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• Views and Souvenirs from the Grand Tour Assembled in New Installation at Metropolitan Museum

  Sunday, October 17, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  In the 18th century, privileged Europeans embarked on the Grand Tour, traveling principally to sites in Italy, where they visited cherished ruins of the ancient world and the splendid architecture of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. The influx of these travelers to destinations north and south – Venice, Rome, and Naples in particular – led to a flowering of topographical paintings, drawings, and prints by native Italians serving a foreign market eager to return home with pictures and souvenirs. Italy Observed: Views and Souvenirs, 1706-1899, currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum through January 2, 2011, showcases a selection of the rich holdings of Italian vedute (views) collected by Robert Lehman. From paintings of Venetian life by Luca Carlevaris to a Neapolitan album of gouache drawings documenting the eruption of Vesuvius in 1794 to sketches and watercolors of Italian antiquities, the installation captures the artist's romantic attraction to Italy and its irresistible Roman heritage. It also includes various marketed souvenirs—exquisite fans, spoons, teapots, and pocket watches—on loan from the Museum's Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts.

• CLOSING JANUARY 5:
  Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800 (pictured below);
  Julia Margaret Cameron;
  Medieval Treasures from Hildesheim;
  and Artist and Amateurs: Etching in Eighteenth-Century France

  Friday, October 15, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• Contemporary Artist John Baldessari's Groundbreaking Work Featured in Major Retrospective at Metropolitan Museum

  Wednesday, October 13, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Widely renowned as a pioneer of conceptual art, American artist John Baldessari (b. 1931, National City, California) is one of the most influential contemporary artists of the last 50 years. John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, the first major U.S. exhibition in 20 years to survey Baldessari's career, will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from October 20, 2010, through January 9, 2011. This retrospective will feature approximately 120 works spanning the period from 1962 to 2010.

• World of Khubilai Khan and Other Special Exhibitions Open for Columbus Day
  Monday, October 11

  Thursday, October 7, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, October 7, 2010)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art's next upcoming Holiday Monday—Columbus Day, October 11—will give visitors a special opportunity to view such new and popular fall exhibitions as The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty and to spend time in the Museum's encyclopedic collections galleries. The Metropolitan Museum announced today that April 25, 2011—the Monday when many schools will be closed for spring break—has just been added to the roster of Met Holiday Mondays for the coming year.

• First Exhibition in 45 Years Devoted to Northern Renaissance Master Jan Gossart on View at Metropolitan Museum

  Wednesday, October 6, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The first major exhibition in 45 years devoted to Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532)— one of the most innovative artists of the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands— is on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from October 6, 2010, through January 17, 2011. Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance brings together the majority of Gossart's paintings, drawings, and prints, and places them in the context of the influences on his transformation from Late Gothic Mannerism to the new Renaissance mode. Gossart was among the first northern artists to travel to Rome to make copies after antique sculpture and monuments and to introduce biblical and mythological subjects with erotic nude figures into the mainstream of northern painting. Most often credited with successfully assimilating Italian Renaissance style into northern European art of the early 16th century, he is the pivotal Old Master who redirected the course of early Flemish painting from the legacy of its founder, Jan van Eyck, and charted new territory that eventually led to the great age of Rubens.

• 修道院藝術博物館內的花園

  Thursday, September 30, 2010, 9:41 p.m.

• Innovative Furniture by American Designer
  Charles Rohlfs Displayed at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, September 30, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Praised by the international press and exhibited throughout the United States and Europe at the turn of the 20th century, the American furniture designer Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936) created innovative works that combined elements of Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, and proto-modernism in surprising and original ways. In a meteoric career that barely spanned one decade, he designed only a few hundred works—many of them for his own home. While Rohlfs's forms were too eccentric for the commercial market of his time, he achieved recognition as a unique voice and seminal force in the history of American art furniture.

