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• Metropolitan Museum Adds New "Spring Break" Holiday to Roster of Met Holiday Mondays

  Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Guitar Heroes and Other Special Exhibitions on View Monday, April 25

• Rare Medieval Hebrew Manuscript to be Displayed at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, March 17, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  The Washington Haggadah—one of the most important illustrated Hebrew manuscripts preserved in an American public collection and an unprecedented loan from the Library of Congress—will be shown at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning April 5, to coincide with the observance of Passover later that month. A Haggadah is the book used at the Passover seder, the ritual meal that commemorates the exodus of the ancient Israelites from Egypt. Although the essential components of the text were established in the second century, the Haggadah was first made into an independent, illustrated book in the Middle Ages. The manuscript will remain on view through June 26.

• After the Gold Rush at Metropolitan Museum Features Contemporary Photographs from the Collection
  March 22, 2011 – January 2, 2012

  Monday, March 7, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

   

• Irish Singer-Songwriter Duke Special Debuts Original Songs at Metropolitan Museum Inspired by Photographs in Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand

  Sunday, March 6, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  Irish musical sensation Duke Special will debut all-new songs on March 24, 2011, at 7 p.m. in a performance presented by Spectrum at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this concert conceived specifically for the Met, Duke Special has been inspired by the Museum's current exhibition Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand, which features masterpieces of photography from the early 20th century. Duke Special's signature atmospheric sound will take listeners back to a bygone era of steam trains, tycoons, grandes dames, and artists—a world of foggy city streets and tranquil country scenes.

• Richard Serra's First Retrospective Exhibition of Drawings Opens at Metropolitan Museum on April 13

  Thursday, March 3, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  The first retrospective of the drawings of American contemporary artist Richard Serra will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 13, 2011, through August 28, 2011. Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective traces the crucial role that drawing has played in Richard Serra's work for more than 40 years. Although Serra is well known for his large-scale and site-specific sculptures, his work has also changed the practice of drawing. This major exhibition will show how Serra's work has expanded the definition of drawing through innovative techniques, unusual media, monumental scale, and carefully conceived relationships to surrounding spaces. The exhibition, which includes many loans from important European and American collections, features 43 drawings and 28 sketchbooks from the 1970s to the present, as well as four films by the artist and a new, large-scale work completed specifically for this presentation.

• Exhibition of Magnificent Andean Tunics on View at Metropolitan Museum Beginning March 8

  Monday, February 28, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a special exhibition focusing on the Andean tunic, beginning March 8. Featuring some 30 tunics drawn from the Museum's collection with loans from The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., The Cleveland Museum of Art, and two private collections, The Andean Tunic, 400 BCE – 1800 CE, will examine the form of the tunic, essentially a type of shirt, which had an important cultural place in Andean South America for centuries. Textiles, a much developed art form there in ancient times, were themselves valued as wealth, and tunics were among the most treasured of them.

• Met Museum's New Installation Positions African Masks with Works by Modern and Contemporary Artists from Africa, Europe, and U.S.
  March 8 - August 21, 2011

  Monday, February 28, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

   

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  April 2011

  Monday, February 28, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  Chanticleer's Monteverdi, Mahler, and New Works by Mason Bates & Erika Lloyd, Pianists Paul Lewis and Jon Nakamatsu in Recital, Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert, Musicians from Marlboro, Steve Ross's Tribute to Fred Astaire, and John Lithgow's Children's Program

• Metropolitan Museum's 2011 Series of "Met Holiday Mondays" to Continue with Presidents' Day, Feb. 21

  Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art continues its popular "Met Holiday Mondays" program by opening the doors of its main building to the public on Presidents' Day, February 21. (The next Met Holiday Monday will be April 25, during spring break week.)

• Paul Ruddock Elected a Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Monday, February 7, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  Paul Ruddock has been elected to the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced today by James R. Houghton, the Museum's Chairman. The election took place at the January 11 meeting of the Board of Trustees.

• Guitar Heroes Exhibition, Opening February 9, to Feature Extraordinary Instruments Created by Three Legendary Modern-day Master Craftsmen

  Thursday, February 3, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  Three New York master luthiers, renowned for their hand-carved stringed instruments—particularly their archtop guitars, which have been sought after by many of the most important guitarists of the last century—will be the subject of Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from February 9 through July 4, 2011. Featuring the extraordinary guitars of John D'Angelico, James D'Aquisto, and John Monteleone, this unprecedented exhibition of approximately 80 musical instruments will focus on the work of these modern-day master craftsmen and their roots in a long tradition of stringed instrument-making that has thrived for more than 400 years and that was first brought to New York from Italy around the turn of the 20th century.

