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• Metropolitan Museum Announces 5.24 Million Annual Attendance, Highest Since 2001, as Fiscal Year Ends

  Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, June 30, 2010)—Attendance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art reached 5,240,000 visitors during the fiscal year that ends today, June 30, the Museum has announced. This is the first year since 2001 that attendance at the Metropolitan has exceeded five million. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, ranks among the highest in its entire 130-year history.

• Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View at Met Museum in
  Celebration of the Musician's 70th Birthday
  
  

  Monday, June 28, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  July 'Artists Den' National Television Broadcast Features Ringo Starr at the Met

• Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View at Met Museum in
  Celebration of the Musician's 70th Birthday
  
  

  Monday, June 28, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  July 'Artists Den' National Television Broadcast Features Ringo Starr
  at the Met

• Contemporary Photography and Video Featured in Between Here and There at Metropolitan Museum

  Sunday, June 13, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Themes of dislocation and displacement in contemporary photography will be explored in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's forthcoming exhibition in the Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography. Drawn almost entirely from the Museum's collection, Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography on view July 2, 2010 through February 21, 2011, will feature 22 artists whose photographic works convey a sense of a rootless or unfixed existence.

• El Museo Metropolitano lanza una nueva función web interactiva Un Met. Muchos Mundos. en 11 idiomas

  Thursday, June 10, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• Метрполитен-Музей запускает новую интерактивную интернет-функцию «Один Мет. Много Миров» на 11 языках

  Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• O Metropolitan Museum de Nova York, o MET, lança uma nova ferramenta interativa: One Met. Many Worlds. em 11 línguas

  Monday, June 7, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• 메트로폴리탄 박물관은 새로운 인터랙티브한 웹 기능인 하나의 MET. 다양한 세계.를 11개의 언어로 출시합니다

  Sunday, June 6, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• Il Metropolitan Museum lancia Un solo Met. Tanti Mondi, nuova applicazione web interattiva in 11 lingue

  Saturday, June 5, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum startet neues interaktives Web-Feature "Ein Met. Zahllose Welten." in 11 Sprachen

  Friday, June 4, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• Leon Levinstein's Rarely Seen New York City Street Photographs On View at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  A master of classic American street photography, Leon Levinstein (American, 1910–1988) is best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure studies made in New York City neighborhoods from Times Square and the Lower East Side to Coney Island. From June 8 through October 17, 2010, The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950-1980. This exhibition, drawn exclusively from the Metropolitan's collection, features 44 photographs that reflect Levinstein's fearless approach to the medium. Levinstein's graphic virtuosity—seen in raw, expressive gestures and seemingly monumental bodies—is balanced by an unusual compassion for his off-beat subjects from the demimonde.

• P.S. Art 2010 Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum
  Juried Display of Art by NYC Public School Students on View

  Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Exceptional works of art by 70 New York City public school students, ages four through 20, will be displayed in the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education at The Metropolitan Museum of Art for two months this summer through P.S. Art, a collaborative program between the New York City Department of Education and Studio in a School Association, Inc. The juried exhibition P.S. Art 2010: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of NYC Kids will open for special viewing by the public beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 8, for participants in the Museum Mile Festival, and will remain on view through August 8.

• June 8 Events at Met Museum: P.S. Art Opening, Museum Mile, and Cool Culture

  Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  WHAT: Three photo ops/one evening:

• Le Metropolitan Museum lance une nouvelle fonction interactive en onze langues sur Internet: Un Met. Des Mondes.

  Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• 大都会艺术博物馆以11种语言推出全新观众互动网页"来MET参观。看多元文化。"

  Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• متحف المتروبوليتان للفنون (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) يُطلق تطبيقًا تفاعليًّا جديدًا على الشبكة "METحف واحد، عوالم كثيرة" (One Met. Many Worlds) بإحدى عشرة لغة.

  Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Partners with Berg Publishers to Make Costume Institute Images Available

  Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, June 2, 2010) -- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it has entered a partnership with Berg Publishers, the leading academic and reference imprint owned by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, to enable more than 2,000 images of The Costume Institute's collection to be made available through the Berg Fashion Library, a new online resource launching in late June 2010.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces 2010-2011 Concert Season

  Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  57th Season Features Acclaimed PianoForte Recitals; New York Philharmonic CONTACT! Series; Pacifica Quartet's Season of Shostakovich; Music from Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, and the Philippines; Itzhak Perlman, Chanticleer, Sharon Isbin, Patti Smith, Judy Collins, Christine Ebersole, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and More

• Metropolitan Museum Announces Departure of Concerts & Lectures General Manager Hilde Limondjian

  Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that Hilde Limondjian, who has been the General Manager of its Concerts & Lectures series since 1969, will step down from the position on June 30, 2010, at the conclusion of the series' 56th season. Ms. Limondjian has programmed 41 seasons of music and lectures – more than 9,000 events – at the Metropolitan Museum that comprise not only the oldest continually offered major concert series in New York, but one of the most esteemed.

