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• Metropolitan Museum Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Korea’s Ministry of Culture and Ministry Announces Major Gift to Support
  Korean Art Initiatives at the Museum

  Thursday, December 10, 2015, 7:18 p.m.

  English | 한국어
  

• The Grand Tour: Asia Continues in the Asian Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Tuesday, November 24, 2015, 4:13 p.m.

  English | 中国

• Design for Eternity: Architectural Models
  from the Ancient Americas

  Monday, November 16, 2015, 1:48 p.m.

  October 26, 2015–September 18, 2016
  English | Español

• Manus x Machina:
  Fashion in an Age of Technology

  Monday, November 16, 2015, 1:45 p.m.

  May 5–September 5, 2016 (extended from August 14)
  

• Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs

  Monday, November 16, 2015, 1:13 p.m.

  April 27, 2016–July 24, 2016
  العربية | Deutsch | Français | Italiano | فارسی | Русский | Türkmençe | Türkçe
  

• Pergamon and the Hellenistic Kingdoms
  of the Ancient World

  Monday, November 16, 2015, 1:12 p.m.

  April 18–July 17, 2016
  ελληνικά

• The Power of Prints: The Legacy of
  William M. Ivins and A. Hyatt Mayor

  Monday, November 16, 2015, 1:08 p.m.

  January 26–May 22, 2016
  deutsch | español | français | italiano
  

• Reconstructions: Recent Photographs and
  Video from The Met Collection

  Monday, November 16, 2015, 1:01 p.m.

  September 21, 2015–March 13, 2016

• Kongo: Power and Majesty

  Monday, November 16, 2015, 6:00 a.m.

  September 18, 2015–January 3, 2016
  English | Français | Português

• 815,992 Visitors to Costume Institute’s China Exhibition Make It Fifth Most Visited Exhibition in Metropolitan Museum’s History

  Tuesday, September 8, 2015, 4:33 p.m.

  English | 中国

• Metropolitan Museum’s MetFridays
  to Focus on Latin American Culture
  on September 18

  Wednesday, September 2, 2015, 12:45 p.m.

  English | Español

• China: Through the Looking Glass Exhibition Extended through September 7 at Metropolitan Museum

  Tuesday, June 30, 2015, 7:35 p.m.

  English | 中国
  

• Celebrating Asian Art through Performance in Spring Season of Met Museum Presents

  Monday, March 2, 2015, 4:00 p.m.

  English | 中国

• Advance Details about Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Spring Exhibition, China: Through the Looking Glass, Announced at the Palace Museum in China

  Thursday, January 8, 2015, 1:00 p.m.

  English | 中国

• China: Through the Looking Glass

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:12 a.m.

  May 7–September 7, 2015 (Extended)

  English | 中国

• Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:52 a.m.

  October 20, 2014—February 16, 2015

• Assyria to Iberia at the Dawn of the Classical Age
  September 22, 2014–January 4, 2015

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:37 a.m.

  English | العربية |ελληνικά | español | français | italiano 

• Metropolitan Museum Launches 82nd & Fifth App in 12 Languages, Based on Award-Winning Online Series Featuring 100 Works of Art and 100 Curators They Inspired

  Thursday, August 7, 2014, 4:00 a.m.

  Press release available in these languages:
  
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• Iria Candela and Beatrice Galilee Appointed to New Curatorships Endowed by Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky within Met’s Modern and Contemporary Art Department

  Friday, July 11, 2014, 2:11 p.m.

  english | português | español
  

• Metropolitan Museum Launches New Interactive Web Feature One Met. Many Worlds. in 11 Languages

  Wednesday, June 11, 2014, 5:00 p.m.

  Press release available in these languages:

  English | العربية | 中文 | français | deutsch | italiano | 日本語 | 한국어 | português | русский | español

• Iria Candela y Beatrice Galilee asumirán nuevas curadurías auspiciadas por Daniel y Estrellita Brodsky en el Departamento de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo del Metropolitan

  Tuesday, February 4, 2014, 5:00 a.m.

  english | português | español 
  

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

  Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  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
  December 2011

  Monday, October 31, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  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”

  Thursday, October 6, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

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

  Monday, September 26, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

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

  Monday, September 12, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  (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.)

• Mother India at Metropolitan Museum Features Depictions of the Goddess in Indian Painting

  Friday, July 1, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Devi, the Indian goddess, is the omnipresent embodiment of power and wisdom given expression in all of India’s ancient religions. From the beginnings of figurative representation in early India, she has been the frequent subject of sculpture and a favored subject in later devotional painting. Mother India: The Goddess in Indian Painting, to be presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from June 29 through November 27, 2011, will feature 40 works from the Museum’s collection that depict Devi in all her various aspects. Perhaps the most widely worshipped deity in all India, Devi stands alongside Shiva and Vishnu in the first rank of the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain pantheons.

