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• Metropolitan Museum Initiative Provides Free Access to 400,000 Digital Images

  Thursday, January 2, 2014, 5:00 a.m.

• Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of United Nations, Visits Korean Art Exhibition at Met Museum

  Monday, December 23, 2013, 5:00 a.m.

• New Season of Early Music Performances Marks 75th Anniversary Year at The Cloisters Featured Groups Include Waverly Consort, Lionheart, Orlando Consort, Blue Heron, Pomerium, and Sequentia

  Thursday, November 21, 2013, 5:00 a.m.

• New Trustees Charles N. Atkins, Blair Effron, John Paulson, and Dr. Samantha Boardman Rosen Elected at Metropolitan Museum

  Wednesday, November 13, 2013, 5:00 a.m.

• Statement by The Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Ruling by Justice Shirley Werner Kornreich

  Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum and SFMOMA Jointly Acquire Major William Kentridge Installation

  Saturday, October 26, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• New Lease Amendment Signed by Metropolitan Museum and City of New York, Confirming Longstanding Admissions Policy

  Thursday, October 24, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Masterpieces of Tibetan and Nepalese Art: Recent Acquisitions
  September 17, 2013–February 2, 2014

  Sunday, October 20, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Fifty Years of Collecting Islamic Art
  September 24, 2013-January 26, 2014

  Saturday, October 19, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Portraits by Julia Margaret Cameron, One of Photography's Early Masters, on Display at the Met Beginning August 19
  August 19, 2013–January 5, 2014

  Friday, October 18, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Roof Garden Installation by Imran Qureshi to Open at Metropolitan Museum May 14
  May 14–November 3, 2013 (weather permitting)

  Thursday, October 17, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche on Display for Holiday Season at Metropolitan Museum
  November 26, 2013–January 6, 2014

  Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 2:40 p.m.

• Expressive Art of Japanese Calligraphy on View in Exhibition Opening August 17 at Metropolitan Museum
  August 17, 2013–January 12, 2014

  Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Judaica on View during Hanukkah at Metropolitan Museum

  Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 2:39 p.m.

• New Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum Explores Three Centuries of Worldwide Textile Trade
  September 16, 2013–January 5, 2014

  Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 2:36 p.m.

• Medieval Church Treasures from Hildesheim Featured in Fall Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum
  September 17, 2013–January 5, 2014

  Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 2:34 p.m.

• First Exhibition to Focus on Prints by French Artists and Amateurs of the 18th Century at Metropolitan Museum
  October 1, 2013–January 5, 2014

  Tuesday, October 15, 2013, 2:32 p.m.

• Major Plains Indian Exhibition to Open in Paris, Travel to Kansas City and New York City

  Monday, October 14, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Legends of Baseball’s Dead Ball Era (1900–1919) from the Burdick Collection
  July 8–December 1, 2013

  Sunday, October 13, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• LAST CHANCE: Sound Installation by Janet Cardiff at The Cloisters—the First Contemporary Work at the Metropolitan Museum’s Renowned Branch for Medieval Art and Architecture
  September 10–December 8, 2013

  Saturday, October 12, 2013, 2:35 p.m.

• Three Metropolitan Museum Exhibitions Stimulate $742 Million 2013 Economic Impact for New York

  Monday, October 7, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum to Live Stream Its All-day, Sold-out TEDxMet Event This Saturday, October 19

  Monday, October 7, 2013

• Apollo Circle Benefit on November 14 at Metropolitan Museum Marks Event’s 10th Anniversary

  Sunday, October 6, 2013, 11:00 p.m.

• ICOM Officially Announces the Publication of the Emergency Red List of Syrian Cultural Objects at Risk

  Sunday, October 6, 2013, 10:00 p.m.

• ¡Fiesta! at Metropolitan Museum Celebrates Hispanic and Latin Cultures With Afternoon of Free Programs and Performances

  Sunday, October 6, 2013, 9:00 p.m.

• メトロポリタン美術館が新しいウェブ機能、一つのMET。世界のアート。（One Met. Many Worlds.）を11カ国語で開始します。

  Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Trumbull’s Iconic Portrait of Alexander Hamilton Now on View at Metropolitan Museum

  Wednesday, September 25, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Trumbull’s Iconic Portrait of Alexander Hamilton Comes to Metropolitan Museum

  Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Léger Masterpiece The Village—Acquired through Additional Gift from Leonard A. Lauder—Now on View at Metropolitan Museum

  Friday, September 20, 2013, 9:50 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Celebrates “An Evening of Many Cultures” with Gala and Dance Party on September 23

  Friday, September 20, 2013, 9:00 p.m.

• Diana Craig Patch Named Lila Acheson Wallace Curator in Charge of Department of Egyptian Art at Metropolitan Museum

  Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 9:00 p.m.

• Curatorial Appointments at Metropolitan Museum Bring Renewed Attention to Artistic Traditions across the Americas, Both Before and Beyond Colonialism

  Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

• Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective—Major Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum Opens June 18
  June 18–September 22, 2013

  Tuesday, September 10, 2013, 11:45 a.m.

• Met Museum Presents - December 2013

  Friday, September 6, 2013, 8:30 p.m.

• Met Museum Presents - January & February 2014

  Friday, September 6, 2013, 8:15 p.m.

• Met Museum Presents - Chamber Opera at the Met in 2013-14:

  Friday, September 6, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Unveils New Adventure Travel Program

  Thursday, September 5, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum’s Expanded, Renovated, and Reinstalled New European Paintings Galleries,
  1250-1800, Open May 23

  Friday, August 23, 2013, 10:00 a.m.

• Picasso Masterpiece Now on View as Special Preview of Gift of Major Cubist Collection from Leonard A. Lauder

  Friday, August 23, 2013, 9:30 a.m.

• Design Motifs in Byzantine Art
  August 6, 2013–August 3, 2014

  Friday, August 23, 2013, 9:00 a.m.

• Photographs and Videos from the Last Four Decades Capture "Everyday Epiphanies" in Metropolitan Museum Exhibition
  June 25, 2013 - January 26, 2014

  Friday, August 23, 2013, 8:30 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Celebrates 100-year Anniversary of Arms and Armor Department with Special Exhibition in Recently Refurbished Galleries
  October 2, 2012 – September 29, 2013

  Friday, August 23, 2013, 8:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Announces Speakers and Performers for Unprecedented TEDxMet Event on Saturday, October 19
  

  Tuesday, August 6, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Joanna Prosser Named Vice President for Merchandising at Metropolitan Museum

  Monday, August 5, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Reaches One Million Visitors in 18 Months to New Galleries for American Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts

  Friday, August 2, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum to Inaugurate Global Museum Leaders Colloquium in Spring 2014

  Thursday, July 25, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Now Open 7 Days a Week

  Monday, July 1, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Sree Sreenivasan Named the Metropolitan Museum’s First Chief Digital Officer

  Thursday, June 20, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Gerald L. Hassell and Kathryn S. Wylde Honored at Metropolitan Museum's 2013 Corporate Benefit

  Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 5:45 p.m.

• P.S. Art 2013, Annual Juried Exhibition of Art by NYC Public School Students, on View at the Metropolitan Museum
  June 11 - August 25, 2013

  Monday, June 10, 2013, 4:00 a.m.