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Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe Features 200 Works by European and American Modernists in the Metropolitan Museum's Collection
October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012
Thursday, October 13, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
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Metropolitan Museum Concerts
November 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
The Alwan Arab Music Ensemble Performs at Museum's Great Hall Balcony Bar to Mark Opening of New Islamic Department Galleries; Compañia Flamenca José Porcel Performs "Gypsy Fire"; Pacifica Quartet Continues Its Beethoven Quartet Cycle; Mile Square Theater Presents "The Garden of Rikki Tikki Tavi" for Families; Chanticleer Begins Metropolitan Museum Christmas Concerts
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Metropolitan Museum to Open on October 10,
Columbus Day “Met Holiday Monday”
Thursday, October 6, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
A diverse roster of special exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, and amenities will be open to the public at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Columbus Day, October 10—the next in the series of Met Holiday Mondays. These are extra public viewing days that take place on the Mondays of major holiday weeks and weekends, when historically the Museum has been closed. The four popular exhibitions that will be featured this Columbus Day are: Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum; Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures; Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine; and The Art of Dissent in 17th-century China: Masterpieces of Ming Loyalist Art from the Chih Lo Lou Collection.
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Exhibition Celebrating Late Renaissance Master Perino del Vaga at Metropolitan Museum
September 27, 2011–February 5, 2012
Monday, September 26, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi, 1501-1547), a pupil of Raphael, was a leading innovator of the late Renaissance style known as Mannerism, and one of the most influential Italian artists of the 16th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently acquired a painting and a drawing by the master, and they will both be featured in Perino del Vaga in New York Collections, on view from September 27, 2011, through February 5, 2012. The new acquisitions will be seen alongside some 18 drawings by the artist from the Metropolitan Museum, the Morgan Library & Museum, and private collections, as well as a second painting from a New York private collection.
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Major International Loan Exhibition Featuring Greatest Artists in History of Indian Painting Goes on View at Metropolitan Museum in OctoberSeptember 28, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Monday, September 26, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
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Metropolitan Museum Launches Expanded, Redesigned Website, Providing Unprecedented Access to Collections, Programs, Research, and Visitor Information
Monday, September 26, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
(New York, September 26, 2011)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art has relaunched its website, www.metmuseum.org, it was announced today by Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Museum. Key features of the expanded and redesigned site include comprehensive access to more than 340,000 works of art in the Museum’s encyclopedic collections; extensive information and multimedia features on exhibitions, programs, and galleries; a completely new and streamlined design for greater ease of viewing the vast array of images, resources, and other material now online; and an interactive floor plan and multiple itineraries to enhance in-person visits to the Museum. The new website, which has been in preparation for three years, originally launched in 1996 and has not been thoroughly updated since 2000.
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Epic Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum Reexamines Masterpieces of African Art in Relation to Historic FiguresSeptember 21, 2011 – January 29, 2012
Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
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Metropolitan Museum’s September 26 Multicultural Benefit to Celebrate “An Evening of Many Cultures”
Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s second Multicultural Benefit, “An Evening of Many Cultures,” will take place on September 26, 2011. Among the honorees will be Samuel L. Jackson, soon to appear on Broadway as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and LaTanya Richardson Jackson; and Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro and Grace Hightower De Niro. This black-tie gala is the signature event in celebration of the Museum’s Multicultural Audience Development Initiative (MADI), founded in 1998.
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Good Humor at the Met—Caricature and Satire Explored in Infinite Jest at the Metropolitan MuseumSeptember 13, 2011–March 4, 2012
Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
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Metropolitan Museum’s McQueen, Caro, Serra, and “Rooms with a View” Exhibitions Stimulate $908 Million Economic Impact for New York
Monday, September 12, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
(New York, September 12, 2011)—The Metropolitan Museum’s concurrent presentation of four acclaimed and widely attended exhibitions in the summer 2011 season—Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty; Anthony Caro on the Roof; Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective; and Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century—generated $908 million in spending by regional, national, and international 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 $90.8 million. (Results of visitor survey are below.)