Emma Wegner, Assistant Museum Educator, The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
Posted: Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Since its doors opened in 1938, The Cloisters—the branch of the Met devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe—has been beloved not only for its extraordinary collection of medieval art, but also for its gardens.
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Eric Kjellgren, Evelyn A. J. Hall and John A. Friede Associate Curator for Oceanic Art, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Posted: Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Ever since its inception in the early 1970s, the contemporary Aboriginal art movement in Australia has been continually developing and expanding to embrace an ever widening group of artists, communities, and artistic styles.
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Jennette Mullaney, Former Associate Email Marketing Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Tuesday, May 11, 2010
The exhibition Mastering the Art of Chinese Painting: Xie Zhiliu (1910–1997) showcases a rich body of material that offers a rare glimpse into the creative process of a traditional Chinese artist. I spoke with Maxwell K. Hearn, Douglas Dillon Curator in the Museum's Department of Asian Art, about Hosta and Asters, one of the many stunning works on view.
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Lisa Musco Doyle, Senior Manager, Concerts & Lectures
Posted: Tuesday, May 4, 2010
As the Senior Manager for Concerts & Lectures at the Met I am extremely proud of our ability to present amazing programs each year. While many of our readers are familiar with the Museum's program of scholarly lectures, some of you may not realize that the Met also has a long tradition of presenting musical events, including special programs just for families.
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Alice W. Schwarz, Museum Educator
Posted: Wednesday, April 28, 2010
What do you get when you mix a groundbreaking exhibition, a cutting-edge curatorial team, two enthusiastic Museum educators, and a great American fashion company? A T-shirt design competition for teens!
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Mia Fineman, Assistant Curator, Department of Photographs
Posted: Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Jennette Mullaney, Former Associate Email Marketing Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Wednesday, April 21, 2010
This beautiful sculpture, a representation of the boy-king Tutankhamun, is among the nearly sixty objects featured in the current exhibition Tutankhamun's Funeral. I spoke with Dorothea Arnold, the Lila Acheson Wallace Chairman of the Department of Egyptian Art, about the significance and style of this work.
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James Moske, Managing Archivist, Museum Archives
Posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010
One hundred forty years ago today, on April 13, 1870, the Legislature of the State of New York granted an act of incorporation that formally established The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Sinéad Kehoe, Assistant Curator, Department of Asian Art
Posted: Friday, April 9, 2010
Wendy Stein, Research Associate, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters
Posted: Tuesday, April 6, 2010
We are just a little over a month into the run of The Art of Illumination—the exhibition with the impossibly long subtitle: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry. Come see it if you haven't already—or if you have, but couldn't get a turn with one of the magnifying glasses we have provided, come back to see the astounding detail in these magical little pictures.
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Keith Christiansen, John Pope-Hennessy Chairman, Department of European Paintings
Posted: Monday, March 29, 2010
Each time I stand before this painting I am impressed by the clever way the artist—the most famous female painter of the seventeenth century—has infused a well-known biblical story with her understanding of a gendered society in which women employed beauty and cleverness to gain the upper hand.
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Malcolm Daniel, Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs
Posted: Monday, March 22, 2010
Jennette Mullaney, Former Associate Email Marketing Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Tuesday, March 16, 2010
In honor of Women's History Month, I recently spoke with Rebecca Rabinow, associate curator in the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, about The Horse Fair, a monumental painting by Rosa Bonheur (French, 1822–1899).
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Ken Moore, Frederick P. Rose Curator in Charge, Department of Musical Instruments
Posted: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Last Tuesday, we unlocked the doors of the Musical Instruments galleries, which had been closed for an eight-month hiatus while roof work was performed on the American Wing side of our galleries.
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Soyoung Lee, Associate Curator, Department of Asian Art
Posted: Wednesday, March 3, 2010
When I first saw 25 Wishes in the Chelsea studio of the artist Ik-joong Kang nearly a year ago, my first thought was how wonderful it would look in the Met's Korean gallery.
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Federico Carò, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow, Department of Scientific Research
Posted: Thursday, February 25, 2010
The substantial collection of Khmer art at the Met comprises pre-Angkor and Angkor freestanding sculptures and architectural elements from Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam. Like the works gathered in Phnom Penh at the National Museum of Cambodia and in Paris at the Musée Guimet, these works illustrate the birth and evolution of the different Khmer styles and record changes in the sculptural artistic medium through time and across geographical areas.
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William B. Crow, Senior Museum Educator, School and Teacher Programs
Posted: Tuesday, February 23, 2010
When I'm not teaching adults or students in the galleries of the Museum, I develop, plan, and oversee workshops for K–12 teachers designed to introduce educators (and, thus, their students) to great works of art through object-based learning, interdisciplinary integration, and inquiry.
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Mike Norris, Museum Educator
Posted: Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Every year, the Met welcomes close to twenty thousand family members who participate in more than five hundred special activities.
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Jennette Mullaney, Former Associate Email Marketing Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Tuesday, February 9, 2010
As the editor of the monthly email newsletter Met News, I have the pleasure of interviewing curators and other experts about works of art from the Museum's collections. More than 113,000 subscribers already receive Met News, but I'm happy to be able to include selected interviews here for an even wider audience. For this month's issue, I interviewed Lisa M. Messinger, associate curator in the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, about Romare Bearden's masterful, mural-size collage The Block.
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Marco Leona, David H. Koch Scientist in Charge, Department of Scientific Research
Posted: Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Many visitors may not realize that the Museum's staff includes ten scientists, with backgrounds in chemistry, biology, geology, or engineering. As part of the Department of Scientific Research, we study the materials and the technologies that were used in creating works of art, and we collaborate with curators and conservators on art historical studies, conservation research, and conservation treatments.
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