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• History of the Nude in Photography in Naked before the Camera at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  March 27 - September 9, 2012

  Saturday, August 18, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum to Show Rylands Hagaddah, Important Medieval Hebrew Manuscript
  On view March 27, 2012

  Friday, August 17, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

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

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

• Ellsworth Kelly’s Drawings of Plants, Flowers, Leaves—Spanning 60 Years—on View Beginning June 5 at Metropolitan Museum
  June 5 – September 3, 2012

  Thursday, August 9, 2012, 3:00 p.m.

   

• Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City
  PRESS GUIDELINES

  Thursday, August 9, 2012, 2:30 p.m.

• Rare Loans from the Accademia Carrara on View in Bellini, Titian, and Lotto at Metropolitan Museum
  May 15–September 3, 2012

  Thursday, August 9, 2012, 2:00 p.m.

   

• Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada’s Impossible Conversations at Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute
  May 10–August 19, 2012

  Thursday, August 9, 2012, 1:30 p.m.

   

• Exhibition of Works by Dürer and Other Masters at Metropolitan Museum Highlights Achievements in Central European Draftsmanship 1400-1700
  April 3–September 3, 2012

  Thursday, August 9, 2012, 1:00 p.m.

• 大都会艺术博物馆服装艺术部2015年春季特展将聚焦艺术、电影、时尚中的中国意象
  2015年5月7日- 2015年8月16日

  Thursday, August 9, 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 Exhibition Explores Origins of Ancient Egyptian Art
  April 10–August 5, 2012

  Monday, May 14, 2012, 2:00 p.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.

• Special Exhibition Featuring Superb Collection of Chinese Prints from British Museum on View at Metropolitan Museum Beginning May 5
  May 5 – July 29, 2012

  Monday, May 7, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Rembrandt Self-Portrait from Kenwood House, London, on View in the United States for the First Time in New Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum
  April 3–May 20, 2012

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

• Early Portraits by Rembrandt and Degas in Exhibition Opening at Metropolitan Museum February 23
  February 23–May 20, 2012

  Thursday, May 3, 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

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

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

  Monday, April 23, 2012, 3:00 p.m.

• The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
  February 28 – June 3, 2012

  Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

   

• Landmark Metropolitan Museum Exhibition Considers Two Centuries that Shaped the Medieval World
  March 14-July 8, 2012

  Sunday, April 15, 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.

• SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS
  APRIL – DECEMBER 2012

  Monday, April 2, 2012, 3:30 p.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.

• Rarely Seen “Extra Small” Modern and Contemporary Works at Metropolitan Museum featured in XS
  Through April 15, 2012

  Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 5:00 a.m.

• Buried Finds: Textile Collectors in Egypt
  Through July 15, 2012

  Monday, March 5, 2012, 5:00 a.m.

• Met Museum Presents 春季项目聚焦亚洲艺术

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

• Works by Three Generations of Contemporary Iranian Artists Featured in Metropolitan Museum Installation
  March 6–September 3, 2012

  Friday, March 2, 2012, 5:00 a.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.

• Major Retrospective Exhibition of Chinese Modern Artist Fu Baoshi Goes on View at Metropolitan Museum
  January 21 - April 15, 2012

  Thursday, March 1, 2012, 5:00 a.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.

• New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
  Opened: January 16, 2012

  Thursday, February 23, 2012, 5:00 a.m.

   

• Masterpieces of Renaissance Portraiture on View in New Exhibition Opening at Metropolitan Museum
  December 21, 2011–March 18, 2012

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

   

• Metropolitan Museum Lectures
  March, April, and May 2012

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

• American Cabinetmaker Duncan Phyfe Celebrated in Metropolitan Museum Retrospective Exhibition
  December 20, 2011–May 6, 2012

  Sunday, February 19, 2012, 5:00 a.m.

   

• Metropolitan Museum Shows Rare Cards of Major League Baseball Players Who Broke the Color Barrier
  Through June 17, 2012

  Sunday, February 19, 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.

• Ausstellung zum hundertjährigen Bestehen der graphischen Sammlung des Metropolitan Museum zur Ehrung der Gründungskuratoren

  Thursday, February 2, 2012, 11:09 p.m.