• Alexander McQueen's Iconic Designs in Costume Institute Retrospective at Metropolitan Museum

  Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  The spring 2011 Costume Institute exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, is on view May 4 through August 7 (new, extended closing date). The exhibition celebrates the late Mr. McQueen's extraordinary contributions to fashion. From his Central Saint Martins postgraduate collection in 1992 to his final runway presentation, which took place after his death in February 2010, Mr. McQueen challenged and expanded our understanding of fashion beyond utility to a conceptual expression of culture, politics, and identity.
  

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts Celebrate the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

  Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Throughout the 2011–12 season, Metropolitan Museum Concerts will present an array of events in which a diverse selection of artists will perform music from, or inspired by, the regions and cultures represented in the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, opening November 1, 2011.

• SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS
  MAY 2011 - JANUARY 2012

  Monday, May 16, 2011, 4:00 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.

• Metropolitan Museum Lectures in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
  May and June 2011

  Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 4:00 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.

• Sculptures by Renowned British Artist Anthony Caro on View at Metropolitan Museum April 26

  Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Sculptures by Anthony Caro (b. 1924)—who is considered the most influential and prolific British sculptor of his generation, and a key figure in the development of modernist sculpture over the last 60 years—will be featured in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2011 installation on The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, opening April 26. The installation will include a selection of sculpture in steel, painted and unpainted, spanning the artist's career to date and highlighting principal aspects of his long career: engagement with form in space, dialogue between sculpture and architecture, and creation of new, abstract analogies for the human figure and landscape.

• Korean Ceramics from the Leeum Collection on View at Metropolitan Museum

  Monday, March 28, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  A special loan exhibition focusing on the dynamic art of buncheong ceramics will go on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 7.  Featuring more than 60 masterpieces from the renowned collection of Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea—the majority of which have never before been seen in the U.S.—Poetry in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art will explore the bold and startlingly modern ceramic tradition that flourished in Korea during the 15th and 16th centuries of the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910), as well as its eloquent reinterpretations by today's leading ceramists.

• Rooms with a View, First Exhibition to Focus on Motif of the Open Window in 19th Century Art, at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, March 24, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  During the Romantic era, the open window appeared either as the sole subject or the main feature in many pictures of interiors that were filled with a poetic play of light and perceptible silence. Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 5 through July 4, 2011, is the first exhibition to focus on this motif as captured by German, Danish, French, and Russian artists around 1810–20. Works in the exhibition range from the initial appearance of the motif in two sepia drawings of about 1805–06 by Caspar David Friedrich to paintings of luminous empty rooms from the late 1840s by Adolph Menzel. The show features 31 oil paintings and 26 works on paper, and consists mostly of generous loans from museums in Germany, Denmark, France, Italy, Austria, Sweden, and the United States.

• Night Vision at Metropolitan Museum Features 20th-Century Photography Made After Dark

  Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Night Vision: Photography After Dark, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 26 through September 18, 2011, will feature photography of the 20th century inspired by the pleasure, danger, and allure of the night. For more than 100 years photographers have been drawn to the challenge of making images after dark, capturing the aesthetic effects of nighttime rain, early-morning fog, shining street lamps, and dimly lit rooms. Modern camera artists have been captivated by glowing skyscrapers, dazzling neon signs, glittering nightlife, and the shadowy realm of the nocturnal underworld. Highlights of the Metropolitan's exhibition include classic night photography of the 1930s-1950s by Berenice Abbott, Bill Brandt, Brassaï, Robert Frank, André Kertész, William Klein, Weegee, and Garry Winogrand, as well as three early photographs by Diane Arbus that have never been shown or published before, and recently acquired photographs by Peter Hujar and Kohei Yoshiyuki.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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'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.

• 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.

• 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 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

• Views and Souvenirs from the Grand Tour Assembled in New Installation at Metropolitan Museum

  Sunday, October 17, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  In the 18th century, privileged Europeans embarked on the Grand Tour, traveling principally to sites in Italy, where they visited cherished ruins of the ancient world and the splendid architecture of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. The influx of these travelers to destinations north and south – Venice, Rome, and Naples in particular – led to a flowering of topographical paintings, drawings, and prints by native Italians serving a foreign market eager to return home with pictures and souvenirs. Italy Observed: Views and Souvenirs, 1706-1899, currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum through January 2, 2011, showcases a selection of the rich holdings of Italian vedute (views) collected by Robert Lehman. From paintings of Venetian life by Luca Carlevaris to a Neapolitan album of gouache drawings documenting the eruption of Vesuvius in 1794 to sketches and watercolors of Italian antiquities, the installation captures the artist's romantic attraction to Italy and its irresistible Roman heritage. It also includes various marketed souvenirs—exquisite fans, spoons, teapots, and pocket watches—on loan from the Museum's Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts.

• Contemporary Artist John Baldessari's Groundbreaking Work Featured in Major Retrospective at Metropolitan Museum

  Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Widely renowned as a pioneer of conceptual art, American artist John Baldessari (b. 1931, National City, California) is one of the most influential contemporary artists of the last 50 years. John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, the first major U.S. exhibition in 20 years to survey Baldessari's career, will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from October 20, 2010, through January 9, 2011. This retrospective will feature approximately 120 works spanning the period from 1962 to 2010.