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• Met Cloisters의 정원

  Monday, August 23, 2010, 2:25 p.m.

• Hebrew Manuscripts on View during High Holy Days at Metropolitan Museum's Main Building and The Cloisters

  Sunday, August 22, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Two important medieval Hebrew manuscripts—a Mishneh Torah made between 1300 and 1400 in Germany and an illuminated leaf from a prayer book made in Austria around 1360—are on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Cloisters, respectively, in conjunction with the Jewish High Holy Days this fall. The Cloisters is the Metropolitan's branch museum dedicated to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. The High Holy Days are ten days of penitence and prayer that commence with Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) and end with Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), the most solemn day of the Jewish year. This year, the High Holy Days begin the evening of September 8.

• Next "Met Holiday Monday" on Labor Day, September 6

  Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Last Chance to See Tutankhamun's Funeral; Additional Viewing Opportunity for Popular Summer Exhibitions

• Metropolitan Museum Announces Picasso Exhibition Drew 700,000 Visitors in 17 Weeks

  Monday, August 16, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Seventh Highest Exhibition Attendance on Record at the Met

• Ancient Roman Mosaic from Israel on View at Metropolitan Museum

  Sunday, August 15, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  In 1996, workmen widening the Jerusalem–Tel Aviv road in Lod (formerly Lydda), Israel, made a startling discovery: signs of a Roman mosaic pavement were found about three feet below the modern ground surface. A rescue excavation was conducted immediately by the Israel Antiquities Authority, revealing a mosaic floor that measures approximately 50 feet long by 27 feet wide. It is of exceptional quality and in an excellent state of preservation. The mosaic, comprising seven panels, is symmetrically divided into two large "carpets" by a long rectangular horizontal panel, and the entire work is surrounded by a ground of plain white. To preserve the mosaic, it was reburied until funding was secured for its full scientific excavation and conservation. Recently removed from the ground, the three most complete and impressive panels will be exhibited to the general public for the first time when they go on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 28. The pavement is believed to come from the home of a wealthy Roman living in the Eastern Roman Empire in around A.D. 300. Because the mosaic's imagery has no overt religious content, it cannot be determined whether the owner was a pagan, a Jew, or a Christian.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  September 2010

  Monday, August 9, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Judy Collins at The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing,
  Dee Dee Bridgewater's Tribute to Billie Holliday, and
  "Strings of the Black Sea," Music from Bulgaria, Ukraine, Crimea, and Turkey

• 大都会艺术博物馆以12种语言推出应用程序82nd & Fifth，以同名获奖网上系列为基础，由100位策展人讲述激发他们灵感的100件艺术作品

  Saturday, August 7, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• 大都會藝術博物館以12種語言推出應用程式82nd & Fifth，以同名獲獎網上系列為基礎，由100位策展人講述激發他們靈感的100件藝術作品

  Friday, August 6, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• Le Metropolitan Museum lance son application « 82nd & Fifth » en 12 langues. Elle est fondée sur la série en ligne, primée, du même nom et montre 100 œuvres d’art et les 100 conservateurs qu’elles ont inspirés

  Thursday, August 5, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• Metropolitan Museum startet 82nd & Fifth App in 12 Sprachen, basierend auf der preisgekrönten Online Serie, die 100 Kunstwerke und 100 von ihnen inspirierten Kuratoren präsentieren

  Wednesday, August 4, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• "The Met Cloisters" الحدائق في متحف

  Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 2:57 p.m.

• 修道院艺术博物馆内的花园

  Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 1:59 p.m.

• Il Metropolitan Museum lancia 82nd & Fifth, applicazione web in 12 lingue tratta dalla premiata serie online che mostra 100 opere d’arte e 100 curatori ad esse ispirati.

  Tuesday, August 3, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• メトロポリタン美術館は 82nd & Fifthアプリを12カ国語でご紹介します。これは受賞歴のあるオンラインシリーズに基づき、100点もの美術品とそれらに影響を受けた100人の学芸員に焦点をあてています。

  Monday, August 2, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• 메트로폴리탄 박물관은 12개의 언어로 82nd & Fifth앱을 출시합니다. 이는 2013년 상을 수상한 온라인 시리즈로 100점의 작품을 100명의 큐레이터가 받은 영감을 토대로 보여 줍니다.

  Sunday, August 1, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• O Metropolitan Museum de Nova York, o MET, Lança o Aplicativo 82nd & Fifth em 12 Línguas, Baseado na Premiada Série Online, Apresentando 100 Obras de Arte e 100 Curadores Que Elas Inspiraram

  Saturday, July 31, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• Музей Метрополитен (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) запускает приложение 82nd & Fifth на двенадцати языках, основанное на знаменитой серии онлайн эпизодов, представляющей 100 произведений искусства и 100 кураторов, которых вдохновили эти работы. 

  Friday, July 30, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• El Museo Metropolitano (The Metropolitan Museum) lanza la aplicación 82nd & Fifth en 12 idiomas, basado en la galardonada serie online 100 obras de arte y 100 conservadores a los que inspiraron

  Thursday, July 29, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

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• Medieval Art and The Cloisters

  Monday, July 26, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The Middle Ages, the period between ancient and modern times in Western civilization, extends from the fourth to the early 16th century—that is, roughly from the Fall of Rome to the beginning of the Renaissance in Northern Europe. The Metropolitan Museum's collection of medieval art, one of the richest in the world, encompasses the art of this long and complex period in all its many phases, from its pre-Christian antecedents in western Europe through early medieval, the Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic periods. The Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, established in 1933, oversees both the collection in the Museum's main building on Fifth Avenue and that of The Cloisters in northern Manhattan.