• Les jardins du Met Cloisters

  Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 9:16 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  November 2010

  Monday, September 27, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Gabriela Montero and Gautier Capuçon Play Rachmaninoff & Prokofiev, New York Philharmonic CONTACT! Program Features Lindberg & Grisey Premieres,
  Pianist Alessio Bax Makes His New York Recital Debut,
  Patti Smith Riffs on Khubilai Khan,
  Concerts Feature Music from Philippines & Mexico, and A Chanticleer Christmas

• Cinco Séculos de Engenho Estético e Interacções Culturais do Congo a Serem Explorados em Exposição Histórica no Museu Metropolitano a Partir de Setembro

  Saturday, September 25, 2010, 6:59 p.m.

• Wendy Lesser, Author of a Soon-to-be-Released Biography of Dmitri Shostakovich, to Host Pre-Concert Conversations for Pacifica Quartet's Shostakovich String Quartet Concerts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Beginning October 23

  Sunday, September 19, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Wendy Lesser, author of the book Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets, to be published by Yale University Press in March 2011, will host pre-concert conversations before each of the four performances in the Pacifica Quartet's Shostakovich string quartet cycle, part of the Metropolitan Museum Concerts' 2010-2011 season.

• Arms and Armor

  Monday, September 13, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art received its first examples of arms and armor in 1896. Thanks to a substantial group of Japanese arms and armor and a major private collection of European arms and armor, both acquired by purchase in 1904, the Museum's collection quickly achieved international recognition. This led to the establishment of a separate Department of Arms and Armor in 1912, which remains the only one of its kind in the United States. Always among the Museum's most popular attractions, the Arms and Armor Galleries were renovated and reinstalled in 1991 to better display the outstanding collection of armor and weapons of sculptural and ornamental beauty from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and America. The collection ranks with the other great armories of the world, in Vienna, Madrid, Dresden, and Paris.

• The Great Hall of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Monday, September 13, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The Great Hall has been the majestic main entry of The Metropolitan Museum of Art for more than a century. When it opened to the public in December 1902, the Evening Post newspaper reported that at last New York had a neoclassical palace of art, "one of the finest in the world, and the only public building in recent years which approaches in dignity and grandeur the museums of the old world." Architect Richard Morris Hunt, who was one of the founding trustees of the Metropolitan and the most fashionable architect of his day, designed both the Museum's classical Beaux-Arts Fifth Avenue façade and the Great Hall, which now greets more than five million visitors each year. Hunt did not live to see the project completed—after his death in 1895, his son Richard Howland Hunt carried out the final stages of work.

• Candace K. Beinecke Named Elective Trustee at Metropolitan Museum

  Monday, September 13, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The election of Candace K. Beinecke to the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art was announced today by James R. Houghton, the Museum's Chairman. Ms. Beinecke's election took place at the September 14 meeting of the Board.

• ¡Fiesta! at Metropolitan Museum Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with Full Day of Programs and Performances

  Monday, September 13, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  ¡Fiesta! Celebrating Hispanic and Latin American Culture, will be presented on September 25, 2010 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art by the Museum's Multicultural Audience Development Initiative and its Education Department. ¡Fiesta! is the Metropolitan's first Museum-wide, all-day event in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, and it features programs for all ages from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. ¡Fiesta! offers visitors art-making activities, talks, Museum tours, music and dance performances, films, and many more engaging programs related to Latin American art from the Metropolitan Museum's collection. Nearly all the ¡Fiesta! programs are free with Museum admission.

• "First Person: Seeing America"
  Combines Images from the Photographic Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art with Music from Ensemble Galilei and Narration by Neal Conan and Lily Knight Saturday, October 16, 2010

  Monday, September 13, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The strings, winds, and percussion group Ensemble Galilei, narrator Neal Conan of NPR, and actress Lily Knight collaborate to present "First Person: Seeing America," a program combining words and music with iconic images from the Photographic Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, as part of the Metropolitan Museum Concerts series on Saturday, October 16, at 7:00 p.m.

• Hamilton E. James Named Elective Trustee at Metropolitan Museum

  Monday, September 13, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Hamilton ("Tony") E. James, the president and chief operating officer of The Blackstone Group, has been elected to the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced today by James R. Houghton, the Museum's Chairman. The election took place at the September 14 meeting of the Board.

