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• Metropolitan Museum’s September 26 Multicultural Benefit to Celebrate “An Evening of Many Cultures”

  Tuesday, September 20, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s second Multicultural Benefit, “An Evening of Many Cultures,” will take place on September 26, 2011.  Among the honorees will be Samuel L. Jackson, soon to appear on Broadway as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and LaTanya Richardson Jackson; and Academy Award-winning actor Robert De Niro and Grace Hightower De Niro. This black-tie gala is the signature event in celebration of the Museum’s Multicultural Audience Development Initiative (MADI), founded in 1998.

• Metropolitan Museum’s McQueen, Caro, Serra, and “Rooms with a View” Exhibitions Stimulate $908 Million Economic Impact for New York

  Monday, September 12, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, September 12, 2011)—The Metropolitan Museum’s concurrent presentation of four acclaimed and widely attended exhibitions in the summer 2011 season—Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty; Anthony Caro on the Roof; Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective; and Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century—generated $908 million in spending by regional, national, and international tourists to New York, according to a visitor survey the Museum released today. Using the industry standard for calculating tax revenue impact, the study found that the direct tax benefit to the City and State from out-of-town visitors to the Museum totaled some $90.8 million. (Results of visitor survey are below.)

• 661,509 Total Visitors to Alexander McQueen Put Retrospective among Top 10 Most Visited Exhibitions in Metropolitan Museum’s History

  Monday, August 8, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  661,509 Total Visitors to Alexander McQueen Put Retrospective among Top 10 Most Visited Exhibitions in Metropolitan Museum’s History

• Berlin Lends Colossal Statue of Pharaoh to
  Metropolitan Museum for Ten Years

  Friday, August 5, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  A monumental ancient Egyptian statue of a seated pharaoh—probably Amenemhat II—will be lent to The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Berlin’s renowned Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz for a period of ten years, beginning this month. The ten-foot-tall, nearly nine-ton, 4,000-year-old sculpture entered the Berlin museum’s collection in 1837. Because of a construction project now underway—to renovate the courtyard on Museumsinsel (Museum Island) where the artwork has most recently been displayed—the statue had to be moved, thereby providing the opportunity for this long-term loan. The sculpture will go on view in the Metropolitan’s Great Hall for approximately one year before it is moved into The Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art. The Middle Kingdom sculpture is an outstanding example of ancient Egypt’s magnificent colossal statuary, of which very few examples can be found in American museums.

• Metropolitan Museum Announces 5.68 Million Attendance, Highest in 40 Years

  Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, July 21, 2011)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that 5.68 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 in 40 years.  The total was more than 400,000 greater than in Fiscal Year 2010.

• MetFridays del Museo Metropolitano
  se enfocará en la cultura de América Latina
  el 18 de septiembre

  Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 6:00 a.m.

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• Metropolitan Museum’s Main Building and Cloisters Observe Memorial Day—May 27—Final “Met Holiday Monday”

  Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

• Next Met Holiday Monday on Memorial Day, May 30, Provides Additional Opportunity to Visit Highly Popular Exhibitions Alexander McQueen, Guitar Heroes, Rooms with a View

  Tuesday, May 24, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Schedule of Upcoming Holiday Mondays Announced

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts Celebrate the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

  Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Throughout the 2011–12 season, Metropolitan Museum Concerts will present an array of events in which a diverse selection of artists will perform music from, or inspired by, the regions and cultures represented in the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, opening November 1, 2011.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces 2011-2012 Concert Season

  Thursday, May 12, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  58th Season Features Artists Ranging from Jordi Savall, Thomas Hampson,
  Tenet, and the Pacifica Quartet to Angelique Kidjo, Patti Smith, and
  Kayhan Kalhor

• Metropolitan Museum and the Whitney Announce Collaborative Agreement for Breuer Building

  Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, May 11, 2011)—The directors of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art announced today that their boards of trustees have agreed in principle to a multiple-year collaboration projected to begin in 2015, when the Whitney opens its new museum facility on Gansevoort Street in downtown Manhattan. The Metropolitan Museum plans to present exhibitions and educational programming at the Whitney's landmark building at 945 Madison Avenue, which was designed by Marcel Breuer, for a period of eight years, with the possibility of extending the agreement for a longer term. The two museums will seek to collaborate on collections sharing, publications, and other educational activities.

• Anna Wintour Becomes an Elective Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, May 10, 2011)—Anna Wintour has been named an Elective Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced today by James R. Houghton, the Museum's Chairman. Ms. Wintour's election took place at the May 10 meeting of the Board.

