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• The Met Reframed: DJ Spooky in Residence
  Features Five Performances, Three Conversations, a Gallery Tour, and Two Workshops in the 2012-13 Season

  Sunday, September 23, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Artist in Residence DJ Spooky to Screen Classic Korean Film Madame Freedom with Live Performance of Original Score and to Participate in a Related Talk
  October 24 and 26, 2012

  Saturday, September 22, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Met Museum Presents Free Events Complementing the Exhibition Regarding Warhol September 2012

  Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 8:00 p.m.

• ETHEL Named New Resident Ensemble at Metropolitan Museum’s Balcony Bar Friday and Saturday Evenings

  Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 5:30 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum’s Main Building and Cloisters to be Open on Labor Day, September 3

  Thursday, August 16, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Met Museum Presents
  The Peony Pavilion, Version by Tan Dun and
  Huang Doudou
  Performed by Zhang Jun and the Shanghai Zhang Jun Art Center Company in The Astor Court

  Thursday, August 9, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Met Museum Presents
  Warhol Today: A Series of Talks, Tours and Performances Featuring Patti Smith, Dean & Britta, Kalup Linzy, and Others, Framing the Exhibition Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years at
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September—December 2012

  Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Jeff Rosenheim Named Curator in Charge, and Malcolm Daniel Named Senior Curator, of Metropolitan Museum’s Department of Photographs

  Thursday, July 26, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Pierre Terjanian Appointed Curator in Department of Arms and Armor at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, July 19, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Announces
  6.28 Million Attendance

  Monday, July 16, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, July 16, 2012)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that 6.28 million people visited the Met during the fiscal year that ended on June 30. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, is the highest recorded since the Metropolitan Museum began tracking visitor attendance more than 40 years ago. The total number of visitors was nearly 600,000 greater than in Fiscal Year 2011. 

• 大都会“中国:镜花水月”特展将延期至9月7日

  Saturday, July 7, 2012, 5:00 a.m.

• P.S. Art 2012 Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum, Juried Display of Art by NYC Public School Students

  Monday, June 11, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Dorothea Arnold to Become Curator Emeritus After 21 Years Heading Department of Egyptian Art and Distinguished 27-Year Tenure at Metropolitan Museum

  Tuesday, June 5, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

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  Metropolitan Museum “Holiday Mondays” Program Expands to Include Cloisters Museum and Gardens

  Thursday, May 17, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Creates Mobile Detective Game

  Friday, May 11, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Two Medals and a Plaquette Returned by Metropolitan Museum to Heirs of Munich-based Art Gallery

  Friday, May 11, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Met Museum Presents
  June 2012

  Tuesday, May 8, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Gifts from Mrs. Charles Wrightsman—Antico Sculpture, Boilly Painting, Ingres Drawings, and Other Exceptional Works of Art—Enrich Metropolitan Museum’s Collection

  Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Lecture on Cycladic and Early Greek Art at Metropolitan Museum

  Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• New Audio Tour by Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas P. Campbell Highlights Masterpieces of the Collection in Eight Languages

  Thursday, April 26, 2012, 10:00 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Announces Live Streaming from Red Carpet of Costume Institute Benefit

  Thursday, April 26, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Announces Live Streaming from Red Carpet of Costume Institute Benefit

  Sunday, April 8, 2012, 11:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Announces 2012-13 Season of Performances and Talks, Newly Renamed "Met Museum Presents"

  Thursday, April 5, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• MET MUSEUM PRESENTS
  MAY 2012

  Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Names Early Hudson River School Gallery for Jack and Susan Warner

  Friday, March 30, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum to Host Panel Discussion and Performance by The Baseball Project in Celebration of the Installation Breaking the Color Barrier in Major League Baseball

  Thursday, March 29, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Statement by The Metropolitan Museum of Art On Settlement of the Brooke Astor Estate

  Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum’s Main Building and Cloisters Celebrate Spring Break Week with Two Met Holiday Mondays, March 25 and April 1

  Tuesday, March 13, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Met Museum Presents 春季项目聚焦亚洲艺术

  Friday, March 2, 2012, 4:00 p.m.

• The Met Breuer Digital Press Kit

  Thursday, March 1, 2012, 8:48 p.m.

• About Marcel Breuer & The Breuer Building

  Thursday, March 1, 2012, 6:48 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts & Lectures
  April 2012

  Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 5:00 a.m.

• The Met Breuer Architect's Statement

  Sunday, February 26, 2012, 9:01 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Lectures
  March, April, and May 2012

  Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 5:00 a.m.

