Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO
Posted: Thursday, April 12, 2012
We are delighted to unveil the 2012–13 season of Met Museum Presents, our newly renamed performing arts and talks series.
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Posted: Friday, March 30, 2012
The Cloisters museum and gardens—the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe—will be open to the public on Met Holiday Mondays beginning April 9.
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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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Anna Bernhard, Archives Assistant, Museum Archives
Posted: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
One hundred and forty years ago today, on March 20, 1872, the City of New York's Department of Public Parks designated the site between 79th and 84th Streets in Central Park for the future Metropolitan Museum of Art building.
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Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO
Posted: Thursday, March 15, 2012
"What's your Met?" We asked this question of eleven celebrities, and were delighted by the range of answers we got from Alex Rodriguez, Claire Danes, Marc Jacobs, Alicia Keys, Jeff Koons, Seth Meyers, Zaha Hadid, Hugh Jackman, Kristen Wiig, and Carmelo and La La Anthony.
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Nadja Hansen, Editorial Assistant, Editorial Department
Posted: Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO
Posted: Wednesday, March 7, 2012
I am just back from Long Beach, CA, where I spoke at TED, the annual four-day conference started twenty-five years ago and dedicated to the concept of "Ideas Worth Spreading."
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James Moske, Managing Archivist, Museum Archives
Posted: Friday, February 17, 2012
One hundred and forty years ago, on February 20, 1872, The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened its doors to the public for the first time.
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Rebecca Lindsey, Member of the Visiting Committee, Department of Islamic Art
Posted: Thursday, February 2, 2012
A Metropolitan Museum patron interested in Islamic art in the 1880s would have found little of relevance on display. By 1910, however, the situation was very much improved, and in the century since then, the Islamic art displays at the Museum have become the largest in the Western world.
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Femke Speelberg, Assistant Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints
Posted: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
