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• Victorian Electrotypes on View in New Installation at the Metropolitan Museum
  November 22, 2011–April 22, 2012

  Thursday, November 17, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

   

• Art in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1515: Paintings and Drawings from the Museum's Collections
  November 8, 2011 - February 5, 2012

  Friday, November 11, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

• Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche on Display for Holiday Season at Metropolitan Museum
  November 22, 2011–January 8, 2012

  Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

   

• Metropolitan Museum to Open Renovated Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

  Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  The grand reopening of a suite of 15 dramatic New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia will take place at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on November 1. The greatly enlarged, freshly conceived, and completely renovated galleries will house the Metropolitan’s renowned collection of Islamic art—one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of this material in the world. Design features within the new space will highlight both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the numerous cultures represented here; multiple entryways will allow visitors to approach the new galleries—and the art displayed within—from different perspectives. 

• The Making of a Collection: Islamic Art at the Metropolitan
  November 1, 2011-February 5, 2012

  Monday, October 31, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  December 2011

  Monday, October 31, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  For tickets, visit www.metmuseum.org/tickets or call 212-570-3949. Tickets are also available at the Great Hall Box Office, which is open Tuesday-Saturday 10-5:00 and Sunday noon-5:00. Student and group discount tickets are available for some events; call 212-570-3949. Tickets include admission to the Museum on day of performance.
  

• 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.

   

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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• 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.

• Rarely Seen 18th-Century Pastel Portraits on View in New Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, May 12, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Pastel quite suddenly became popular throughout Europe in the 18th century, so much so that, by 1750, some 2,500 artists and amateurs were working in pastel in Paris alone. Portraits in pastel were commissioned by all ranks of society, but most enthusiastically by the royal families, their courtiers, and the wealthy middle classes. Although pastel is a drawing material, 18th-century pastel portraits are often highly finished, quite large, brightly colored, and elaborately framed, evoking oil paintings, the medium to which they were invariably compared. The powdery pastel crayons are particularly suited to capturing the fleeting expressions that characterize the most life-like portraits.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces 2011-2012 Concert Season

  Thursday, May 12, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  58th Season Features Artists Ranging from Jordi Savall, Thomas Hampson,
  Tenet, and the Pacifica Quartet to Angelique Kidjo, Patti Smith, and
  Kayhan Kalhor

• Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney Announce Collaborative Agreement for Breuer Building

  Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, May 11, 2011)—The directors of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that their boards of trustees have agreed in principle to a multiple-year collaboration projected to begin in 2015, when the Whitney opens its new museum facility on Gansevoort Street in downtown Manhattan. The Metropolitan Museum plans to present exhibitions and educational programming at the Whitney's landmark building at 945 Madison Avenue, which was designed by Marcel Breuer, for a period of eight years, with the possibility of extending the agreement for a longer term. The two museums will seek to collaborate on collections sharing, publications, and other educational activities.

• Anna Wintour Becomes an Elective Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, May 10, 2011)—Anna Wintour has been named an Elective Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced today by James R. Houghton, the Museum's Chairman. Ms. Wintour's election took place at the May 10 meeting of the Board.

• Spring and Summer Attractions in the Gardens at The Cloisters

  Monday, May 9, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Garden Days—an annual weekend of programming devoted to the acclaimed and popular plantings at The Cloisters Museum and Gardens—will take place on June 4 and 5. Many of the herbs and flowers in the three enclosed gardens at The Cloisters—the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art dedicated to the art and architecture of medieval Europe—are at their peak in late spring and early summer. Located on a hilltop in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan, The Cloisters museum and gardens enjoy an unparalleled view of the Hudson River and the New Jersey Palisades from several vantage points.

• Daniel Brodsky Elected to Succeed James R. Houghton as Chairman of the Metropolitan Museum's Board of Trustees

  Monday, May 9, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, May 10, 2011)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the election of business and civic leader Daniel Brodsky, a Trustee of the institution since 2001, as its next Chairman of the Board. Mr. Brodsky will officially assume the chairmanship on September 13, when James R. Houghton retires from the post after 13 years to become a Trustee Emeritus.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  June 2011

  Sunday, May 8, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Shen Wei Dance Arts' New Site-Specific Work for the American Wing,
  U.S. Premiere of Philip Glass's String Quartet No. 5,
  William Bolcom, Joan Morris, Robert White, and Memories of World War II, and
  Steve Miller's Encore Evening of Jazz

• Shen Wei Dance Arts to Create a Site-Specific Dance Work in The Charles Engelhard Court in the American Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art June 6 & 13, 2011

  Sunday, May 8, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  The Metropolitan Museum's First Site-Specific Dance Work

• Sam Waterston, Brian Murray, Star June 20 and 27 at the Metropolitan Museum in Staged Readings of Brenson-Duveen Drama, The Old Masters

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

  (New York, May 5, 2011)—Simon Gray's intense drama of friendship, ethics, and doom involving two leading luminaries of the pre-World War II European art world—The Old Masters—will be revived for an exclusive, two-evenings-only staged reading at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on consecutive Mondays, June 20 and June 27, at 7 p.m.

