Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO
Posted: Thursday, October 11, 2012
There's nothing like a good read, and today we're adding 643 books to your reading list. MetPublications puts nearly all of our publications—past, present, and future—online. That out-of-print catalogue from the Met's groundbreaking 1985 India exhibition? Now you can read it. The 1970 catalogue of the Wrightsman porcelain collection? That's there, too, along with hundreds of other titles from across the Museum.
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Nadja Hansen, Editorial Assistant, Editorial Department
Posted: Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Chief Photographer Joe Coscia has worked at the Museum for more than twenty years. One of his recent assignments was to photograph the works of art for Masterpieces of European Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400–1900, written by Ian Wardropper and published last fall. I asked him about the unique work of a museum photographer, as well as the collaborations and complex choices involved in shooting the masterpieces illustrated in this book.
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Nadja Hansen, Editorial Assistant, Editorial Department
Posted: Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Nadja Hansen, Editorial Assistant, Editorial Department
Posted: Friday, January 20, 2012
Nadja Hansen, Editorial Assistant, Editorial Department
Posted: Monday, October 17, 2011
Posted: Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Nadja Hansen, Editorial Assistant, Editorial Department
Posted: Tuesday, April 26, 2011
The Met produces around thirty publications a year, including special exhibition and permanent collection catalogues, guides, the quarterly Bulletin, the annual Journal, and many other special projects. As an assistant in the Editorial Department, I get a glimpse of all stages of production, from the initial proposal until the time the bound book arrives on my desk.
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