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Museums and other indoor activities across New York are being allowed to reopen as coronavirus restrictions are cautiously eased. New York City is encouraging New Yorkers and people from the tri-state area to ‘staycation’ and help the city recover. (Aug. 24.)

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Dennis Kaiser leaned out of the scissor lift to reach the trumpeting angel. He gently brushed a vacuum cleaner hose along her outstretched arm.

For a minute, the sculpture and the art handler formed similar silhouettes in the sun-drenched American Wing.

One, carved of wood 120 years ago, was crafted at a time when the Industrial Revolution was transforming modern life. The other, as contemporary as could be, sucked up the accumulated dust of six months of coronavirus pandemic-required absence.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City reopens this week – Thursday to members and Saturday to the general public – after closing abruptly March 13. One of New York’s biggest tourist attraction, currently celebrating its 150th anniversary with a new exhibit, had never before closed for more than three days – and that was for bad weather.

Dennis Kaiser, art handler in the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, cleans a…



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