• Schedule of Exhibitions Through December 2016

  Monday, May 17, 2010, 3:01 p.m.

• Schedule of Exhibitions Through December 2016

  Monday, May 17, 2010, 3:01 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Announces New Schedule of "Met Holiday Mondays"

  Sunday, May 9, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, May 10, 2010) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the schedule for the next seven Met Holiday Mondays—extra public viewing days that take place on the Mondays of major holiday weekends, when historically the Museum has been closed. A different selection of exhibitions will be open on each Met Holiday Monday. The Metropolitan's public cafeteria and several of the gift shops in the main building will be open on all of these special viewing days.

• Spring and Summer Attractions in the Gardens at The Cloisters

  Sunday, May 9, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  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.

• "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity" at Metropolitan Museum to Open May 5, 2010; First Costume Institute Exhibition Based on Renowned Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection

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

  The spring 2010 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, the first drawn from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Met. The exhibition, on view from May 5 through August 15, 2010, explores developing perceptions of the modern American woman from the 1890s to the 1940s, and how they have affected the way American women are seen today. Focusing on archetypes of American femininity through dress, the exhibition reveals how the American woman initiated style revolutions that mirrored her social, political, and sartorial emancipation. Early mass-media representations of American women established the fundamental characteristics of American style – a theme explored via a multimedia installation in the final gallery.

• Press Guidelines for Visiting Elevated Pathways of Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú

  Thursday, April 22, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú

• Doug and Mike Starn Create Monumental Sculpture for Metropolitan Museum's 2010 Roof Garden Installation

  Thursday, April 22, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  American artists Mike and Doug Starn (born 1961) have been invited by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to create a site-specific installation for The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, opening to the public on April 27. The identical twin brothers will present their new work, Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You Won't Stop, a monumental bamboo structure ultimately measuring 100 feet long by 50 feet wide by 50 feet high in the form of a cresting wave that will bridge realms of sculpture, architecture, and performance. Visitors are meant to witness the creation and evolving incarnations of Big Bambú as it is constructed throughout the spring, summer, and fall by the artists and a team of rock climbers. Set against Central Park and its urban backdrop, the installation Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú will suggest the complexity and energy of an ever-changing living organism. It will comprise the 13th consecutive single-artist installation for the Cantor Roof Garden.

• 300 Picasso Works in Metropolitan Museum's Collection Featured in Landmark Exhibition Opening April 27

  Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a landmark exhibition of 300 works by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), will provide an unprecedented opportunity to see one of the most important collections in the world of the artist's work. On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 27 through August 15, 2010, this is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the remarkable array of works by Picasso in the Met's collection. The exhibition will reveal the Museum's complete holdings of the artist's paintings, drawings, sculptures, and ceramics—never before seen in their entirety—as well as a significant number of his prints.

• LONDON TO NEW YORK VIA...ICELAND?
  PIANIST PAUL LEWIS IS TRYING TO GET TO NEW YORK SO THE SHOW CAN GO ON AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ON SATURDAY, APRIL 24

  Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  English pianist Paul Lewis has a recital to perform this Saturday, April 24, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the Tuesday flight he had booked from London to New York was canceled because of the spreading ash cloud from Iceland's volcanic eruption, and the best he could do to reschedule was standby on Saturday, the day of the concert.

• Grande exposition au Met pour célébrer le patrimoine artistique, technologique et culturel des Seldjoukides, une influente dynastie islamique médiévale

  Sunday, April 18, 2010, 4:01 p.m.

• نمایشگاهی بزرگ در موزه مترپلیتن میراث هنری، فنی، و فرهنگی سلجوقیان، سلسله با نفوذ اسلامی قرون وسطی، را جشن می گیرد

  Thursday, April 15, 2010, 2:27 p.m.