• Spring and Summer Attractions in the Gardens at The Cloisters

  Monday, May 9, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Garden Days—an annual weekend of programming devoted to the acclaimed and popular plantings at The Cloisters Museum and Gardens—will take place on June 4 and 5. 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.

• Daniel Brodsky Elected to Succeed James R. Houghton as Chairman of the Metropolitan Museum's Board of Trustees

  Monday, May 9, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, May 10, 2011)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the election of business and civic leader Daniel Brodsky, a Trustee of the institution since 2001, as its next Chairman of the Board. Mr. Brodsky will officially assume the chairmanship on September 13, when James R. Houghton retires from the post after 13 years to become a Trustee Emeritus.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  June 2011

  Sunday, May 8, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Shen Wei Dance Arts' New Site-Specific Work for the American Wing,
  U.S. Premiere of Philip Glass's String Quartet No. 5,
  William Bolcom, Joan Morris, Robert White, and Memories of World War II, and
  Steve Miller's Encore Evening of Jazz

• Shen Wei Dance Arts to Create a Site-Specific Dance Work in The Charles Engelhard Court in the American Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art June 6 & 13, 2011

  Sunday, May 8, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  The Metropolitan Museum's First Site-Specific Dance Work

• Sam Waterston, Brian Murray, Star June 20 and 27 at the Metropolitan Museum in Staged Readings of Brenson-Duveen Drama, The Old Masters

  Wednesday, May 4, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, May 5, 2011)—Simon Gray's intense drama of friendship, ethics, and doom involving two leading luminaries of the pre-World War II European art world—The Old Masters—will be revived for an exclusive, two-evenings-only staged reading at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on consecutive Mondays, June 20 and June 27, at 7 p.m.

• Patti and Everett B. Birch Foundation Funds Two New Galleries and Education Programs at Metropolitan Museum

  Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Emphasis on Islamic Culture of Morocco, Spain, North Africa, and Western Mediterranean Honors Memory of Longtime Supporter Patti Cadby Birch

• Met Celebrates Senses of Springtime with Family Festival Highlighting Art and Culture from the Islamic World and the Ancient Near East
  Sunday, April 28, 2013

  Monday, April 25, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Lectures in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
  May and June 2011

  Wednesday, April 20, 2011, 4:00 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.

• Limor Tomer Named New Concerts & Lectures General Manager at Metropolitan Museum

  Sunday, March 27, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, March 28, 2011)—Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today the appointment of Limor Tomer as the Museum's General Manager of Concerts & Lectures, effective May 2. She currently holds the dual positions of Executive Producer for Music at radio station Classical 105.9 FM WQXR and Adjunct Curator for Performing Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. At the Metropolitan Museum, Ms. Tomer—whose prolific career in the arts encompasses more than 20 years of experience as producer, programmer, administrator, and musician—will head the renowned Concerts & Lectures series, which is in its 57th season and presents more than 200 events to the public each year.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  May 2011

  Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Menahem Pressler & the Emerson String Quartet; Simone Dinnerstein in Recital;
  Sharon Isbin & the Salomé Chamber Orchestra;
  Tiempo Libre Performing from a New CD My Secret Radio;
  Dan Zanes & Friends; and Nimet Habachy's Chat with Deborah Voigt

• Metropolitan Museum Adds New "Spring Break" Holiday to Roster of Met Holiday Mondays

  Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  Guitar Heroes and Other Special Exhibitions on View Monday, April 25

• Irish Singer-Songwriter Duke Special Debuts Original Songs at Metropolitan Museum Inspired by Photographs in Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand

  Sunday, March 6, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  Irish musical sensation Duke Special will debut all-new songs on March 24, 2011, at 7 p.m. in a performance presented by Spectrum at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this concert conceived specifically for the Met, Duke Special has been inspired by the Museum's current exhibition Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand, which features masterpieces of photography from the early 20th century. Duke Special's signature atmospheric sound will take listeners back to a bygone era of steam trains, tycoons, grandes dames, and artists—a world of foggy city streets and tranquil country scenes.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  April 2011

  Monday, February 28, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  Chanticleer's Monteverdi, Mahler, and New Works by Mason Bates & Erika Lloyd, Pianists Paul Lewis and Jon Nakamatsu in Recital, Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert, Musicians from Marlboro, Steve Ross's Tribute to Fred Astaire, and John Lithgow's Children's Program

• Metropolitan Museum's 2011 Series of "Met Holiday Mondays" to Continue with Presidents' Day, Feb. 21

  Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art continues its popular "Met Holiday Mondays" program by opening the doors of its main building to the public on Presidents' Day, February 21. (The next Met Holiday Monday will be April 25, during spring break week.)

