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C. Griffith Mann Appointed Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge, and Peter Barnet Appointed Senior Curator, of Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters

Metropolitan Museum’s Main Building and Cloisters Observe Memorial Day—May 27—Final “Met Holiday Monday”

Metropolitan Museum of Art to Return Two Khmer Sculptures to Cambodia

Cynthia Round Named Metropolitan Museum’s New Senior Vice President, Marketing and External Relations

Rare 15th-Century Illuminated Manuscript of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah Jointly Acquired by The Israel Museum, Jerusalem and The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces the 2013-14 Season of Met Museum Presents – Performances and Talks that Amplify, Enrich, and Reinterpret the Met's Collection and Galleries

Metropolitan Museum to Offer Combined Same-Week Admission to The Cloisters

Metropolitan Museum Announces Gift of Major Cubist Collection Comprising 78 Works by Picasso, Braque, Gris, and Léger from Leonard A. Lauder and Creation of New Research Center for Modern Art

El Metropolitan Museum Anuncia La Donación de Una Importante Colección de Arte Cubista Reunida por Leonard A. Lauder, Que Incluye 78 Obras de Picasso, Braque, Gris y Léger, y La Creación de un Nuevo Centro de Investigación de Arte Moderno

Metropolitan Museum Announces Live Streaming from Red Carpet of Costume Institute Benefit

Metropolitan Museum Signs Agreement with India’s Ministry of Culture to Cooperate in Areas Including Conservation, Exhibitions, and Research

Metropolitan Museum to Open 7 Days a Week Starting July 1

Credit Suisse to Donate Trumbull’s Iconic Portrait of Alexander Hamilton to Metropolitan Museum of Art and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Stuart W. Pyhrr to Become Distinguished Research Curator after 25 Years Leading Metropolitan Museum’s Arms and Armor Department

Metropolitan Museum Launches 82nd & Fifth, a 2013 Multimedia Online Series Featuring 100 Works of Art and 100 Curators They Inspired

Now Available…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide
in Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish

Met Museum Presents – Spring 2013 Schedule

Met Museum Presents – June 2013

Met Museum Presents – Just Announced:
OM: At Giza

Metropolitan Museum’s New Galleries for Islamic Art Department Draw One Million Visitors

Ground Formally Broken for New David H. Koch Plaza at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Julie Jones to Become Curator Emeritus After Distinguished 38-Year Career at Metropolitan Museum in Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Spring 2013 Concerts Celebrate 75th Anniversary of The Cloisters

Met Museum Presents – May 2013

Met Museum Presents - April 2013

Met Museum Presents – March 2013

Met Museum Launches Major Web Resource Offering Access to Hundreds of Its Publications

AXA Equitable Donates America Today, Thomas Hart Benton’s Epic Mural Cycle Celebrating Life in 1920s America, to Metropolitan Museum

Metropolitan Museum’s Main Building and Cloisters Celebrate Presidents’ Day—February 18—a "Met Holiday Monday"

Ground Formally Broken for New David H. Koch Plaza at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

(New York, January 14, 2013)—Government leaders and museum officials today formally broke ground for the new plaza and fountains at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Metropolitan Museum’s Main Building and Cloisters Observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day—January 21—a “Met Holiday Monday”

Met Museum Presents – February 2013

Metropolitan Museum’s Main Building and Cloisters Celebrate the Season with Two "Holiday Mondays"—Added Viewing Days—December 24 and 31

The Sau-Wing Lam Collection in Action:
A Four-Concert Series Featuring Rare Italian Stringed Instruments

Met Museum Presents – January 2013

Nicholas Cullinan Named Curator in Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at Metropolitan Museum

Metropolitan Museum Receives Group of Important Modern Works and Establishes Fund Supporting Its Collection of Art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas through Generous Bequests of Andrea Bollt

Marina Kellen French Elected Trustee at Metropolitan Museum

Andrew Solomon Elected Trustee at Metropolitan Museum

Marica F. Vilcek Elected Honorary Trustee at Metropolitan Museum

Met Museum Presents – December 2012

Metropolitan Museum and Cloisters to Observe Veterans Day Weekend with Free Admission for the Military on November 11 and 12

Met Museum Presents—Live Webcast of
Peony Pavilion in Updated Version by Tan Dun and Huang Doudou
Performed by Zhang Jun and the Shanghai Zhang Jun Art Center Company in Metropolitan Museum’s Astor Court Friday, November 30, 7:00 p.m.