• Patti and Everett B. Birch Foundation Funds Two New Galleries and Education Programs at Metropolitan Museum

  Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Emphasis on Islamic Culture of Morocco, Spain, North Africa, and Western Mediterranean Honors Memory of Longtime Supporter Patti Cadby Birch

• Met Celebrates Senses of Springtime with Family Festival Highlighting Art and Culture from the Islamic World and the Ancient Near East
  Sunday, April 28, 2013

  Monday, April 25, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Lectures in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
  May and June 2011

  Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  For tickets, call the Concerts & Lectures Department at 212-570-3949 or visit www.metmuseum.org/tickets, where updated schedules and programs (including additional lectures that are free with Museum admission) are available.
  Tickets are also available at the Great Hall Box Office, which is open Tuesday–Saturday 10–5:00, and Sunday noon–5:00.
  Student discount tickets are available for some events; call 212-570-3949.

• Exposition commémorant le centenaire du célèbre
  Cabinet des estampes des conservateurs fondateurs
  du Met Museum

  Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

• Sculptures by Renowned British Artist Anthony Caro on View at Metropolitan Museum April 26

  Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Sculptures by Anthony Caro (b. 1924)—who is considered the most influential and prolific British sculptor of his generation, and a key figure in the development of modernist sculpture over the last 60 years—will be featured in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2011 installation on The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, opening April 26. The installation will include a selection of sculpture in steel, painted and unpainted, spanning the artist's career to date and highlighting principal aspects of his long career: engagement with form in space, dialogue between sculpture and architecture, and creation of new, abstract analogies for the human figure and landscape.

• Korean Ceramics from the Leeum Collection on View at Metropolitan Museum

  Monday, March 28, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  A special loan exhibition focusing on the dynamic art of buncheong ceramics will go on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on April 7.  Featuring more than 60 masterpieces from the renowned collection of Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea—the majority of which have never before been seen in the U.S.—Poetry in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art will explore the bold and startlingly modern ceramic tradition that flourished in Korea during the 15th and 16th centuries of the Joseon dynasty (1392-1910), as well as its eloquent reinterpretations by today's leading ceramists.

• Limor Tomer Named New Concerts & Lectures General Manager at Metropolitan Museum

  Sunday, March 27, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, March 28, 2011)—Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today the appointment of Limor Tomer as the Museum's General Manager of Concerts & Lectures, effective May 2. She currently holds the dual positions of Executive Producer for Music at radio station Classical 105.9 FM WQXR and Adjunct Curator for Performing Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. At the Metropolitan Museum, Ms. Tomer—whose prolific career in the arts encompasses more than 20 years of experience as producer, programmer, administrator, and musician—will head the renowned Concerts & Lectures series, which is in its 57th season and presents more than 200 events to the public each year.

• Rooms with a View, First Exhibition to Focus on Motif of the Open Window in 19th Century Art, at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, March 24, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  During the Romantic era, the open window appeared either as the sole subject or the main feature in many pictures of interiors that were filled with a poetic play of light and perceptible silence. Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 5 through July 4, 2011, is the first exhibition to focus on this motif as captured by German, Danish, French, and Russian artists around 1810–20. Works in the exhibition range from the initial appearance of the motif in two sepia drawings of about 1805–06 by Caspar David Friedrich to paintings of luminous empty rooms from the late 1840s by Adolph Menzel. The show features 31 oil paintings and 26 works on paper, and consists mostly of generous loans from museums in Germany, Denmark, France, Italy, Austria, Sweden, and the United States.

• Night Vision at Metropolitan Museum Features 20th-Century Photography Made After Dark

  Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Night Vision: Photography After Dark, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 26 through September 18, 2011, will feature photography of the 20th century inspired by the pleasure, danger, and allure of the night. For more than 100 years photographers have been drawn to the challenge of making images after dark, capturing the aesthetic effects of nighttime rain, early-morning fog, shining street lamps, and dimly lit rooms. Modern camera artists have been captivated by glowing skyscrapers, dazzling neon signs, glittering nightlife, and the shadowy realm of the nocturnal underworld. Highlights of the Metropolitan's exhibition include classic night photography of the 1930s-1950s by Berenice Abbott, Bill Brandt, Brassaï, Robert Frank, André Kertész, William Klein, Weegee, and Garry Winogrand, as well as three early photographs by Diane Arbus that have never been shown or published before, and recently acquired photographs by Peter Hujar and Kohei Yoshiyuki.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  May 2011

  Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Menahem Pressler & the Emerson String Quartet; Simone Dinnerstein in Recital;
  Sharon Isbin & the Salomé Chamber Orchestra;
  Tiempo Libre Performing from a New CD My Secret Radio;
  Dan Zanes & Friends; and Nimet Habachy's Chat with Deborah Voigt

• Metropolitan Museum Adds New "Spring Break" Holiday to Roster of Met Holiday Mondays

  Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Guitar Heroes and Other Special Exhibitions on View Monday, April 25