• Paul Ruddock Elected a Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Monday, February 7, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  Paul Ruddock has been elected to the Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced today by James R. Houghton, the Museum's Chairman. The election took place at the January 11 meeting of the Board of Trustees.

• 大都會藝術博物館於二月五日舉辦春節迎新活動弘揚中國文化藝術

  Thursday, January 27, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  活動日期： 2011 年二月五日， 星期六 活動時間： 上午11 時 至 下午 4 時 地點： 曼哈頓 第五大道輿82街，大都會藝術博物館 大都會藝術博物館歡迎不同年齡的訪客在 2011年二月五日來參加慶祝中國文化藝術，迎接農曆新年的全天全館歡慶活動。本博物館迎兔年活動包括一系列互動節目、手工藝製作活動以及豐富多彩的演出。只需憑本館入場券，這些新年節目幾乎全部免費。

• Steve Miller & Friends - Including Jim Hall, Howard Alden, and Bucky Pizzarelli - Perform "Celebrating the Jazz Guitar" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Saturday, February 12, 2011

  Monday, January 24, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  Concert is presented in Conjunction with the Exhibition
  Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York
  February 9 – July 4, 2011

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  March 2011

  Sunday, January 23, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  Nelson Freire and Nicholas Angelich on the PianoForte Recital Series, John Pizzarelli, and Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks; Tango Buenos Aires, David Dubal on Paganini, Liszt, and Wagner; and Gilbert Kaplan Asks "Did New York Kill Gustav Mahler?"

• Lunar New Year Festival at Metropolitan Museum on February 5 Celebrates Chinese Arts and Culture

  Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  Visitors of all ages are invited to The Metropolitan Museum of Art on February 5, 2011, to enjoy a day-long Lunar New Year Festival celebrating Chinese arts and culture. The Museum will ring in the Year of the Rabbit with interactive programs, art-making workshops, and lively performances. Nearly all Lunar New Year programs are free with Museum admission.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  February 2011

  Monday, January 17, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  Paul Lewis and Lise de la Salle Continue the PianoForte Recital Series; Itzhak Perlman Performs with Members of the Perlman Music Program; Steve Miller Plays Jazz, Classical Guitarist Odair Assad Performs in Recital; Pacifica Quartet Continues with Shostakovich; and Chinese Theatre Works Performs Little Red Riding Hood

• Metropolitan Museum Observes Martin Luther King Jr. Day—January 17—as "Met Holiday Monday"

  Thursday, January 13, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  (New York, January 14)—Galleries, shops, and dining facilities at The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be open to the public on January 17 (Martin Luther King Jr. Day), the next in the series of popular "Met Holiday Mondays."

• James C. Y. Watt to Become Curator Emeritus After Decade Leading Department of Asian Art and Distinguished 25-Year Tenure at Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Monday, January 10, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  Maxwell K. Hearn to Become the Douglas Dillon Curator in Charge of the Department

• Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Make $10 Million Gift to Launch the Renovation of the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute

  Monday, January 10, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  (New York, January 11, 2011)—A landmark gift of $10 million to The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch will support the creation of a major exhibition space within its Costume Institute. This gift will allow the Museum to proceed, beginning in 2012, with the complete renovation of its costume-related exhibition galleries, study collection, and conservation center, it was announced today by Thomas P. Campbell, Director of the Museum.

• 美国大都会博物馆服装艺术部2015年春季特展

  Saturday, January 8, 2011, 8:00 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts Announces
  Additions to its Spring 2011 Season

  Monday, January 3, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  • Shen Wei Dance Arts Creates Dance Inspired by Sculpture in the American Wing

• Metropolitan Museum Launches Connections Series of Online Episodes Featuring Museum Staff

  Monday, January 3, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

  On January 5, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will launch Connections, a new online interactive feature that highlights the perspectives and insights of Museum staff on works of art in the Metropolitan's collection.