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM TO REOPEN CLOISTERS ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM ANNOUNCES IT WILL CLOSE TO PUBLIC ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30

Met Museum Presents
November 2012

Metropolitan Museum’s Summer Exhibitions Stimulate $781 Million Economic Impact for
New York

¡Fiesta! at Metropolitan Museum Celebrates Hispanic and Latin American Cultures With Full Day of Programs and Performances
September 29, 2012

Met Holiday Mondays at Metropolitan Museum Reach 10-Year Mark This Columbus Day, October 8

Met Museum Presents
Talks, Tours, and Conversations
Fall 2012

Met Museum Presents – October 2012

The Met Reframed: DJ Spooky in Residence
Features Five Performances, Three Conversations, a Gallery Tour, and Two Workshops in the 2012-13 Season

Artist in Residence DJ Spooky to Screen Classic Korean Film Madame Freedom with Live Performance of Original Score and to Participate in a Related Talk
October 24 and 26, 2012

Met Museum Presents Free Events Complementing the Exhibition Regarding Warhol September 2012

ETHEL Named New Resident Ensemble at Metropolitan Museum’s Balcony Bar Friday and Saturday Evenings

Metropolitan Museum’s Main Building and Cloisters to be Open on Labor Day, September 3

Met Museum Presents
The Peony Pavilion, Version by Tan Dun and
Huang Doudou
Performed by Zhang Jun and the Shanghai Zhang Jun Art Center Company in The Astor Court

Met Museum Presents
Warhol Today: A Series of Talks, Tours and Performances Featuring Patti Smith, Dean & Britta, Kalup Linzy, and Others, Framing the Exhibition Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September—December 2012

Jeff Rosenheim Named Curator in Charge, and Malcolm Daniel Named Senior Curator, of Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Photographs

Pierre Terjanian Appointed Curator in Department of Arms and Armor at Metropolitan Museum

Metropolitan Museum Announces
6.28 Million Attendance

(New York, July 16, 2012)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that 6.28 million people visited the Met during the fiscal year that ended on June 30. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, is the highest recorded since the Metropolitan Museum began tracking visitor attendance more than 40 years ago. The total number of visitors was nearly 600,000 greater than in Fiscal Year 2011. 

P.S. Art 2012 Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum, Juried Display of Art by NYC Public School Students

Metropolitan Museum “Holiday Mondays” Program Expands to Include Cloisters Museum and Gardens

Two Medals and a Plaquette Returned by Metropolitan Museum to Heirs of Munich-based Art Gallery

Metropolitan Museum Creates Mobile Detective Game

Met Museum Presents
June 2012

Lecture on Cycladic and Early Greek Art at Metropolitan Museum

Gifts from Mrs. Charles Wrightsman—Antico Sculpture, Boilly Painting, Ingres Drawings, and Other Exceptional Works of Art—Enrich Metropolitan Museum’s Collection

New Audio Tour by Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas P. Campbell Highlights Masterpieces of the Collection in Eight Languages

Metropolitan Museum Announces Live Streaming from Red Carpet of Costume Institute Benefit

Metropolitan Museum Announces 2012-13 Season of Performances and Talks, Newly Renamed "Met Museum Presents"

MET MUSEUM PRESENTS
MAY 2012

Metropolitan Museum Names Early Hudson River School Gallery for Jack and Susan Warner

Metropolitan Museum to Host Panel Discussion and Performance by The Baseball Project in Celebration of the Installation Breaking the Color Barrier in Major League Baseball

Statement by The Metropolitan Museum of Art On Settlement of the Brooke Astor Estate

Metropolitan Museum’s Main Building and Cloisters Celebrate Spring Break Week with Two Met Holiday Mondays, March 25 and April 1

Metropolitan Museum Concerts & Lectures
April 2012

Metropolitan Museum Lectures
March, April, and May 2012

Newly Reframed Painting of Washington, Newly Acquired Statuette of Lincoln on View Next Met Holiday Monday—Presidents’ Day, February 20—in Met’s New American Wing

Metropolitan Museum of Art Acquires Saint-Gaudens Standing Lincoln

Lunar New Year Festival at Metropolitan Museum on February 4 Celebrates Chinese Arts and Culture

Sheena Wagstaff to Head Metropolitan Museum’s New Modern and Contemporary Art Department

Marina Kellen French Establishes Curatorship in Metropolitan Museum’s Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

J. Tomilson Hill Elected Trustee of Metropolitan Museum

Metropolitan Museum Concerts
February 2012

Metropolitan Museum Concerts
March 2012

Metropolitan Museum Enhances Online Access to Its Collections with Google Goggles

Metropolitan Museum "Holiday Mondays" Program Expands to Include Cloisters Museum and Gardens December 26 and January 2

The Cloisters museum and gardens—The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s northern Manhattan branch dedicated to the art and architecture of medieval Europe—will be open to the public on two Mondays this coming holiday season: December 26 and January 2. “Holiday Mondays at The Cloisters” represent an expansion of the Metropolitan Museum’s popular “Met Holiday Mondays,” which began in 2004. These Monday openings will provide an opportunity for the public to visit either or both of the Museum’s two locations on the Mondays of long holiday weekends when, traditionally, the Museum has been closed. The Cloisters and the Metropolitan Museum’s main building will both be open on December 26 and January 2.

Metropolitan Museum Concerts
January 2012

Metropolitan Museum to Open Renovated Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

The grand reopening of a suite of 15 dramatic New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia will take place at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on November 1. The greatly enlarged, freshly conceived, and completely renovated galleries will house the Metropolitan’s renowned collection of Islamic art—one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of this material in the world. Design features within the new space will highlight both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the numerous cultures represented here; multiple entryways will allow visitors to approach the new galleries—and the art displayed within—from different perspectives. 

