In addition, Radio 2 is to become the official broadcast partner of The Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year, which celebrates museums and galleries across the UK – annually awarding one outstanding winner £100,000.
Fairey is famed for the Barack Obama "Hope" poster, celebrated in museums and sought for commercial projects worldwide.
Pavlovian reflexes continue to be triggered by names repeatedly celebrated in museum displays and in the media.
In the meantime, he added, the 50th anniversary of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum in New York, is a "historic opportunity to celebrate the museum".
"It's a way of celebrating the museum's origins," she added.
To celebrate the museum's 25th anniversary, the Nostalgia Train will be running twice more this summer, on July 15 and July 29.
A small, svelte show at the Metropolitan celebrates the museum's recent acquisition of its first painting by the great, strange, and vexing German Romantic Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840).
On Tuesday at 7 p.m., the curator Valerie Steele will give a talk on her monograph "Fashion Designers A-Z," which celebrates the museum's equally expansive permanent collection.
Featuring trees and trimmings decorated by local garden clubs and the Friends of the Monmouth Museum with a golden theme to celebrate the museum's 50th anniversary in 2013.
