What looks to be a smashing exhibit of J.M.W. Turner opens today at the Met:

The first retrospective of the work of J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) presented in the United States in more than forty years, this international exhibition highlights approximately 140 paintings and watercolors—more than half of them from Tate Britain’s Turner Bequest—along with works from other collections in Europe and North America. The artist’s extensive iconographic range is represented, from seascapes and topographical views to historical subjects and scenes from his imagination.

Also at the Met are pieces from the Victoria and Albert Museum’s medieval collection, includingh a notebook of Da Vinci’s, whose galleries in London are being renovated. If you’re in New York at all this summer, both would be worth checking out.