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• Metropolitan Museum Announces
  Record-breaking 6.3 Million
  Annual Attendance

  Tuesday, July 28, 2015, 2:03 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Celebrates 25th Anniversary of
  Americans with Disabilities Act by Hosting Special
  Events to Honor Creativity and Accessibility

  Wednesday, July 15, 2015, 8:46 p.m.

• Celebrate a Summer of American Art—Independence Day through Labor Day—at Metropolitan Museum

  Wednesday, July 1, 2015, 8:00 a.m.

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

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

  English | 中国
  

• The Met App is Now Available on Android Smartphones

  Tuesday, June 30, 2015, 7:30 a.m.

• Statement by Thomas P. Campbell,
  Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
  on Announcement by LG Electronics of
  Modified Plan for New Headquarters

  Tuesday, June 23, 2015, 5:15 p.m.

• Met Museum to Present Irving Penn Centennial Exhibition in 2017 Featuring Landmark Promised Gift of Photographs from The Irving Penn Foundation

  Friday, June 12, 2015, 1:59 p.m.

• World’s Earliest Known Cello on Summer
  Loan to Metropolitan Museum

  Monday, June 8, 2015, 9:46 p.m.

• Kelly Baum Named Curator in Department of
  Modern and Contemporary Art at Met Museum

  Friday, June 5, 2015, 7:11 p.m.

• P.S. Art 2015, Annual Juried Exhibition of
  Art by NYC Public School Students, to Enjoy
  Extended Run at Metropolitan Museum
  and to Be Featured in Times Square

  Wednesday, June 3, 2015, 7:06 p.m.

  
  

• Metropolitan Museum Reprises Teens Take the Met!—Dynamic Free Program for Teens—Friday, June 5

  Wednesday, May 20, 2015, 2:49 p.m.

• Call for Submissions for Soundwalk 9:09,
  A New Work for The Metropolitan
  Museum of Art and The Met Breuer

  Tuesday, May 19, 2015, 4:04 p.m.

• Met Museum and National Gallery of Art,
  Washington, Each Acquire Significant Work
  by Leading Harlem Renaissance Artist
  Aaron Douglas

  Thursday, May 14, 2015, 6:48 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Elects New Trustees
  N. Anthony Coles, Álvaro Saieh, and Mary J. Wallach

  Tuesday, May 12, 2015, 8:09 p.m.

• Senses of Springtime—Celebrate India!
  Festival for All Ages, May 17, at Met Museum

  Friday, May 8, 2015, 6:50 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces the
  2015-2016 Season of Met Museum Presents

  Wednesday, April 29, 2015, 2:39 p.m.

• Clyde B. Jones III Named Senior Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Met Museum

  Tuesday, April 28, 2015, 7:10 p.m.

• World-renowned Classical Pianist Lang Lang to Perform at Metropolitan Museum as Part of Centennial Celebration of Asian Art and Culture

  Wednesday, April 15, 2015, 1:30 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art Expands
  Modern and Contemporary Art Program
  with Launch of The Met Breuer in March 2016

  Wednesday, April 8, 2015, 9:00 p.m.

• Masterpieces of Japanese and Korean Art from Renowned Mary Griggs Burke Collection Donated to Metropolitan Museum of Art and Minneapolis Institute of Arts through Landmark Bequests

  Monday, March 16, 2015, 2:30 p.m.

• Landmark Gifts of Art and Funding Dramatically Enhance Met Museum’s Asian Art Department as Yearlong Program of Exhibitions and Activities Begins, Celebrating Department’s Centennial

  Monday, March 16, 2015, 2:00 p.m.

• David Chipperfield Named as Architect to Redesign
  Metropolitan Museum’s Modern and Contemporary
  Art Wing and Adjacent Areas

  Wednesday, March 11, 2015, 8:30 p.m.

• Daniel H. Weiss Named Next President
  of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Tuesday, March 10, 2015, 8:00 p.m.

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

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

  English | 中国

• Statement by Thomas P. Campbell,
  Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
  On The Destruction at The Mosul Museum

  Thursday, February 26, 2015, 6:00 p.m.

• Betsy Cohen Named Honorary Trustee at Metropolitan Museum

  Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 6:00 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum’s Lunar New Year Festival to Celebrate Year of the Ram

  Wednesday, February 4, 2015, 9:00 p.m.

