News

Metropolitan Museum’s Main Building and Cloisters Celebrate the Season with Two "Holiday Mondays"—Added Viewing Days—December 24 and 31

The Sau-Wing Lam Collection in Action:
A Four-Concert Series Featuring Rare Italian Stringed Instruments

Met Museum Presents – January 2013

Nicholas Cullinan Named Curator in Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at Metropolitan Museum

Metropolitan Museum Receives Group of Important Modern Works and Establishes Fund Supporting Its Collection of Art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas through Generous Bequests of Andrea Bollt

Marina Kellen French Elected Trustee at Metropolitan Museum

Andrew Solomon Elected Trustee at Metropolitan Museum

Marica F. Vilcek Elected Honorary Trustee at Metropolitan Museum

Met Museum Presents – December 2012

Metropolitan Museum and Cloisters to Observe Veterans Day Weekend with Free Admission for the Military on November 11 and 12

Met Museum Presents—Live Webcast of
Peony Pavilion in Updated Version by Tan Dun and Huang Doudou
Performed by Zhang Jun and the Shanghai Zhang Jun Art Center Company in Metropolitan Museum’s Astor Court Friday, November 30, 7:00 p.m.

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM TO REOPEN CLOISTERS ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM ANNOUNCES IT WILL CLOSE TO PUBLIC ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30

Met Museum Presents
November 2012

Metropolitan Museum’s Summer Exhibitions Stimulate $781 Million Economic Impact for
New York

¡Fiesta! at Metropolitan Museum Celebrates Hispanic and Latin American Cultures With Full Day of Programs and Performances
September 29, 2012

Met Holiday Mondays at Metropolitan Museum Reach 10-Year Mark This Columbus Day, October 8

Met Museum Presents
Talks, Tours, and Conversations
Fall 2012

Met Museum Presents – October 2012

The Met Reframed: DJ Spooky in Residence
Features Five Performances, Three Conversations, a Gallery Tour, and Two Workshops in the 2012-13 Season

Artist in Residence DJ Spooky to Screen Classic Korean Film Madame Freedom with Live Performance of Original Score and to Participate in a Related Talk
October 24 and 26, 2012

Met Museum Presents Free Events Complementing the Exhibition Regarding Warhol September 2012

ETHEL Named New Resident Ensemble at Metropolitan Museum’s Balcony Bar Friday and Saturday Evenings

Metropolitan Museum’s Main Building and Cloisters to be Open on Labor Day, September 3

Met Museum Presents
The Peony Pavilion, Version by Tan Dun and
Huang Doudou
Performed by Zhang Jun and the Shanghai Zhang Jun Art Center Company in The Astor Court

Met Museum Presents
Warhol Today: A Series of Talks, Tours and Performances Featuring Patti Smith, Dean & Britta, Kalup Linzy, and Others, Framing the Exhibition Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September—December 2012

Jeff Rosenheim Named Curator in Charge, and Malcolm Daniel Named Senior Curator, of Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Photographs

Pierre Terjanian Appointed Curator in Department of Arms and Armor at Metropolitan Museum

Metropolitan Museum Announces
6.28 Million Attendance

(New York, July 16, 2012)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that 6.28 million people visited the Met during the fiscal year that ended on June 30. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, is the highest recorded since the Metropolitan Museum began tracking visitor attendance more than 40 years ago. The total number of visitors was nearly 600,000 greater than in Fiscal Year 2011. 

P.S. Art 2012 Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum, Juried Display of Art by NYC Public School Students

Metropolitan Museum “Holiday Mondays” Program Expands to Include Cloisters Museum and Gardens

Two Medals and a Plaquette Returned by Metropolitan Museum to Heirs of Munich-based Art Gallery

Metropolitan Museum Creates Mobile Detective Game

Met Museum Presents
June 2012

Lecture on Cycladic and Early Greek Art at Metropolitan Museum

Gifts from Mrs. Charles Wrightsman—Antico Sculpture, Boilly Painting, Ingres Drawings, and Other Exceptional Works of Art—Enrich Metropolitan Museum’s Collection

New Audio Tour by Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas P. Campbell Highlights Masterpieces of the Collection in Eight Languages

Metropolitan Museum Announces Live Streaming from Red Carpet of Costume Institute Benefit

Metropolitan Museum Announces 2012-13 Season of Performances and Talks, Newly Renamed "Met Museum Presents"

MET MUSEUM PRESENTS
MAY 2012

Metropolitan Museum Names Early Hudson River School Gallery for Jack and Susan Warner

Metropolitan Museum to Host Panel Discussion and Performance by The Baseball Project in Celebration of the Installation Breaking the Color Barrier in Major League Baseball

Statement by The Metropolitan Museum of Art On Settlement of the Brooke Astor Estate

Metropolitan Museum’s Main Building and Cloisters Celebrate Spring Break Week with Two Met Holiday Mondays, March 25 and April 1

Metropolitan Museum Concerts & Lectures
April 2012

Metropolitan Museum Lectures
March, April, and May 2012

Newly Reframed Painting of Washington, Newly Acquired Statuette of Lincoln on View Next Met Holiday Monday—Presidents’ Day, February 20—in Met’s New American Wing

Metropolitan Museum of Art Acquires Saint-Gaudens Standing Lincoln

Lunar New Year Festival at Metropolitan Museum on February 4 Celebrates Chinese Arts and Culture

Sheena Wagstaff to Head Metropolitan Museum’s New Modern and Contemporary Art Department