Metropolitan Museum Concerts
December 2011

For tickets, visit www.metmuseum.org/tickets or call 212-570-3949. Tickets are also available at the Great Hall Box Office, which is open Tuesday-Saturday 10-5:00 and Sunday noon-5:00. Student and group discount tickets are available for some events; call 212-570-3949. Tickets include admission to the Museum on day of performance.

Metropolitan Museum to Open on October 10,
Columbus Day “Met Holiday Monday”

A diverse roster of special exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, and amenities will be open to the public at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Columbus Day, October 10—the next in the series of Met Holiday Mondays.  These are extra public viewing days that take place on the Mondays of major holiday weeks and weekends, when historically the Museum has been closed. The four popular exhibitions that will be featured this Columbus Day are: Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum; Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures; Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine; and The Art of Dissent in 17th-century China: Masterpieces of Ming Loyalist Art from the Chih Lo Lou Collection.

Metropolitan Museum Concerts
November 2011

The Alwan Arab Music Ensemble Performs at Museum's Great Hall Balcony Bar to Mark Opening of New Islamic Department Galleries; Compañia Flamenca José Porcel Performs "Gypsy Fire"; Pacifica Quartet Continues Its Beethoven Quartet Cycle; Mile Square Theater Presents "The Garden of Rikki Tikki Tavi" for Families; Chanticleer Begins Metropolitan Museum Christmas Concerts

Metropolitan Museum Launches Expanded, Redesigned Website, Providing Unprecedented Access to Collections, Programs, Research, and Visitor Information

(New York, September 26, 2011)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art has relaunched its website, www.metmuseum.org, it was announced today by Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Museum. Key features of the expanded and redesigned site include comprehensive access to more than 340,000 works of art in the Museum’s encyclopedic collections; extensive information and multimedia features on exhibitions, programs, and galleries; a completely new and streamlined design for greater ease of viewing the vast array of images, resources, and other material now online; and an interactive floor plan and multiple itineraries to enhance in-person visits to the Museum. The new website, which has been in preparation for three years, originally launched in 1996 and has not been thoroughly updated since 2000.

Metropolitan Museum’s September 26 Multicultural Benefit to Celebrate “An Evening of Many Cultures”

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s second Multicultural Benefit, “An Evening of Many Cultures,” will take place on September 26, 2011.  Among the honorees will be Samuel L. Jackson, soon to appear on Broadway as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and LaTanya Richardson Jackson; and Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro and Grace Hightower De Niro. This black-tie gala is the signature event in celebration of the Museum’s Multicultural Audience Development Initiative (MADI), founded in 1998.

Metropolitan Museum’s McQueen, Caro, Serra, and “Rooms with a View” Exhibitions Stimulate $908 Million Economic Impact for New York

(New York, September 12, 2011)—The Metropolitan Museum’s concurrent presentation of four acclaimed and widely attended exhibitions in the summer 2011 season—Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty; Anthony Caro on the Roof; Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective; and Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century—generated $908 million in spending by regional, national, and international tourists to New York, according to a visitor survey the Museum released today. Using the industry standard for calculating tax revenue impact, the study found that the direct tax benefit to the City and State from out-of-town visitors to the Museum totaled some $90.8 million. (Results of visitor survey are below.)

661,509 Total Visitors to Alexander McQueen Put Retrospective among Top 10 Most Visited Exhibitions in Metropolitan Museum’s History

661,509 Total Visitors to Alexander McQueen Put Retrospective among Top 10 Most Visited Exhibitions in Metropolitan Museum’s History

Berlin Lends Colossal Statue of Pharaoh to
Metropolitan Museum for Ten Years

A monumental ancient Egyptian statue of a seated pharaoh—probably Amenemhat II—will be lent to The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Berlin’s renowned Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz for a period of ten years, beginning this month. The ten-foot-tall, nearly nine-ton, 4,000-year-old sculpture entered the Berlin museum’s collection in 1837. Because of a construction project now underway—to renovate the courtyard on Museumsinsel (Museum Island) where the artwork has most recently been displayed—the statue had to be moved, thereby providing the opportunity for this long-term loan. The sculpture will go on view in the Metropolitan’s Great Hall for approximately one year before it is moved into The Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art. The Middle Kingdom sculpture is an outstanding example of ancient Egypt’s magnificent colossal statuary, of which very few examples can be found in American museums.

Metropolitan Museum Announces 5.68 Million Attendance, Highest in 40 Years

(New York, July 21, 2011)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that 5.68 million people visited the Met during the fiscal year that ended on June 30. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, is the highest recorded in 40 years.  The total was more than 400,000 greater than in Fiscal Year 2010.

Next Met Holiday Monday on Memorial Day, May 30, Provides Additional Opportunity to Visit Highly Popular Exhibitions Alexander McQueen, Guitar Heroes, Rooms with a View

Schedule of Upcoming Holiday Mondays Announced