• MetFridays Launches at Met Museum, Highlighting Range of Activities for Visitors on Friday Evenings

  Friday, January 30, 2015, 6:00 p.m.

  
  

• 15 International Museum Leaders to Convene for Metropolitan Museum’s Second Global Museum Leaders Colloquium in April 2015

  Thursday, January 29, 2015, 3:00 p.m.

• 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

• The Roof Garden Commission: Pierre Huyghe

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:20 a.m.

  May 12–November 1, 2015 (weather permitting)

• Hungarian Treasure
  Silver from the Nicolas M. Salgo Collection

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:19 a.m.

  April 6–October 25, 2015

• Treasures and Talismans
  Rings from the Griffin Collection

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:18 a.m.

  May 1–October 18, 2015

• Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:17 a.m.

  June 30–October 4, 2015

• Discovering Japanese Art
  American Collectors and The Met

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:16 a.m.

  February, 14–September 27, 2015

• Navigating the West:
  George Caleb Bingham and the River

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:15 a.m.

  June 17–September 20, 2015

• Warriors and Mothers: Epic Mbembe Art
  

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

  December 9, 2014–September 16, 2015

• Maurice Prendergast:
  Boston Public Garden Watercolors

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:13 a.m.

  June 1–September 7, 2015

• Coptic Art, Dikran Kelekian, and Milton Avery

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:13 a.m.

  August 11, 2014–September 7, 2015

• China: Through the Looking Glass

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

  May 7–September 7, 2015 (Extended)

  English | 中国

• Van Gogh: Irises and Roses

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:11 a.m.

  May 12–August 16, 2015

• Fatal Attraction: Piotr Uklanski Photographs

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:10 a.m.

  March 17-August 16, 2015

• Hans Hofmann: Selected Paintings

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:09 a.m.

  November 18, 2014-July 5, 2015

• Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700
  Opulence and Fantasy

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:08 a.m.

  April 20 – July 26, 2015

• TULLIO LOMBARDO’S ADAM
  A Masterpiece Restored

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:07 a.m.

  November 11, 2014–June 14, 2015

• Bazm and Razm: Feast and Fight in Persian Art

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:06 a.m.

  February 17–May 31, 2015

• Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer
  of India and Burma, 1852-1860

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:05 a.m.

  February 24–May 25, 2015

• The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:04 a.m.

  March 9–May 10, 2015

• Celebration of the Year of the Ram

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:03 a.m.

  January 17-April 19, 2015

• Thomas Hart Benton’s America Today
  Mural Rediscovered

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:02 a.m.

  September 30, 2014–April 19, 2015

• Ennion: Master of Roman Glass

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:01 a.m.

  December 9, 2014–April 13, 2015

• Painting Music in the Age of Caravaggio

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 4:00 a.m.

  January 20–April 5, 2015

• The Art of the Chinese Album

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:59 a.m.

  September 6, 2014–March 29, 2015

• Marisol’s Monumental Self-Portrait
  Looking at The Last Supper

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:58 a.m.

  October 8, 2014–March 15, 2015

• Madame Cézanne

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:56 a.m.

  November 19, 2014–March 15, 2015

• The Winchester Bible:
  A Masterpiece of Medieval Art

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:54 a.m.

  December 9, 2014-March 9, 2015

• Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection

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

  October 20, 2014—February 16, 2015

• Thomas Struth: Photographs

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:50 a.m.

  September 30, 2014–February 16, 2015

• El Greco in New York

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:48 a.m.

  November 4, 2014 - February 1, 2015

• Bartholomeus Spranger
  Splendor and Eroticism in Imperial Prague
  November 4, 2014–February 1, 2015

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:46 a.m.

• Carleton Watkins: Yosemite
  November 3, 2014–February 1, 2015

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:45 a.m.

• Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire
  October 21, 2014-February 1, 2015

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:44 a.m.

• Treasures from India: Jewels from the Al-Thani Collection
  October 28, 2014-January 25, 2015

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:42 a.m.

• Kimono: A Modern History

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:40 a.m.

  September 27, 2014–January 19, 2015

• The Sacred Lute: The Art of Ostad Elahi
  August 5, 2014–January 11, 2015

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:38 a.m.

• Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry
  October 8, 2014–January 11, 2015

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:38 a.m.

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

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

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• The Roof Garden Commission: Dan Graham with Günther Vogt
  April 29 - November 2, 2014 (weather permitting)

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:36 a.m.