• Cézanne's Card Players Series United in Landmark Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum

  Wednesday, February 2, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  Cézanne's Card Players, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning February 9, 2011, will unite works from the famous series by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), bringing together a majority of the related paintings, oil studies, and drawings. A select group of portraits of peasants, several of whom appear in the Card Players compositions, will also be included in this landmark exhibition, the first devoted to the subject. Created in the 1890s while the artist was living at his family's estate outside Aix-en-Provence, these images capture the character Cézanne admired in the people of the region. Together the works chart the development of the series as Cézanne strove to achieve the most powerful expression of his motif.

• International Loan Exhibition of Forbidden City Treasures Goes on View at Metropolitan Museum February 1

  Sunday, January 30, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  "When China's last emperor, Puyi, left the Forbidden City in 1924, the doors closed on a secluded compound of pavilions and gardens deep within the palace. Filled with exquisite objects personally commissioned by the Qianlong emperor, the complex of lavish buildings and thoughtful landscaping lay dormant for decades."
  —From Juanqinzhai in the Qianlong Garden, The Forbidden City, Beijing

• 大都會藝術博物館於二月五日舉辦春節迎新活動弘揚中國文化藝術

  Thursday, January 27, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  活動日期： 2011 年二月五日， 星期六 活動時間： 上午11 時 至 下午 4 時 地點： 曼哈頓 第五大道輿82街，大都會藝術博物館 大都會藝術博物館歡迎不同年齡的訪客在 2011年二月五日來參加慶祝中國文化藝術，迎接農曆新年的全天全館歡慶活動。本博物館迎兔年活動包括一系列互動節目、手工藝製作活動以及豐富多彩的演出。只需憑本館入場券，這些新年節目幾乎全部免費。

• Steve Miller & Friends - Including Jim Hall, Howard Alden, and Bucky Pizzarelli - Perform "Celebrating the Jazz Guitar" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Saturday, February 12, 2011

  Monday, January 24, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  Concert is presented in Conjunction with the Exhibition
  Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York
  February 9 – July 4, 2011

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  March 2011

  Sunday, January 23, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  Nelson Freire and Nicholas Angelich on the PianoForte Recital Series, John Pizzarelli, and Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks; Tango Buenos Aires, David Dubal on Paganini, Liszt, and Wagner; and Gilbert Kaplan Asks "Did New York Kill Gustav Mahler?"

• Lunar New Year Festival at Metropolitan Museum on February 5 Celebrates Chinese Arts and Culture

  Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  Visitors of all ages are invited to The Metropolitan Museum of Art on February 5, 2011, to enjoy a day-long Lunar New Year Festival celebrating Chinese arts and culture. The Museum will ring in the Year of the Rabbit with interactive programs, art-making workshops, and lively performances. Nearly all Lunar New Year programs are free with Museum admission.

• SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS

  Monday, January 17, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: Information provided below is subject to change. To confirm scheduling and dates, call the Communications Department at (212) 570-3951. CONTACT NUMBER FOR USE IN TEXT IS (212) 535-7710.

• Sculptural Installations by Contemporary Icelandic Artist Katrin Sigurdardottir on View October 19 at Metropolitan Museum

  Monday, January 17, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  Katrin Sigurdardottir at the Met is an exhibition of two new sculptural installations created specifically for the Metropolitan by Sigurdardottir, an Icelandic artist (born in 1967), who lives and works in New York City and Reykjavik. Sigurdardottir is known for her highly detailed renditions of places, both real and fictional, that often incorporate an element of surprise.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  February 2011

  Monday, January 17, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  Paul Lewis and Lise de la Salle Continue the PianoForte Recital Series; Itzhak Perlman Performs with Members of the Perlman Music Program; Steve Miller Plays Jazz, Classical Guitarist Odair Assad Performs in Recital; Pacifica Quartet Continues with Shostakovich; and Chinese Theatre Works Performs Little Red Riding Hood

• 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.

• 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."

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• Metropolitan Museum's Exhibitions Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú, and American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity Stimulate $784 Million Economic Impact for City

  Monday, December 13, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  (New York, December 14, 2010)—The Metropolitan Museum's concurrent presentation of three acclaimed and widely attended special exhibitions over the summer 2010 season—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú, and American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity—generated $784 million in economic activity 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 noted that the direct tax benefit to the City and State from out-of-town visitors to the Museum totaled some $78.4 million. (Study findings below.)