• The Yuan Revolution: Art and Dynastic Change

  Sunday, September 12, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The Yuan Revolution: Art and Dynastic Change, a complement to the exhibition The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty, traces the momentous stylistic transformation in painting and calligraphy that began under Mongol rule and culminated in the literati traditions of the early Ming. Featuring more than 70 works in all pictorial formats—hanging scrolls, handscrolls, album leaves, and fans—the installation focuses on the rise of a new scholarly aesthetic in the graphic arts that occurred in response to the wrenching social and political changes brought about by the Mongol conquest. Drawn primarily from the Metropolitan's own holdings, the installation also includes 17 important loans from local private and university collections.

• Modern Works by Artist Joan Miró Displayed at Metropolitan Museum with Dutch Old Master Paintings That Inspired Them

  Sunday, September 12, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  During a trip to the Netherlands in spring 1928, the Catalan painter Joan Miró (1893–1983) purchased postcards from the museums he visited. Two 17th-century Dutch genre scenes particularly caught his attention and served as the inspiration for a series of paintings he created that summer. The traveling exhibition Miró: The Dutch Interiors, which opens at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning October 5, features Miró's three "Dutch Interiors" and the two Old Master paintings on which they are based. The New York venue will also show preparatory drawings and additional paintings by Miró in the Metropolitan's collection. This exhibition is the first in which Miró's paintings have been hung alongside the Dutch Golden Age pictures that inspired them.

• 服装艺术部中国主题特展以815,992名访客记录列大都会史上最受欢迎展览第五位

  Friday, September 10, 2010, 6:28 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  October 2010

  Thursday, September 9, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Pacifica Quartet Launches Its Shostakovich Cycle;
  Till Fellner Concludes Beethoven Sonata Series;
  Ensemble Galilei Offers Program of Words, Music & Images from Met Museum's
  Photographic Collection; David Kadouch Kicks Off Season's Piano Forte Series,
  and More

• Extraordinary Chinese Works from Dramatic Era of Khubilai Khan to Open in Landmark Fall Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum

  Monday, September 6, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a major international loan exhibition devoted to the art of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368)—one of the most dynamic and culturally rich periods in Chinese history—beginning September 28. Bringing together over 200 works drawn principally from China, with additional loans from Taiwan, Japan, Russia, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty will explore the art and material culture that flourished during the pivotal and vibrant period in Chinese culture and history dating from 1215, the year of Khubilai Khan's birth, to 1368, the fall of the Yuan dynasty. The assemblage of extraordinary works will include paintings and sculpture, as well as decorative arts in gold and silver, textile, ceramics, and lacquer, and the exhibition will highlight new art forms and styles that were generated in China as a result of the unification of the country under the Yuan dynasty, founded by Khubilai in 1271. The loans from China will include key pieces from recent archaeological finds that add immeasurably to our knowledge and understanding of Chinese art of this period.

• Kongo : Pouvoir et Majesté

  Saturday, August 28, 2010, 8:15 p.m.

• Met Cloisters의 정원

  Monday, August 23, 2010, 2:25 p.m.

• Hebrew Manuscripts on View during High Holy Days at Metropolitan Museum's Main Building and The Cloisters

  Sunday, August 22, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Two important medieval Hebrew manuscripts—a Mishneh Torah made between 1300 and 1400 in Germany and an illuminated leaf from a prayer book made in Austria around 1360—are on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters, respectively, in conjunction with the Jewish High Holy Days this fall. The Cloisters is the Metropolitan's branch museum dedicated to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. The High Holy Days are ten days of penitence and prayer that commence with Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) and end with Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), the most solemn day of the Jewish year. This year, the High Holy Days begin the evening of September 8.

