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  • 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.