• 300 obras de Picasso de la colección del Metropolitan Museum se presentan en una gran exposición que abrirá al público el 27 de abril (Spanish)

  Thursday, April 15, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, es una exposición emblemática compuesta por 300 obras de Pablo Picasso (Español, 1881–1973), que brinda una oportunidad sin precedentes de contemplar una de las colecciones más importantes del mundo de la obra de este artista. Se trata de la primera muestra que se centra exclusivamente en la extraordinaria colección que el Met atesora de Picasso. Abrirá sus puertas al público desde el 27 de abril hasta el 15 de agosto de 2010. La exposición presentará la colección completa, nunca antes vista en su totalidad, que el Museo posee del artista: pinturas, dibujos, esculturas y cerámicas, así como un número significativo de sus grabados.

• Nýu-Ýork şäherindäki “The Met” (Metropoliten) sungat muzeýinde Orta asyrlaryň kuwwatly yslam dinastiýasy bolan Seljuklaryň çeperçilik, tehnologiýa we medeni mirasyna bagyşlanyp uly sergi geçirilýär

  Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 2:01 p.m.

• Обширная экспозиция в музее Метрополитен освещает художественное, техническое и культурное наследие Сельджукидов, влиятельной исламской династии Средневековья.

  Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 1:52 p.m.

• معرض كبير في متحف المتروبوليتان للفنون يحتفي بالتراث الفني والتكنولوجي والثقافي لأسرة السلاجقة صاحبة التأثير الكبير في التاريخ الإسلامي في القرون الوسطى

  Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 7:19 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art'ta, Ortaçağ Döneminde İz Bırakan İslam Hanedanı Selçukluların Sanatsal, Teknolojik ve Kültürel Mirası Üzerine Büyük Bir Sergi Yer Alacak

  Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 4:06 p.m.

• Bedeutende Ausstellung im Metropolitan Museum zur Kunst, Wissenschaft und Kultur der einflussreichen, mittelalterlichen islamischen Dynastie der Seldschuken

  Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 3:59 p.m.

• The Roof Garden Commission: Adrián Villar Rojas,
  The Theater of Disappearance

  Monday, April 12, 2010, 5:12 p.m.

• Splendid Rediscovered 18th-Century Silver Service on View in New Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum

  Monday, April 12, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Eighteenth-century European court society was famous for its lavish banquets featuring elaborate settings and protocols designed to indicate the status of both host and guests. Integral to these events were extravagant dining services of silver and gold, many of which subsequently were melted down to finance the frequent wars of the period. Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered, now on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through November 7, 2010, presents a magnificent and rare surviving Imperial silver service, made about 1779-1782 for Duke Albert Casimir of Sachsen-Teschen (1738-1822) and his consort, Habsburg Archduchess Marie Christine of Austria (1742-1798), daughter of Empress Maria Theresa.

• An Overview of the Museum

  Sunday, April 11, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include 1.5 million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  May 2010

  Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  A Gaggle of Pianists: Alexei Volodin with Members of the New York Philharmonic, Nikolai Lugansky Rounding Out the PianoForte Series, and The 5 Browns – Also, a Chat with Renée Fleming, and a Performance by Dan Zanes & Friends

• Oberlin's Masterpieces on View at Metropolitan Museum

  Monday, March 15, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Founded in 1917, the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College is one of the finest college or university collections in the United States, serving as an invaluable educational resource for aspiring art scholars. While the museum is closed in 2010 for renovations, 20 of their masterpieces—19 paintings and one sculpture—are on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art for five months in the special exhibition Side by Side: Oberlin's Masterworks at the Met. These include the great Ter Brugghen painting Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene (one of the most important North Baroque paintings in the U.S.), Cézanne's Viaduct at l'Estaque, Kirchner's Self-Portrait as a Soldier, and a striking Kirchner sculpture. Each of these works is integrated into the Metropolitan Museum's excellent collection, creating new, provocative juxtapositions.

• Metropolitan Museum Lectures in The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
  March and April 2010

  Sunday, March 14, 2010, 5:00 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.

• Objects and Materials from the Funeral of Tutankhamun on View at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, March 11, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  In 1908, while excavating in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, American archaeologist Theodore Davis discovered about a dozen large storage jars. Their contents included broken pottery, bags of natron (a mixture of sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, sodium sulphate, and sodium chloride that occurs naturally in Egypt), bags of sawdust, floral collars, and pieces of linen with markings from years 6 and 8 during the reign of a then little-known pharaoh named Tutankhamun. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was given six of the vessels and a good part of their contents in 1909.