• Newly Reframed Painting of Washington, Newly Acquired Statuette of Lincoln on View Next Met Holiday Monday—Presidents’ Day, February 20—in Met’s New American Wing

  Tuesday, February 14, 2012, 5:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art Acquires Saint-Gaudens Standing Lincoln

  Sunday, February 12, 2012, 5:00 a.m.

• Lunar New Year Festival at Metropolitan Museum on February 4 Celebrates Chinese Arts and Culture

  Thursday, January 19, 2012, 5:00 a.m.

• Sheena Wagstaff to Head Metropolitan Museum’s New Modern and Contemporary Art Department

  Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 11:30 p.m.

• Marina Kellen French Establishes Curatorship in Metropolitan Museum’s Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

  Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 11:00 p.m.

• J. Tomilson Hill Elected Trustee of Metropolitan Museum

  Tuesday, January 10, 2012, 10:30 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  February 2012

  Monday, January 9, 2012, 5:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  March 2012

  Sunday, January 8, 2012, 5:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Enhances Online Access to Its Collections with Google Goggles

  Friday, December 16, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum "Holiday Mondays" Program Expands to Include Cloisters Museum and Gardens December 26 and January 2

  Tuesday, November 22, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  The Cloisters museum and gardens—The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s northern Manhattan branch dedicated to the art and architecture of medieval Europe—will be open to the public on two Mondays this coming holiday season: December 26 and January 2. “Holiday Mondays at The Cloisters” represent an expansion of the Metropolitan Museum’s popular “Met Holiday Mondays,” which began in 2004. These Monday openings will provide an opportunity for the public to visit either or both of the Museum’s two locations on the Mondays of long holiday weekends when, traditionally, the Museum has been closed. The Cloisters and the Metropolitan Museum’s main building will both be open on December 26 and January 2.
  
  

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  January 2012

  Monday, November 21, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum to Open Renovated Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

  Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  The grand reopening of a suite of 15 dramatic New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia will take place at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on November 1. The greatly enlarged, freshly conceived, and completely renovated galleries will house the Metropolitan’s renowned collection of Islamic art—one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of this material in the world. Design features within the new space will highlight both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the numerous cultures represented here; multiple entryways will allow visitors to approach the new galleries—and the art displayed within—from different perspectives. 

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  December 2011

  Monday, October 31, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  For tickets, visit www.metmuseum.org/tickets or call 212-570-3949. Tickets are also available at the Great Hall Box Office, which is open Tuesday-Saturday 10-5:00 and Sunday noon-5:00. Student and group discount tickets are available for some events; call 212-570-3949. Tickets include admission to the Museum on day of performance.
  

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  November 2011

  Thursday, October 6, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  The Alwan Arab Music Ensemble Performs at Museum's Great Hall Balcony Bar to Mark Opening of New Islamic Department Galleries; Compañia Flamenca José Porcel Performs "Gypsy Fire"; Pacifica Quartet Continues Its Beethoven Quartet Cycle; Mile Square Theater Presents "The Garden of Rikki Tikki Tavi" for Families; Chanticleer Begins Metropolitan Museum Christmas Concerts

• Metropolitan Museum to Open on October 10,
  Columbus Day “Met Holiday Monday”

  Thursday, October 6, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  A diverse roster of special exhibitions, permanent collection galleries, and amenities will be open to the public at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Columbus Day, October 10—the next in the series of Met Holiday Mondays.  These are extra public viewing days that take place on the Mondays of major holiday weeks and weekends, when historically the Museum has been closed. The four popular exhibitions that will be featured this Columbus Day are: Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum; Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures; Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine; and The Art of Dissent in 17th-century China: Masterpieces of Ming Loyalist Art from the Chih Lo Lou Collection.

• Metropolitan Museum Launches Expanded, Redesigned Website, Providing Unprecedented Access to Collections, Programs, Research, and Visitor Information

  Monday, September 26, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, September 26, 2011)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art has relaunched its website, www.metmuseum.org, it was announced today by Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Museum. Key features of the expanded and redesigned site include comprehensive access to more than 340,000 works of art in the Museum’s encyclopedic collections; extensive information and multimedia features on exhibitions, programs, and galleries; a completely new and streamlined design for greater ease of viewing the vast array of images, resources, and other material now online; and an interactive floor plan and multiple itineraries to enhance in-person visits to the Museum. The new website, which has been in preparation for three years, originally launched in 1996 and has not been thoroughly updated since 2000.