• Next "Met Holiday Monday" on Labor Day, September 6

  Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Last Chance to See Tutankhamun's Funeral; Additional Viewing Opportunity for Popular Summer Exhibitions

• Metropolitan Museum Announces Picasso Exhibition Drew 700,000 Visitors in 17 Weeks

  Monday, August 16, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Seventh Highest Exhibition Attendance on Record at the Met

• Ancient Roman Mosaic from Israel on View at Metropolitan Museum

  Sunday, August 15, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  In 1996, workmen widening the Jerusalem–Tel Aviv road in Lod (formerly Lydda), Israel, made a startling discovery: signs of a Roman mosaic pavement were found about three feet below the modern ground surface. A rescue excavation was conducted immediately by the Israel Antiquities Authority, revealing a mosaic floor that measures approximately 50 feet long by 27 feet wide. It is of exceptional quality and in an excellent state of preservation. The mosaic, comprising seven panels, is symmetrically divided into two large "carpets" by a long rectangular horizontal panel, and the entire work is surrounded by a ground of plain white. To preserve the mosaic, it was reburied until funding was secured for its full scientific excavation and conservation. Recently removed from the ground, the three most complete and impressive panels will be exhibited to the general public for the first time when they go on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 28. The pavement is believed to come from the home of a wealthy Roman living in the Eastern Roman Empire in around A.D. 300. Because the mosaic's imagery has no overt religious content, it cannot be determined whether the owner was a pagan, a Jew, or a Christian.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  September 2010

  Monday, August 9, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Judy Collins at The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing,
  Dee Dee Bridgewater's Tribute to Billie Holliday, and
  "Strings of the Black Sea," Music from Bulgaria, Ukraine, Crimea, and Turkey

• 大都会艺术博物馆以12种语言推出应用程序82nd & Fifth，以同名获奖网上系列为基础，由100位策展人讲述激发他们灵感的100件艺术作品

  Saturday, August 7, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• 大都會藝術博物館以12種語言推出應用程式82nd & Fifth，以同名獲獎網上系列為基礎，由100位策展人講述激發他們靈感的100件藝術作品

  Friday, August 6, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• Le Metropolitan Museum lance son application « 82nd & Fifth » en 12 langues. Elle est fondée sur la série en ligne, primée, du même nom et montre 100 œuvres d’art et les 100 conservateurs qu’elles ont inspirés

  Thursday, August 5, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• Metropolitan Museum startet 82nd & Fifth App in 12 Sprachen, basierend auf der preisgekrönten Online Serie, die 100 Kunstwerke und 100 von ihnen inspirierten Kuratoren präsentieren

  Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• "The Met Cloisters" الحدائق في متحف

  Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 2:57 p.m.

• 修道院艺术博物馆内的花园

  Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 1:59 p.m.

• Il Metropolitan Museum lancia 82nd & Fifth, applicazione web in 12 lingue tratta dalla premiata serie online che mostra 100 opere d’arte e 100 curatori ad esse ispirati.

  Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• メトロポリタン美術館は 82nd & Fifthアプリを12カ国語でご紹介します。これは受賞歴のあるオンラインシリーズに基づき、100点もの美術品とそれらに影響を受けた100人の学芸員に焦点をあてています。

  Monday, August 2, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• 메트로폴리탄 박물관은 12개의 언어로 82nd & Fifth앱을 출시합니다. 이는 2013년 상을 수상한 온라인 시리즈로 100점의 작품을 100명의 큐레이터가 받은 영감을 토대로 보여 줍니다.

  Sunday, August 1, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• O Metropolitan Museum de Nova York, o MET, Lança o Aplicativo 82nd & Fifth em 12 Línguas, Baseado na Premiada Série Online, Apresentando 100 Obras de Arte e 100 Curadores Que Elas Inspiraram

  Saturday, July 31, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• Музей Метрополитен (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) запускает приложение 82nd & Fifth на двенадцати языках, основанное на знаменитой серии онлайн эпизодов, представляющей 100 произведений искусства и 100 кураторов, которых вдохновили эти работы. 

  Friday, July 30, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• El Museo Metropolitano (The Metropolitan Museum) lanza la aplicación 82nd & Fifth en 12 idiomas, basado en la galardonada serie online 100 obras de arte y 100 conservadores a los que inspiraron

  Thursday, July 29, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• Medieval Art and The Cloisters

  Monday, July 26, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The Middle Ages, the period between ancient and modern times in Western civilization, extends from the fourth to the early 16th century—that is, roughly from the Fall of Rome to the beginning of the Renaissance in Northern Europe. The Metropolitan Museum's collection of medieval art, one of the richest in the world, encompasses the art of this long and complex period in all its many phases, from its pre-Christian antecedents in western Europe through early medieval, the Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic periods. The Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, established in 1933, oversees both the collection in the Museum's main building on Fifth Avenue and that of The Cloisters in northern Manhattan.