• Birthday Celebrations in Chinese Art to be Theme of New Installation at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, March 11, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  A new installation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art explores themes of birthday celebrations and long life in Chinese art. Drawn entirely from the Museum's collection and promised gifts, and on view in The Florence and Herbert Irving Galleries for Chinese Decorative Arts, Celebration: The Birthday in Chinese Art showcases more than 50 works—paintings, garments, and decorative art objects—depicting the birthday and longevity themes that were pervasive in China especially during the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties. While the earliest work in the installation is a 13th-century painting, most date from the 16th to 18th centuries. Celebration includes several works never before exhibited, including a monumental 18th-century tapestry (kesi) woven in silk and gold with the character for longevity shou as well as a recently acquired lacquer box with mother-of-pearl inlays capturing a party setting and lively boys at play. The installation will remain on view through August 15, 2010.

• Jennifer Russell to Rejoin Metropolitan Museum As Associate Director for Exhibitions

  Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  (New York, March 10, 2010)—Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that Jennifer Russell will return to the Museum as Associate Director for Exhibitions. She is currently Senior Deputy Director of Exhibitions, Collections, and Programs at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She had worked at the Metropolitan Museum as Associate Director for Administration from 1993 to 1996, and will rejoin the Museum in her new role effective April 26. She was formally elected at the March 9 meeting of the Board of Trustees.

• The Honorable W. L. Lyons Brown, Jr., Elected an Honorary Trustee at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Monday, March 8, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  (New York—March 9, 2010) The Honorable William Lee Lyons Brown, Jr., former Ambassador of the United States to the Republic of Austria, has been elected an Honorary Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced today by James R. Houghton, the Museum's Chairman. The election took place at the March 9 meeting of the Board.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  April 2010

  Monday, March 8, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  The New York Philharmonic's CONTACT! Features Alan Gilbert and Thomas Hampson, Chanticleer Performs a Program of Music from Plainchant to Chen Yi, Pianist Paul Lewis Performs His Only New York Recital of the Season, and Dianne Reeves Makes a Return to the Met

• Evocative Medieval Mourning Sculptures from Court of Burgundy Featured in Metropolitan Museum Exhibition

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

  The renowned 15th-century sculptors Jean de la Huerta and Antoine Le Moiturier labored together for more than 25 years on a grand and complex commission: the tomb of John the Fearless (Jean sans Peur, 1371–1419), the second Duke of Burgundy, and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria, which featured 41 alabaster mourning figures, among other elements. Following the precedent of the mourners carved for the tomb of Philip the Bold, the first Duke of Burgundy, de la Huerta and Le Moiturier created astonishingly realistic and highly individualized pleurants (mourners) that serve as a permanent record of the lavish funeral of one of the richest men in medieval France. The figures express a broad range of powerful emotions—from melancholy to desolation—through facial expression, gesture, and the eloquent draping of garments. The renovation of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, France—where 37 of the statuettes from the tomb of John the Fearless are housed—provides an opportunity for the unprecedented loan of these figures for the exhibition The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy, opening March 2 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the first venue in an eight-city tour. Three additional figures from the tomb of John the Fearless (now in the collections of the Louvre, the Musée National du Moyen Âge, and the Cleveland Museum of Art) and three from the tomb of Philip the Bold will also be shown, along with an architectural element (Cleveland Museum of Art and Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, respectively). The installation at the Metropolitan will be supplemented by related works from the Museum's collection, including the monumental Enthroned Virgin from the convent at Poligny (established by John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria) that was carved by Claus de Werve.

• Sumptuously Illustrated Medieval Manuscript—The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry—On View at Metropolitan Museum

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

  One of the most beautiful manuscripts in the world is the lavishly illustrated medieval prayer book known as the Belles Heures (Beautiful Hours). It was created by the Limbourg Brothers—three of the greatest illuminators in Europe—for one of the most famous art patrons of all time, Jean de France, duc de Berry (1340–1416). The son, brother, and uncle to three successive kings of France, Jean de France commissioned luxury works in many media—from chalices to castles—without regard for cost, but is best remembered for his patronage of manuscripts. Herman, Paul, and Jean de Limbourg were in their teens when he selected them to create a sumptuous Book of Hours for his private prayers, and he allowed the young artists rare latitude in designing the work.

• Το Met παρουσιάζει τρεις αιώνες ελληνικής τέχνης, από τον Αλέξανδρο έως την Κλεοπάτρα

  Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 3:26 p.m.