• New Installation Thinking Outside the Box to Feature Cabinets, Caskets, and Cases from Metropolitan Museum's Collection

  Thursday, December 2, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  Thinking Outside the Box: European Cabinets, Caskets, and Cases from the Permanent Collection (1500–1900)—on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning December 7, 2010— will feature 100 works selected from the Museum's Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. The objects featured in this installation will range from strongboxes to travel cases and from containers for tea or tobacco to storage boxes for toiletries or silverware. These lidded pieces, some of which have not been on display for many years, are made in a large variety of shapes and sizes, and of many different materials, and were created by mostly unknown artists, craftsmen, and amateurs. Viewed together, these works reflect changes in social customs as well as the evolution of styles over four centuries. Many are precious works of art that were collected in their own right.

• Gifts Enhance Metropolitan Museum's Scholarly Activities in Cycladic and Early Greek Art

  Thursday, December 2, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  Endowment Fund to Support Lecture Series; Photo Archive to Be Made Available to Researchers

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  January 2011

  Monday, November 29, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  The PianoForte Recital Series Continues with Frederic Chiu's "Monument to Beethoven," Pacifica Quartet Continues Its Shostakovich Cycle, Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert Plays Purcell, Berio, Kancheli & Beethoven, Cirène, an Ensemble of Young New York Stars, Performs a Children's Program, and Steve Ross Sings Noël Coward

• Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum

  Tuesday, November 23, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the most important collection of paintings in America by the celebrated Dutch artist Frans Hals (1582/83-1666), whose portraits and genre scenes were famous in his lifetime for their immediacy and dazzling brushwork. Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum —on view from July 26, through October 10, 2011—will present 13 paintings by Hals, including two lent from private collections, and several works by other Netherlandish masters.

• E. Gilliéron & Son's Reproductions of Art from Greek Bronze Age on View at Metropolitan Museum

  Sunday, November 21, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  Astonishing archaeological discoveries made during the extraordinarily successful excavations of Heinrich Schliemann at the ancient Greek site of Mycenae in 1876 and of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos on Crete, beginning in 1900, stirred popular interest in archaeology in the early 20th century and helped create a demand among museums and private collectors for high-quality replicas of antiquities from the newly identified Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. Opening May 17 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son focuses on the work of Swiss-born Émile Gilliéron (1850–1924) and his son—also named Émile (1885–1939)—who were among the foremost art restorers of their time. Their work influenced the study of Aegean art and was integral to its widespread introduction throughout Europe and America.

• Schedule of Exhibitions Through July 2016

  Friday, November 19, 2010, 4:00 p.m.

• Schedule of Exhibitions Through July 2016

  Thursday, November 18, 2010, 4:00 p.m.

• Schedule of Exhibitions Through July 2016

  Thursday, November 18, 2010, 4:00 p.m.

• Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche on Display for Holiday Season at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, November 18, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  The Christmas tree and Neapolitan Baroque crèche at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a long-standing yuletide tradition in New York, will be on view for the holiday season, November 23, 2010, through January 6, 2011. The brightly lit, 20-foot blue spruce—with a collection of 18th-century Neapolitan angels and cherubs hovering among its boughs and groups of realistic crèche figures flanking the Nativity scene at its base—will once again delight holiday visitors in the Museum's Medieval Sculpture Hall. Set in front of the 18th-century Spanish choir screen from the Cathedral of Valladolid, with recorded Christmas music in the background and daily lighting ceremonies, the installation reflects the spirit of the holiday season.

• Magnificent Tibetan Rugs and Ritual Utensils Now on View at Metropolitan Museum

  Monday, November 15, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  Rugs and Ritual in Tibetan Buddhism, an installation dedicated to ritual practice in Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism, explores the role of the ritual objects that were employed by its practitioners in pursuit of spiritual enlightenment. Comprising 30 tantric ritual rugs and utensils—including knives, vessel, fire-offering ladles, ritual staff, daggers, offering table—the installation illustrates an esoteric Buddhism that flourished in Tibet from its beginnings in the eighth century through to the 20th century. While many of the objects on view—depicting gruesome images such as exposed brains in skull cups and flayed human skins—may be shocking to those unfamiliar with the meaning and purpose of Tibetan religious art, the deployment of these objects celebrates the power of detachment from the corporeal body that advanced Buddhist practitioners strive to attain. The installation features Tibetan rugs and ritual utensils from the collection of Anthony d'Offay, London, together with New York-based loans and works from the Museum's own collection.

• Metropolitan Museum Lectures
  January and February 2011

  Sunday, November 14, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  For tickets, call the Concerts & Lectures Department at 212-570-3949 or visit www.metmuseum.org/tickets, where updated schedules and programs (including additional lectures that are free with Museum admission) are available. Tickets are also available at the Great Hall Box Office, which is open Tuesday–Saturday 10–5:00, and Sunday noon–5:00. Student discount tickets are available for some events; call 212-570-3949.