• La exposición del Centenario celebra el famoso Departamento de Grabados creado por los conservadores fundadores del Metropolitan Museum

  Sunday, January 29, 2012, 8:27 p.m.

• La mostra per il centenario celebra i curatori
  e fondatori del rinomato Dipartimento
  delle Stampe del Met Museum

  Sunday, January 29, 2012, 7:57 p.m.

• Contemporary Artists Explore the Secret Life of Museums and Their Collections in Spies in the House of Art
  February 7 – August 26, 2012

  Tuesday, January 24, 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.

• The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
  November 15, 2011–April 22, 2012

  Friday, January 13, 2012, 5:00 a.m.

   

• Exhibition of American Indian Art Now On View at Metropolitan Museum
  December 6, 2011 – October 14, 2012

  Thursday, January 12, 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.

• Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche on Display for Holiday Season at Metropolitan Museum
  November 25, 2014–January 6, 2015

  Thursday, December 15, 2011, 8:30 p.m.

• Elaborately Crafted Eastern European Silver Menorah among Examples of Judaica on View at Metropolitan Museum for Hanukkah

  Thursday, December 15, 2011, 8:00 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum to Open Renovated Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
  Opened: November 1, 2011

  Tuesday, November 22, 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.

• Storytelling in Japanese Art
  November 19, 2011–May 6, 2012

  Saturday, November 19, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

   

• Lisbon's Hebrew Bible
  On view November 22, 2011

  Thursday, November 17, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

   

• Victorian Electrotypes on View in New Installation at the Metropolitan Museum
  November 22, 2011–April 22, 2012

  Thursday, November 17, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

   

• Art in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1515: Paintings and Drawings from the Museum's Collections
  November 8, 2011 - February 5, 2012

  Friday, November 11, 2011, 5:00 a.m.

• Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche on Display for Holiday Season at Metropolitan Museum
  November 22, 2011–January 8, 2012

  Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 4:00 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. 

• The Making of a Collection: Islamic Art at the Metropolitan
  November 1, 2011-February 5, 2012

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

• 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.
  

• Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe Features 200 Works by European and American Modernists in the Metropolitan Museum's Collection
  October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012

  Thursday, October 13, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

   

• 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.

• Exhibition Celebrating Late Renaissance Master Perino del Vaga at Metropolitan Museum
  September 27, 2011–February 5, 2012

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

  Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi, 1501-1547), a pupil of Raphael, was a leading innovator of the late Renaissance style known as Mannerism, and one of the most influential Italian artists of the 16th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently acquired a painting and a drawing by the master, and they will both be featured in Perino del Vaga in New York Collections, on view from September 27, 2011, through February 5, 2012. The new acquisitions will be seen alongside some 18 drawings by the artist from the Metropolitan Museum, the Morgan Library & Museum, and private collections, as well as a second painting from a New York private collection.

• Major International Loan Exhibition Featuring Greatest Artists in History of Indian Painting Goes on View at Metropolitan Museum in October
  September 28, 2011 – January 8, 2012

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

   

• 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.

• Epic Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum Reexamines Masterpieces of African Art in Relation to Historic Figures
  September 21, 2011 – January 29, 2012

  Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

   

• 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.

• Good Humor at the Met—Caricature and Satire Explored in Infinite Jest at the Metropolitan Museum
  September 13, 2011–March 4, 2012

  Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

   

• 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.)

• Acclaimed Hong Kong Collection of Ming Loyalist Art On View at Metropolitan Museum This Fall
  September 7, 2011 – January 2, 2012

  Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

   

• Schedule of Exhibitions
  January - June 2012

  Monday, September 5, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

• The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt by Faith Ringgold and New York City Students On View at Metropolitan Museum Beginning August 30
  August 30, 2011 – January 22, 2012

  Thursday, September 1, 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

  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 Highlights Frans Hals Paintings from Collection in Exhibition on View Beginning July 26

  Tuesday, July 26, 2011, 4:00 a.m.

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the most important collection of paintings in America by the celebrated Dutch artist Frans Hals (1582/83-1666), whose portraits and genre scenes were famous in his lifetime for their immediacy and dazzling brushwork. Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum—on view from July 26, through October 10, 2011—presents 13 paintings by Hals, including two lent from private collections, and several works by other Netherlandish masters.

• 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.