• Ancient Near East

  Sunday, July 25, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art was formed in 1956, although the first objects to enter the collection—cuneiform tablets and stamp and cylinder seals—were acquired in the late 1800s.

• The American Wing

  Sunday, July 25, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The American Wing houses one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of American art in existence—more than 15,000 paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts objects—all of which are accessible to the public on four floors of gallery and study areas. It also features one of the Museum's loveliest and most popular spaces, The Charles Engelhard Court, a glassed-in garden featuring large-scale American sculptures, leaded-glass windows, and other architectural elements.

• Photographs

  Sunday, July 25, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Established as an independent curatorial department in 1992, the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Photographs houses a collection of more than 20,000 works acquired by the Museum over 80 years.

• Islamic Art

  Sunday, July 25, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The Metropolitan Museum's collection of Islamic art is the most comprehensive in the world. It includes more than 12,000 of the finest objects, dating from the seventh to the 20th century and reflecting the cultural and geographic sweep of historic Islamic civilization, which extends as far west as Spain, Morocco, and Senegal and as far east as India, Southeast Asia, and China. Outstanding holdings include the collections of glass and metalwork from Egypt, Syria, and Mesopotamia; more than 450 Islamic carpets—the largest collection in the United States, including a 16th-century Egyptian carpet in emerald green and wine red that is a masterpiece of Mamluk design and some 3,000 textiles; pages from a sumptuous copy of the Shahnama, or Book of Kings, created for Shah Tahmasp (1514-76), and other outstanding royal miniatures from the courts of Persia and Mughal India; and a 14th-century glazed ceramic mihrab, or prayer niche, from a theological school in Isfahan.

• Director Thomas P. Campbell Announces Curatorial and Conservation Appointments at Metropolitan Museum

  Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, July 22, 2010)—Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, today announced three appointments within the Museum's curatorial and conservation departments:

• Important Roman Sculpture Joins Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, July 8, 2010)—An ancient Roman group statue of great importance and beauty—a depiction of the Three Graces of Greek mythology—has been acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced today by Thomas P. Campbell, the Museum's Director. The marble sculpture is a second-century A.D. Roman copy of a Greek work from the second century B.C. Discovered in Rome in 1892, the statue has been on loan to the Museum from a private collector since 1992, and has been on view in the center of the Leon Levy and Shelby White Sculpture Court since it opened in 2007.

• Ramayana Manuscripts on View at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, July 1, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The Ramayana –The Story of Rama, one of the great epic narratives of South Asia literature, is the focus of an installation on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through September 26. Showcasing 30 brilliantly polychromed paintings and pictorial textiles that depict episodes from the narrative, Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana explores the magical power embodied in this ancient prose-narrative text that has so captured the imagination of Indian artists from early in the history of Indian art. The exhibition is drawn largely from the Metropolitan Museum's own collection, with some major loans from a New York private collection. The paintings on view were produced mostly during the 17th and 18th centuries in the Hindu court ateliers of Rajasthan, western India, and the Punjab Hills; others are of northern Indian provenance in a Sub-Imperial Mughal style.

• Italian Old Master Drawings from the Tobey Collection on View at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, July 1, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo presents 72 extraordinary works of the 16th through 18th centuries, from one of the preeminent collections of Italian Old Master drawings in private hands. It features masterpieces by gifted and historically important draftsmen—principally Italian masters but also artists whose careers brought them south of the Alps—among them Correggio, Parmigianino, Bernini, Poussin, Guercino, Canaletto, and Tiepolo. The drawings represent the principal centers of Italian art: Florence, Rome, Naples, Bologna, Parma, Venice, Genoa, and Milan. Their strikingly broad range of subject matter includes figure studies, historical and mythological narratives, landscapes, vedute, botanical drawings, motifs copied from or inspired by classical antiquity, and designs for painted compositions.