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Armory Show, an exhibition of painting and sculpture held from February 17 to March 15, 1913, at the Sixty-ninth Regiment Armory in New York City. The show, a decisive event in the development of American art, was originally conceived by its organizers, the Association of American Painters and

Statue of Liberty, colossal statue on Liberty Island in the Upper New York Bay, U.S., commemorating the friendship of the peoples of the United States and France. Standing 305 feet (93 meters) high including its pedestal, it represents a woman holding a torch in her raised right hand and a tablet

Guggenheim Museum, international museum that collects and exhibits modern and contemporary art in New York City and other locations under the aegis of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The Guggenheim’s component museums are the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City; the Peggy Guggenheim

Adirondack Mountains, mountains in northeastern New York state, U.S. They extend southward from the St. Lawrence River valley and Lake Champlain to the Mohawk River valley. The mountains are only sparsely settled, and much of the area exists in a primitive natural state, protected by state law.