Search the Press Room

Current search results within: All topics

• Major International Loan Exhibition Featuring Greatest Artists in History of Indian Painting Goes on View at Metropolitan Museum in October
  September 28, 2011 – January 8, 2012

  Monday, September 26, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

   

• 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.

• Epic Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum Reexamines Masterpieces of African Art in Relation to Historic Figures
  September 21, 2011 – January 29, 2012

  Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

   

• 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.

• Good Humor at the Met—Caricature and Satire Explored in Infinite Jest at the Metropolitan Museum
  September 13, 2011–March 4, 2012

  Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

   

• 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.)

• Acclaimed Hong Kong Collection of Ming Loyalist Art On View at Metropolitan Museum This Fall
  September 7, 2011 – January 2, 2012

  Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

   

• Schedule of Exhibitions
  January - June 2012

  Monday, September 5, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

• The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt by Faith Ringgold and New York City Students On View at Metropolitan Museum Beginning August 30
  August 30, 2011 – January 22, 2012

  Thursday, September 1, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

   

• 661,509 Total Visitors to Alexander McQueen Put Retrospective among Top 10 Most Visited Exhibitions in Metropolitan Museum’s History

  Monday, August 8, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  661,509 Total Visitors to Alexander McQueen Put Retrospective among Top 10 Most Visited Exhibitions in Metropolitan Museum’s History

• Berlin Lends Colossal Statue of Pharaoh to
  Metropolitan Museum for Ten Years

  Friday, August 5, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  A monumental ancient Egyptian statue of a seated pharaoh—probably Amenemhat II—will be lent to The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Berlin’s renowned Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz for a period of ten years, beginning this month. The ten-foot-tall, nearly nine-ton, 4,000-year-old sculpture entered the Berlin museum’s collection in 1837. Because of a construction project now underway—to renovate the courtyard on Museumsinsel (Museum Island) where the artwork has most recently been displayed—the statue had to be moved, thereby providing the opportunity for this long-term loan. The sculpture will go on view in the Metropolitan’s Great Hall for approximately one year before it is moved into The Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art. The Middle Kingdom sculpture is an outstanding example of ancient Egypt’s magnificent colossal statuary, of which very few examples can be found in American museums.

• Metropolitan Museum Highlights Frans Hals Paintings from Collection in Exhibition on View Beginning July 26

  Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the most important collection of paintings in America by the celebrated Dutch artist Frans Hals (1582/83-1666), whose portraits and genre scenes were famous in his lifetime for their immediacy and dazzling brushwork. Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum—on view from July 26, through October 10, 2011—presents 13 paintings by Hals, including two lent from private collections, and several works by other Netherlandish masters.

• Metropolitan Museum Announces 5.68 Million Attendance, Highest in 40 Years

  Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, July 21, 2011)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that 5.68 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 in 40 years.  The total was more than 400,000 greater than in Fiscal Year 2010.

• Mother India at Metropolitan Museum Features Depictions of the Goddess in Indian Painting

  Friday, July 1, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Devi, the Indian goddess, is the omnipresent embodiment of power and wisdom given expression in all of India’s ancient religions. From the beginnings of figurative representation in early India, she has been the frequent subject of sculpture and a favored subject in later devotional painting. Mother India: The Goddess in Indian Painting, to be presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from June 29 through November 27, 2011, will feature 40 works from the Museum’s collection that depict Devi in all her various aspects. Perhaps the most widely worshipped deity in all India, Devi stands alongside Shiva and Vishnu in the first rank of the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain pantheons.

• MetFridays del Museo Metropolitano
  se enfocará en la cultura de América Latina
  el 18 de septiembre

  Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 6:00 a.m.

  English | Español

• Metropolitan Museum’s Main Building and Cloisters Observe Memorial Day—May 27—Final “Met Holiday Monday”

  Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

• Alexander McQueen's Iconic Designs in Costume Institute Retrospective at Metropolitan Museum

  Tuesday, May 31, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  The spring 2011 Costume Institute exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, is on view May 4 through August 7 (new, extended closing date). The exhibition celebrates the late Mr. McQueen's extraordinary contributions to fashion. From his Central Saint Martins postgraduate collection in 1992 to his final runway presentation, which took place after his death in February 2010, Mr. McQueen challenged and expanded our understanding of fashion beyond utility to a conceptual expression of culture, politics, and identity.
  

• Next Met Holiday Monday on Memorial Day, May 30, Provides Additional Opportunity to Visit Highly Popular Exhibitions Alexander McQueen, Guitar Heroes, Rooms with a View

  Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Schedule of Upcoming Holiday Mondays Announced

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts Celebrate the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

  Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Throughout the 2011–12 season, Metropolitan Museum Concerts will present an array of events in which a diverse selection of artists will perform music from, or inspired by, the regions and cultures represented in the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, opening November 1, 2011.

• SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS
  MAY 2011 - JANUARY 2012

  Monday, May 16, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: Information provided below is subject to change. To confirm scheduling and dates, call the Communications Department at (212) 570-3951. CONTACT NUMBER FOR USE IN TEXT IS (212) 535-7710.