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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.