• Metropolitan Museum and Egyptian Government Announce Initiative to Recognize Egypt's Title to 19 Objects Originally from Tutankhamun's Tomb

  Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  (New York, November 10, 2010)—Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, announced jointly today that, effective immediately, the Museum will acknowledge Egypt's title to 19 ancient Egyptian objects in its collection since early in the 20th century. All of these small-scale objects, which range from study samples to a three-quarter-inch-high bronze dog and a sphinx bracelet-element, can be attributed with certainty to Tutankhamun's tomb, which was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings. The Museum initiated this formal acknowledgment after renewed, in-depth research by two of its curators substantiated the history of the objects.

• Mark Polizzotti Named Publisher & Editor in Chief at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  (New York, November 10, 2010)—Mark Polizzotti has been appointed Publisher and Editor in Chief at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he will oversee all aspects of the Museum's scholarly publishing program, it was announced today by Director Thomas P. Campbell. Mr. Polizzotti is currently Director of Intellectual Property and Publisher at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He will begin work at the Metropolitan Museum on November 15.

• Metropolitan Museum to Undertake Major Redesign and Reconstruction of its Fifth Avenue Outdoor Plaza and Fountains

  Monday, November 8, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  Retains Landscape Architect OLIN Studio to Lead Effort

• Metropolitan Museum Presents Exhibition on Haremhab, Ancient Egyptian General Who Became Pharaoh

  Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  One of the most fascinating pharaohs of ancient Egypt, Haremhab (reigned ca. 1316–1302 B. C.) was a strong leader in a time of political and religious transition. As commander-in-chief of Tutankhamun's army, he oversaw important military campaigns at the border with Nubia and in the Levant; later, as the last king of Dynasty 18, Haremhab instituted laws that secured the rights of civilians and curbed abuses perpetrated by powerful groups, including the army. A statue that was created before he became king shows the general as a scribe and thus an administrator and wise man. This statue—the most famous three-dimensional image of Haremhab—is the focus of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition Haremhab, The General Who Became King, opening November 16. The display will feature some 70 additional objects in various media—wall reliefs, works on papyrus, statuettes, and garment fragments—from the holdings of the Metropolitan, with the addition of a pivotal loan from the Louvre and another from a New York private collection. Haremhab, The General Who Became King is the inaugural presentation in a series of exhibitions that will spotlight masterpieces from the Museum's collection of Egyptian art.

• Three Masters of 20th-Century Photography Featured in Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand at Metropolitan Museum

  Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Three giants of 20th-century American photography—Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Paul Strand—will be featured at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from November 10, 2010, through April 10, 2011, in the exhibition Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand. The diverse and groundbreaking work of these artists will be revealed through a presentation of 115 photographs, drawn entirely from the Museum's collection. On view will be many of the Metropolitan's greatest photographic treasures from the 1900s to 1920s, including Stieglitz's famous portraits of Georgia O'Keeffe, Steichen's large colored photographs of the Flatiron building, and Strand's pioneering abstractions.

• Metropolitan Museum Lectures
  November and December 2010

  Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Wednesday, November 3, at 11 a.m. – Art History 201: Masterpieces of World Art, Era of Impressionism. This series, presented by Janetta Rebold Benton, Pace University Distinguished Professor of Art History, offers insight into global masterpieces of architecture, sculpture, and painting created from prehistory to our own day. This fall, the artistic styles known as Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Art Nouveau in Western Europe (approximately 1800 to 1900) are studied and compared with contemporaneous creations throughout the world. The six-part series, which began on October 6, continues with Post-Impressionism: Van Gogh and Gauguin; Menier Chocolate Factory in England and Eiffel Tower in France; Oceanic Art; Puebla Ceramics; and Architecture of H. H. Richardson in New England.
  Single tickets: $25

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  December 2010

  Monday, October 25, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  New York Philharmonic CONTACT! Program Features World & U.S. Premieres, Pacifica Quartet Continues Its Shostakovich Project,Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert Performs Beethoven, Berio, and Gideon Klein,Jazz Pianist Bill Charlap and Song Stylist Sandy Stewart – Mother & Son – Perform, and Christmas Concerts Feature Chanticleer, Anonymous 4, Inspirational Voices of the Abyssinian, Lionheart, and Burning River Brass

• Egyptian Art

  Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The Department of Egyptian Art was established in 1906 to oversee The Metropolitan Museum of Art's ancient Egyptian collection, which had been growing since 1874. Today, after more than a century of collecting and excavating, the collection has become one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world.