• The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy: British Art and Design
  May 20-October 26, 2014

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:34 a.m.

• Garry Winogrand
  June 27–September 21, 2014

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:32 a.m.

• Italian Renaissance Drawings from the
  Robert Lehman Collection
  May 13-September 1, 2014

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:30 a.m.

• Now You See It: Photography and Concealment
  March 31 - September 1, 2014

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:28 a.m.

• Unique by Design: Contemporary Jewelry in the Donna Schneier Collection
  May 13–August 31, 2014

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:26 a.m.

• Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy—Selections from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang
  April 29–August 17, 2014

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:24 a.m.

• Charles James: Beyond Fashion
  May 8–August 10, 2014

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:22 a.m.

• Goya and the Altamira Family
  April 22-August 3, 2014

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:20 a.m.

• Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century
  April 14–July 27, 2014

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:18 a.m.

• Carpets of the East in Paintings from the West
  March 11–June 29, 2014

  Sunday, December 14, 2014, 3:16 a.m.

• Early Renaissance Drawing in Verona
  March 10–June 8, 2014

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

• Amie Siegel: Provenance
  June 23, 2014 - January 4, 2015

  Sunday, December 14, 2014

• Schedule of Exhibitions
  Through December 2014

  Saturday, December 13, 2014, 1:00 p.m.

• George R. Goldner to Step Down After Leading Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Drawings and Prints for 21 Years; Nadine M. Orenstein to Become Drue Heinz Curator in Charge of the Department

  Wednesday, December 10, 2014, 5:00 a.m.

• Souls Grown Deep Foundation Donates 57 Works to Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Monday, November 24, 2014, 11:00 p.m.

• Visitors to Four 2014 Exhibitions at Metropolitan Museum Generated $753 Million in Spending in New York

  Monday, November 24, 2014, 1:00 p.m.

• Khan Academy to Carry Extensive Content Created by Metropolitan Museum Based on Its World-Renowned Collection
  New Partnership Will Extend Free Online Learning Opportunities Globally

  Monday, November 24, 2014, 12:00 p.m.

• New Trustees James W. Breyer, Howard S. Marks, Beatrice Stern, and Caroline Diamond Harrison Elected at Metropolitan Museum

  Wednesday, November 12, 2014, 5:00 a.m.

• Met Museum Celebrates Diwali, Indian “Festival of Light,” with Dance Performances
  Sunday, November 2, 2014

  Friday, October 31, 2014, 4:00 a.m.

• Teens Take the Met—Dynamic Free Program for Teens—Will Launch on Friday, October 17

  Thursday, October 9, 2014, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Acquires Important Group of Egyptian Vessels and Ornaments Excavated in 1913-14 at Haraga

  Tuesday, October 7, 2014, 1:00 a.m.

• Cloisters Concerts in 2014–15 Season Feature Expanded Range and New Locations
  

  Sunday, October 5, 2014, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum’s Seventh Annual ¡Fiesta! Celebrates Hispanic and Latin American Cultures with Afternoon of Free Family Programs and Performances for All Ages

  Thursday, September 25, 2014, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum’s New David H. Koch Plaza Opens to the Public September 10

  Tuesday, September 9, 2014, 4:00 a.m.

  Two-year Renovation Project Transforms Plaza along Fifth Avenue Into Welcoming Entry for the Museum’s More than Six Million Annual Visitors
  

• Metropolitan Museum Launches Flagship App for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

  Tuesday, September 2, 2014, 1:00 p.m.

  The Met App Provides Easy Way for the Museum’s Community, Locally and Globally, to Stay Current with What’s Happening at the Museum

• 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.

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• Cloisters Museum and Gardens Announces Fall 2014 Schedule of Programs

  Wednesday, August 6, 2014, 4:00 a.m.

• P.S. Art 2014: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of NYC Kids

  Tuesday, August 5, 2014, 7:00 a.m.

• Emily K. Rafferty, President of Metropolitan Museum of Art for Past Decade, to Retire in 2015

  Tuesday, July 29, 2014, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Announces 6.2 Million Annual Attendance

  Friday, July 25, 2014, 7:27 p.m.

• David Landau and Marie-Rose Kahane Donate 44 Glass Works by Carlo Scarpa to Metropolitan Museum

  Friday, July 11, 2014, 6:00 p.m.

• 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.

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