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Eclectic Centennial Exhibition of 1910s Photography,"Our Future Is In The Air," on View at Metropolitan Museum Beginning November 10
Thursday, January 13, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
The 1910s—a period remembered for "The Great War," Einstein's theory of relativity, the Russian Revolution, and the birth of Hollywood—was a dynamic and tumultuous decade that ushered in the modern era. This new age—as it was captured by the quintessentially modern art of photography—will be the subject of the exhibition
"Our Future Is In The Air": Photographs from the 1910s, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from November 10, 2010, through April 10, 2011.
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Metropolitan Museum Observes Martin Luther King Jr. Day—January 17—as "Met Holiday Monday"
Thursday, January 13, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
(New York, January 14)—Galleries, shops, and dining facilities at The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be open to the public on January 17 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day), the next in the series of popular "Met Holiday Mondays."
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Original Color Photographs by Stieglitz and Steichen on View at Metropolitan Museum for One Week Only, January 25-30
Tuesday, January 11, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
For the first time in more than 25 years, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will display five of its original Autochromes by Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz for one week only—January 25-30, 2011—as part of the current exhibition Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand. Invented by Auguste and Louis Lumière in 1907, Autochromes are one-of-a-kind color transparencies that are seductively beautiful when backlit.
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James C. Y. Watt to Become Curator Emeritus After Decade Leading Department of Asian Art and Distinguished 25-Year Tenure at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Monday, January 10, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
Maxwell K. Hearn to Become the Douglas Dillon Curator in Charge of the Department
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Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Make $10 Million Gift to Launch the Renovation of the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute
Monday, January 10, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
(New York, January 11, 2011)—A landmark gift of $10 million to The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch will support the creation of a major exhibition space within its Costume Institute. This gift will allow the Museum to proceed, beginning in 2012, with the complete renovation of its costume-related exhibition galleries, study collection, and conservation center, it was announced today by Thomas P. Campbell, Director of the Museum.
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美国大都会博物馆服装艺术部2015年春季特展
Saturday, January 8, 2011, 8:00 p.m.
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Metropolitan Museum Concerts Announces
Additions to its Spring 2011 Season
Monday, January 3, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
• Shen Wei Dance Arts Creates Dance Inspired by Sculpture in the American Wing
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Metropolitan Museum Launches Connections Series of Online Episodes Featuring Museum Staff
Monday, January 3, 2011, 5:00 a.m.
On January 5, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will launch Connections, a new online interactive feature that highlights the perspectives and insights of Museum staff on works of art in the Metropolitan's collection.
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Metropolitan Museum Celebrates the Holidays by Opening on "Holiday Monday" December 27
Sunday, December 19, 2010, 5:00 a.m.
Galleries, Exhibitions Open to the Public on Monday of
Christmas/New Year's Week
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Restored Renaissance Masterpiece on View in New Installation at Metropolitan Museum
Monday, December 13, 2010, 5:00 a.m.
Filippino Lippi (1457-1504) is one of the great artists of 15th-century Florence. Among his principal patrons was the wealthy banker Filippo Strozzi (1428–1491), who in 1487 contracted the artist to decorate his funerary chapel in Santa Maria Novella with an outstanding cycle of frescoes. Around the same time, Strozzi also commissioned a Madonna and Child for his villa at Santuccio, west of the city. This work was acquired from the Duveen firm in 1928 by Jules Bache and was bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum in 1949. In preparation for an exhibition on the artist that will be held in Rome next year, the picture was taken to conservation for examination this fall. A test cleaning revealed that beneath a thick, discolored varnish there was a beautifully preserved, richly colored painting. It emerged that the varnish had been artificially toned to create an almost monochromatic appearance—an amber-colored uniformity that conformed to the idea of how an Old Master should appear. So striking is the transformation that the picture seems a new acquisition.