• Metropolitan Museum Celebrates the Holidays by Opening on "Holiday Monday" December 27

  Sunday, December 19, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  Galleries, Exhibitions Open to the Public on Monday of Christmas/New Year's Week

• Metropolitan Museum's Exhibitions Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú, and American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity Stimulate $784 Million Economic Impact for City

  Monday, December 13, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  (New York, December 14, 2010)—The Metropolitan Museum's concurrent presentation of three acclaimed and widely attended special exhibitions over the summer 2010 season—Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú, and American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity—generated $784 million in economic activity by regional, national, and international tourists to New York, according to a visitor survey the Museum released today. Using the industry standard for calculating tax revenue impact, the study noted that the direct tax benefit to the City and State from out-of-town visitors to the Museum totaled some $78.4 million. (Study findings below.)

• Gifts Enhance Metropolitan Museum's Scholarly Activities in Cycladic and Early Greek Art

  Thursday, December 2, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  Endowment Fund to Support Lecture Series; Photo Archive to Be Made Available to Researchers

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  January 2011

  Monday, November 29, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  The PianoForte Recital Series Continues with Frederic Chiu's "Monument to Beethoven," Pacifica Quartet Continues Its Shostakovich Cycle, Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert Plays Purcell, Berio, Kancheli & Beethoven, Cirène, an Ensemble of Young New York Stars, Performs a Children's Program, and Steve Ross Sings Noël Coward

• Metropolitan Museum Lectures
  January and February 2011

  Sunday, November 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.

• Metropolitan Museum and Egyptian Government Announce Initiative to Recognize Egypt's Title to 19 Objects Originally from Tutankhamun's Tomb

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

  (New York, November 10, 2010)—Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, announced jointly today that, effective immediately, the Museum will acknowledge Egypt's title to 19 ancient Egyptian objects in its collection since early in the 20th century. All of these small-scale objects, which range from study samples to a three-quarter-inch-high bronze dog and a sphinx bracelet-element, can be attributed with certainty to Tutankhamun's tomb, which was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings. The Museum initiated this formal acknowledgment after renewed, in-depth research by two of its curators substantiated the history of the objects.

• Mark Polizzotti Named Publisher & Editor in Chief at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

  (New York, November 10, 2010)—Mark Polizzotti has been appointed Publisher and Editor in Chief at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he will oversee all aspects of the Museum's scholarly publishing program, it was announced today by Director Thomas P. Campbell. Mr. Polizzotti is currently Director of Intellectual Property and Publisher at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He will begin work at the Metropolitan Museum on November 15.

• Metropolitan Museum to Undertake Major Redesign and Reconstruction of its Fifth Avenue Outdoor Plaza and Fountains

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

  Retains Landscape Architect OLIN Studio to Lead Effort

• Metropolitan Museum Lectures
  November and December 2010

  Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Wednesday, November 3, at 11 a.m. – Art History 201: Masterpieces of World Art, Era of Impressionism. This series, presented by Janetta Rebold Benton, Pace University Distinguished Professor of Art History, offers insight into global masterpieces of architecture, sculpture, and painting created from prehistory to our own day. This fall, the artistic styles known as Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Art Nouveau in Western Europe (approximately 1800 to 1900) are studied and compared with contemporaneous creations throughout the world. The six-part series, which began on October 6, continues with Post-Impressionism: Van Gogh and Gauguin; Menier Chocolate Factory in England and Eiffel Tower in France; Oceanic Art; Puebla Ceramics; and Architecture of H. H. Richardson in New England.
  Single tickets: $25

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  December 2010

  Monday, October 25, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  New York Philharmonic CONTACT! Program Features World & U.S. Premieres, Pacifica Quartet Continues Its Shostakovich Project,Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert Performs Beethoven, Berio, and Gideon Klein,Jazz Pianist Bill Charlap and Song Stylist Sandy Stewart – Mother & Son – Perform, and Christmas Concerts Feature Chanticleer, Anonymous 4, Inspirational Voices of the Abyssinian, Lionheart, and Burning River Brass

• World of Khubilai Khan and Other Special Exhibitions Open for Columbus Day
  Monday, October 11

  Thursday, October 7, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, October 7, 2010)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art's next upcoming Holiday Monday—Columbus Day, October 11—will give visitors a special opportunity to view such new and popular fall exhibitions as The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty and to spend time in the Museum's encyclopedic collections galleries. The Metropolitan Museum announced today that April 25, 2011—the Monday when many schools will be closed for spring break—has just been added to the roster of Met Holiday Mondays for the coming year.

• 修道院藝術博物館內的花園

  Thursday, September 30, 2010, 9:41 p.m.