nature" at the Philippine Center Lobby Gallery on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Fil de la Cruz, a prominent print artist, is the President of the Print Association of the Philippines from 1990-2000. Janos de la Cruz and Gel Jamlang are two of the brightest emerging artists in the Philippines. Their paintings celebrate and explore the human face and character (Janos de la Cruz), flowers (Gel Jamlang) and the iconic muses of Fil de la Cruz. The exhibit will run through March 30, 2012. The Philippine Center is located at 556 Fifth Avenue between 45th and 46th Streets.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Opens its New American Wing Galleries

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" by Emanuel Leutze

"Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Lincoln)" by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907)

"Banks of the Loing" by William Picknell

"Young Mother Sewing" by Mary Cassatt

"Fleur de Lis" by Robert Reid

"Central Park, Winter" by William Glackens

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will publicly open its newly renovated New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture and Decorative Arts tomorrow, January 16. Member previews take place from January 13-15. The galleries have been expanded and reconceived, showcasing the history of American art from the 18th through the early 20th century. Prominently featured in the gallery is Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze’s restored “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” Painted in Germany in 1851, “Crossing” is in a new gilded frame created to match the original (which was lost in the 19th century,) according to curator Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser.

The 26 galleries cover 30,000 square feet (3,300 square feet more then before the renovation,) and are now displayed by chronological topics including Faces of the Young Republic, the Hudson River School, Civil War Era, The West and American Impressionism.

Works by Gilbert Stuart, Frederic Edwin Church, Thomas Cole, John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, William Glackens, Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent are included.