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Metropolitan Museum Observes World AIDS Day on December 1
Sunday, November 29, 2009, 5:00 a.m.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will observe World AIDS Day for the 21st consecutive year on Tuesday, December 1, 2009. In recognition of the devastating losses suffered by the cultural community as a result of AIDS, the Metropolitan will shroud or remove from view 15 works of art around the Museum. Stanchions in the Great Hall will acquaint visitors with the Museum's observance, and black ribbons will be tied around the flowers in the Great Hall. In addition, the Museum will lower the flags on its plaza to half-staff to symbolize the losses due to AIDS-related deaths in the art community.
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Spring 2010 Asian Art Installations
Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:00 a.m.
Arts of Korea Gallery
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Judaica from Byzantium and Medieval Europe On View at Metropolitan Museum
Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:00 a.m.
Nearly a dozen examples of early Jewish art—dating from the first through the seventh century C.E.—are on view in the south gallery of the Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries for Byzantine art and the Medieval Europe Gallery. Works on loan from the Jewish Theological Seminary, The American Numismatic Society, and the Judy and Michael Steinhardt Collection, New York, are shown alongside objects from the holdings of the Metropolitan.
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Gallery of Late Gothic Art Reopens at The Cloisters
Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:00 a.m.
Monumental Tapestry is Highlight of Multi-Year Project at Met's Northern Manhattan Branch
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Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche on Display for Holiday Season at Metropolitan Museum
Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:00 a.m.
The Christmas tree and Neapolitan Baroque crèche at The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, a long-established yuletide tradition in New York, will be on view for the
holiday season from November 24, 2009, through January 6, 2010. The brightly lit,
20-foot blue spruce – with a collection of 18th-century Neapolitan angels and
cherubs 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.
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Metropolitan Museum Exhibitions Create $593 Million Economic Impact for New York
Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:00 a.m.
(New York, November 23, 2009)—The Metropolitan Museum's summer 2009 opening of its New American Wing, along with the concurrent presentation of three highly acclaimed and widely attended special exhibitions—Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom; Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective; and The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion—generated $593 million in spending by regional, national, and foreign 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 $59.3 million. (Study findings are attached.)
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Gallery of Late Gothic Art Reopens at The Cloisters
Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:00 a.m.
Monumental Tapestry is Highlight of Multi-Year Project at Met's Northern Manhattan Branch
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Metropolitan Museum Celebrates the Holidays by Opening on "Holiday Monday" December 28
Sunday, November 22, 2009, 5:00 a.m.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be open to the public on Monday, December 28 (the Monday between Christmas and New Year's Day), as part of the Museum's popular "Holiday Mondays" program. The Museum will open the doors of its main building this winter and spring on three additional major Monday holidays: January 18 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day), February 15 (Presidents' Day), and May 31 (Memorial Day).
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Last Chance!
Vermeer's Masterpiece "The Milkmaid"
Watteau, Music, and Theater
Roxy Paine on the Roof: "Maelstrom"
Close at Metropolitan Museum on Sunday, November 29
Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 5:00 a.m.
Vermeer's Masterpiece "The Milkmaid"
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's historic voyage from the Netherlands to New York, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has sent The Milkmaid, perhaps the most admired painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), to the Metropolitan Museum. The exhibition marks the first time that The Milkmaid has traveled to the U.S. since 1939, and also features all five paintings by Vermeer from the Metropolitan's collection and works by other Dutch masters.
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METROPOLITAN MUSEUM CONCERTS
NOVEMBER 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009, 5:00 a.m.
Haydn Trio Eisenstadt Performs Haydn and Two U.S. Premieres,
Steve Ross and Lesley Gore Make Return Appearances at the Museum,
Paula Robison Performs Music from the Time of Watteau, and
Chanticleer Begins Its Run of Christmas Concerts