new home

Back in the day, when I worked at Time Inc. in Rockefeller Center, I would often walk through the Equitable building to admire the five-story Lichtenstein. And then I would walk through the corridor where the Thomas Hart Benton mural "America Today" hung—too high, in my view,  to keep it safe. Underappreciated for years, it has hung in public buildings, sat in storage. But now it has been given to the Metropolitan, which will give it the showcase it deserves. Here is how it will look in 2015.