Nadja Hansen, Editorial Assistant, Editorial Department
Posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2011
The Met produces around thirty publications a year, including special exhibition and permanent collection catalogues, guides, the quarterly Bulletin, the annual Journal, and many other special projects. As an assistant in the Editorial Department, I get a glimpse of all stages of production, from the initial proposal until the time the bound book arrives on my desk.
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Barbara Drake Boehm, Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters; and Melanie Holcomb, Associate Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters
Posted: Monday, April 18, 2011
Anna Bernhard, Archives Assistant, Museum Archives
Posted: Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Barbara File, Archivist, Museum Archives
Posted: Friday, April 1, 2011
The Metropolitan will be a more priceless treasure of the America of centuries hence even than it is today. It is our privilege to pass on to the coming centuries treasures of past ages and to add to these the artistic creations of our own. But now, today, hundreds of returned soldiers will profit by your help in creative effort, and thousands more will gain inspiration from your exhibits. They who have dwelt with death will be among the most ardent worshipers of life and beauty and of the peace in which these can thrive.
—General Dwight D. Eisenhower in an address at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2, 1946
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Adrianna Del Collo, Archivist, Museum Archives
Posted: Monday, March 28, 2011
One hundred and forty years ago today, The Metropolitan Museum of Art made its first purchase of works of art—a group of 174 European old master paintings that became known as the "Purchase of 1871." William T. Blodgett, a founding member and Trustee of the Museum, facilitated the acquisition. A purchase of this scale would be remarkable even today, but in 1871, it was considered most audacious. The Metropolitan Museum was a new institution—only a year old—and possessed just one object (a sarcophagus), no gallery space, and no professional curatorial staff. The Trustees of the Museum, many of them collectors and connoisseurs, filled this role in addition to tending to the Museum's administrative needs. Blodgett was one such connoisseur who had honed his aesthetic judgment by collecting and commissioning contemporary French, German, English, and American paintings for his personal collection.
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Ashley Williams, Associate Administrator, Office of the Director
Posted: Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Morgan Holzer, Associate Project Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Silvia Centeno, Research Scientist, Department of Scientific Research
Posted: Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Claire Bowman, Visitor Services Assistant
Posted: Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Jennette Mullaney, Former Associate Email Marketing Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Thursday, February 10, 2011
«Since its debut on January 5, Connections has allowed tens of thousands of viewers to become acquainted with members of our staff. Each episode sparkles with the personality of a narrator who weaves together works of art from the Met's collections, based on a theme that he or she finds particularly inspiring. Our viewers have been inspired as well.
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James Moske, Managing Archivist, Museum Archives
Posted: Friday, February 4, 2011
«On February 6, 1871, a committee of the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art discussed the plan that led to the construction of the Museum's first building at its current site on the east side of New York's Central Park.
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Luisa Casella, Research Scholar in Photograph Conservation, Department of Photographs
Posted: Thursday, January 20, 2011
Keith Christiansen, John Pope-Hennessy Chairman, Department of European Paintings
Posted: Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Ruthie Dibble, 2010–11 Douglass Foundation Fellow in The American Wing
Posted: Wednesday, January 12, 2011
James Moske, Managing Archivist, Museum Archives
Posted: Thursday, December 30, 2010
Forty years ago this weekend, on January 1, 1971, The Metropolitan Museum of Art first distributed admission buttons, replacing the envelope-sized, two-color tickets that had been used during a transitional period in 1970.
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Denise Canniff, Senior Manager for Online Strategy and Marketing, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Monday, December 20, 2010
Our new and improved home page—which has beautiful, rotating images of our special exhibitions and permanent collections—launched today. In addition to listing general information about the Main Building and The Cloisters museum and gardens more prominently, the new design also makes it easy to buy online admission tickets directly from the Museum.
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James Moske, Managing Archivist, Museum Archives
Posted: Monday, December 20, 2010
Thirty-five years ago today, on December 20, 1975, United States President Gerald R. Ford signed into law the Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act, which gave the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities the authority to insure international exhibitions that traveled from overseas to U.S. museums. This legislation was a watershed moment in the history of art exhibitions in the United States, making it possible for museums around the world to collaborate with U.S. institutions on traveling loan shows while minimizing insurance costs to the participating institutions.
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Brian Cha, Intern, Design Department
Posted: Friday, December 17, 2010
For visitors to the Metropolitan, the vast amount of amazing art on display may make it difficult to appreciate the main building's architecture as anything other than a backdrop. However, with a brief introduction, the Museum's rich architectural history comes to life and serves as a valuable complement to its collections.
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Melissa Bowling, Assistant Archivist, Museum Archives
Posted: Friday, November 19, 2010
On November 21, 1870, The Metropolitan Museum of Art accessioned its first work of art—a Roman marble sarcophagus found in 1863 at Tarsus in Cilicia (modern southern Turkey).
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Barbara File, Archivist, Museum Archives
Posted: Friday, November 12, 2010
Forty years ago this weekend, on November 14, 1970, the exhibition Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This was the last in a series of five major exhibitions organized over the course of eighteen months (October 1969–February 1971) in celebration of the Museum's centennial.
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