Adrianna Del Collo, Archivist, Museum Archives
Posted: Sunday, October 31, 2010
One hundred years ago today, Edward Robinson, curator of classical art and assistant director at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was named the Museum's third director.
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Malcolm Daniel, Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs
Posted: Tuesday, October 26, 2010
James Moske, Managing Archivist, Museum Archives
Posted: Monday, October 18, 2010
On October 18, 1880, Metropolitan Museum of Art Director Luigi Palma di Cesnola urged the Museum's Trustees to create an art library that would help fulfill the institution's educational mission.
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Jennette Mullaney, Former Associate Email Marketing Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Jean Antoine Watteau's Mezzetin is among the Museum's most evocative works. Katharine Baetjer, curator in the Department of European Paintings, spoke with me about this small, striking painting.
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Christopher S. Lightfoot, Curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art
Posted: Thursday, September 23, 2010
In 1996 mosaics were accidentally uncovered during highway construction in the modern Israeli town of Lod, not far from Tel Aviv (see map). Lod is ancient Lydda, which was destroyed by the Romans in A.D. 66 during the Jewish War. Refounded by Hadrian as Diospolis, Lydda was awarded the rank of a Roman colony under Septimius Severus in A.D. 200. It remained in Roman hands until becoming a Christian city and eventually succumbing to Arab conquerors in A.D. 636. The discovery of the mosaics immediately prompted a rescue excavation, undertaken by Miriam Avissar for the Israel Antiquities Authority, which revealed a series of mosaic floors that measured approximately fifty by twenty-seven feet.
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Douglas Eklund, Associate Curator, Department of Photographs
Posted: Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Inside the museum—not just the Met but any art museum—photography has been birthed in hallways. It began to spring from the shoulders of museums' print departments in the 1920s and 1930s, when modernism was making a case for photography as an independent art form. Over the decades it has spread institutionally through the in-between spaces that architecturally mirror the medium's proudly mongrel status as both art and not art.
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Barbara File, Archivist, Museum Archives
Posted: Tuesday, September 14, 2010
INDIA!, an exhibition of the art of India from the fourteenth through the nineteenth century, opened on this day in 1985 as part of a nationwide Festival of India jointly organized by the Government of India and the Indo-U.S. Sub-commission on Education and Culture.
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Felicity Tsikiwa, College Group at the Met Committee Member; and Will Carington, College Group at the Met Committee Member
Posted: Friday, September 10, 2010
The Met's permanent collection includes works of art that represent a wide variety of art styles, time periods, and geographic regions in Hispanic and Latin American countries, which makes celebrating these works no small task. But on Saturday, September 25, ¡Fiesta! will do just that.
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Jennette Mullaney, Former Associate Email Marketing Manager, Department of Digital Media
Posted: Wednesday, September 1, 2010
On view in the Musical Instruments galleries is an arresting stringed object, an armadillo shell for its back. Ken Moore, the Frederick P. Rose Curator in Charge of Musical Instruments, spoke with me about this work.
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Alex Hills, Online Marketing Coordinator, Digital Media
Posted: Tuesday, August 24, 2010
The current exhibition Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980 features candid photographs of New Yorkers, with each of Levinstein's subjects representing a particular neighborhood. In the thirty years since these photographs were taken, New York City's neighborhoods have changed dramatically: new buildings have appeared, businesses have opened or closed, and a new generation has moved in. What would Levinstein see in the people of New York today?
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