America’s premier art museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was founded in 1870. One of the architectural glories of New York City, The Met stretches four blocks along Fifth Avenue with over two million objects under one roof. The museum is a dazzling three-dimensional encyclopedia of world art, radiating 5,000 years of art history. In this stunning production, the masterpieces of The Met come to life through high-definition videography and insightful interviews with Museum Director Philippe de Montebello and the museum’s dedicated curatorial staff.

In this episode: American portraiture from Copley to Sully to Sargent; Madame X

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American literature is big. It’s not easy to find your way around. So, Crossword-Solver used Goodreads data to build a new interactive tool for the armchair traveler: enter your zip code, and we’ll reveal the book set closest to you. Further down, we use the stats to discover the literary nature of each state and the towns where you’re most likely to find yourself in a book.

Key Findings
- New York City is the most common literary setting in the U.S., appearing prominently in 2,609 books.
- New York is also the most-seen state in literature, although California is number one if you discount both states’ top locations.
- Every novel set in Pearl Harbor is listed as ‘historical’ on Goodreads.
- 92.59% of all books set in Bloomington, Indiana, belong to the romance genre.