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• 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.

• MetFridays del Museo Metropolitano
  se enfocará en la cultura de América Latina
  el 18 de septiembre

  Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 6:00 a.m.

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

  Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

• 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.
  

• 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

  Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Schedule of Upcoming Holiday Mondays Announced

• 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.

• Rarely Seen 18th-Century Pastel Portraits on View in New Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, May 12, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Pastel quite suddenly became popular throughout Europe in the 18th century, so much so that, by 1750, some 2,500 artists and amateurs were working in pastel in Paris alone. Portraits in pastel were commissioned by all ranks of society, but most enthusiastically by the royal families, their courtiers, and the wealthy middle classes. Although pastel is a drawing material, 18th-century pastel portraits are often highly finished, quite large, brightly colored, and elaborately framed, evoking oil paintings, the medium to which they were invariably compared. The powdery pastel crayons are particularly suited to capturing the fleeting expressions that characterize the most life-like portraits.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces 2011-2012 Concert Season

  Thursday, May 12, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  58th Season Features Artists Ranging from Jordi Savall, Thomas Hampson,
  Tenet, and the Pacifica Quartet to Angelique Kidjo, Patti Smith, and
  Kayhan Kalhor

• Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney Announce Collaborative Agreement for Breuer Building

  Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, May 11, 2011)—The directors of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that their boards of trustees have agreed in principle to a multiple-year collaboration projected to begin in 2015, when the Whitney opens its new museum facility on Gansevoort Street in downtown Manhattan. The Metropolitan Museum plans to present exhibitions and educational programming at the Whitney's landmark building at 945 Madison Avenue, which was designed by Marcel Breuer, for a period of eight years, with the possibility of extending the agreement for a longer term. The two museums will seek to collaborate on collections sharing, publications, and other educational activities.

• Anna Wintour Becomes an Elective Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, May 10, 2011)—Anna Wintour has been named an Elective Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced today by James R. Houghton, the Museum's Chairman. Ms. Wintour's election took place at the May 10 meeting of the Board.

• Spring and Summer Attractions in the Gardens at The Cloisters

  Monday, May 9, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Garden Days—an annual weekend of programming devoted to the acclaimed and popular plantings at The Cloisters Museum and Gardens—will take place on June 4 and 5. Many of the herbs and flowers in the three enclosed gardens at The Cloisters—the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art dedicated to the art and architecture of medieval Europe—are at their peak in late spring and early summer. Located on a hilltop in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan, The Cloisters museum and gardens enjoy an unparalleled view of the Hudson River and the New Jersey Palisades from several vantage points.

• Daniel Brodsky Elected to Succeed James R. Houghton as Chairman of the Metropolitan Museum's Board of Trustees

  Monday, May 9, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, May 10, 2011)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the election of business and civic leader Daniel Brodsky, a Trustee of the institution since 2001, as its next Chairman of the Board. Mr. Brodsky will officially assume the chairmanship on September 13, when James R. Houghton retires from the post after 13 years to become a Trustee Emeritus.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  June 2011

  Sunday, May 8, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Shen Wei Dance Arts' New Site-Specific Work for the American Wing,
  U.S. Premiere of Philip Glass's String Quartet No. 5,
  William Bolcom, Joan Morris, Robert White, and Memories of World War II, and
  Steve Miller's Encore Evening of Jazz

• Shen Wei Dance Arts to Create a Site-Specific Dance Work in The Charles Engelhard Court in the American Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art June 6 & 13, 2011

  Sunday, May 8, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  The Metropolitan Museum's First Site-Specific Dance Work

• Sam Waterston, Brian Murray, Star June 20 and 27 at the Metropolitan Museum in Staged Readings of Brenson-Duveen Drama, The Old Masters

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

  (New York, May 5, 2011)—Simon Gray's intense drama of friendship, ethics, and doom involving two leading luminaries of the pre-World War II European art world—The Old Masters—will be revived for an exclusive, two-evenings-only staged reading at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on consecutive Mondays, June 20 and June 27, at 7 p.m.

• Patti and Everett B. Birch Foundation Funds Two New Galleries and Education Programs at Metropolitan Museum

  Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Emphasis on Islamic Culture of Morocco, Spain, North Africa, and Western Mediterranean Honors Memory of Longtime Supporter Patti Cadby Birch

• Met Celebrates Senses of Springtime with Family Festival Highlighting Art and Culture from the Islamic World and the Ancient Near East
  Sunday, April 28, 2013

  Monday, April 25, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

• 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.

• Exposition commémorant le centenaire du célèbre
  Cabinet des estampes des conservateurs fondateurs
  du Met Museum

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