• Ancient Near East

  Sunday, July 25, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The Department of Ancient Near Eastern Art was formed in 1956, although the first objects to enter the collection—cuneiform tablets and stamp and cylinder seals—were acquired in the late 1800s.

• The American Wing

  Sunday, July 25, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The American Wing houses one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of American art in existence—more than 15,000 paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts objects—all of which are accessible to the public on four floors of gallery and study areas. It also features one of the Museum's loveliest and most popular spaces, The Charles Engelhard Court, a glassed-in garden featuring large-scale American sculptures, leaded-glass windows, and other architectural elements.

• Photographs

  Sunday, July 25, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Established as an independent curatorial department in 1992, the Metropolitan Museum's Department of Photographs houses a collection of more than 20,000 works acquired by the Museum over 80 years.

• Islamic Art

  Sunday, July 25, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The Metropolitan Museum's collection of Islamic art is the most comprehensive in the world. It includes more than 12,000 of the finest objects, dating from the seventh to the 20th century and reflecting the cultural and geographic sweep of historic Islamic civilization, which extends as far west as Spain, Morocco, and Senegal and as far east as India, Southeast Asia, and China. Outstanding holdings include the collections of glass and metalwork from Egypt, Syria, and Mesopotamia; more than 450 Islamic carpets—the largest collection in the United States, including a 16th-century Egyptian carpet in emerald green and wine red that is a masterpiece of Mamluk design and some 3,000 textiles; pages from a sumptuous copy of the Shahnama, or Book of Kings, created for Shah Tahmasp (1514-76), and other outstanding royal miniatures from the courts of Persia and Mughal India; and a 14th-century glazed ceramic mihrab, or prayer niche, from a theological school in Isfahan.

• Director Thomas P. Campbell Announces Curatorial and Conservation Appointments at Metropolitan Museum

  Wednesday, July 21, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, July 22, 2010)—Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, today announced three appointments within the Museum's curatorial and conservation departments:

• Important Roman Sculpture Joins Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Wednesday, July 7, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, July 8, 2010)—An ancient Roman group statue of great importance and beauty—a depiction of the Three Graces of Greek mythology—has been acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced today by Thomas P. Campbell, the Museum's Director. The marble sculpture is a second-century A.D. Roman copy of a Greek work from the second century B.C. Discovered in Rome in 1892, the statue has been on loan to the Museum from a private collector since 1992, and has been on view in the center of the Leon Levy and Shelby White Sculpture Court since it opened in 2007.

• Ramayana Manuscripts on View at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, July 1, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The Ramayana –The Story of Rama, one of the great epic narratives of South Asia literature, is the focus of an installation on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through September 26. Showcasing 30 brilliantly polychromed paintings and pictorial textiles that depict episodes from the narrative, Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana explores the magical power embodied in this ancient prose-narrative text that has so captured the imagination of Indian artists from early in the history of Indian art. The exhibition is drawn largely from the Metropolitan Museum's own collection, with some major loans from a New York private collection. The paintings on view were produced mostly during the 17th and 18th centuries in the Hindu court ateliers of Rajasthan, western India, and the Punjab Hills; others are of northern Indian provenance in a Sub-Imperial Mughal style.

• Italian Old Master Drawings from the Tobey Collection on View at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, July 1, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo presents 72 extraordinary works of the 16th through 18th centuries, from one of the preeminent collections of Italian Old Master drawings in private hands. It features masterpieces by gifted and historically important draftsmen—principally Italian masters but also artists whose careers brought them south of the Alps—among them Correggio, Parmigianino, Bernini, Poussin, Guercino, Canaletto, and Tiepolo. The drawings represent the principal centers of Italian art: Florence, Rome, Naples, Bologna, Parma, Venice, Genoa, and Milan. Their strikingly broad range of subject matter includes figure studies, historical and mythological narratives, landscapes, vedute, botanical drawings, motifs copied from or inspired by classical antiquity, and designs for painted compositions.

• Metropolitan Museum Announces 5.24 Million Annual Attendance, Highest Since 2001, as Fiscal Year Ends

  Tuesday, June 29, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, June 30, 2010)—Attendance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art reached 5,240,000 visitors during the fiscal year that ends today, June 30, the Museum has announced. This is the first year since 2001 that attendance at the Metropolitan has exceeded five million. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, ranks among the highest in its entire 130-year history.

• Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View at Met Museum in
  Celebration of the Musician's 70th Birthday
  
  

  Monday, June 28, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  July 'Artists Den' National Television Broadcast Features Ringo Starr at the Met

• Ringo Starr's Gold Drum on View at Met Museum in
  Celebration of the Musician's 70th Birthday
  
  

  Monday, June 28, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  July 'Artists Den' National Television Broadcast Features Ringo Starr
  at the Met

• Contemporary Photography and Video Featured in Between Here and There at Metropolitan Museum

  Sunday, June 13, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Themes of dislocation and displacement in contemporary photography will be explored in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's forthcoming exhibition in the Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography. Drawn almost entirely from the Museum's collection, Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography on view July 2, 2010 through February 21, 2011, will feature 22 artists whose photographic works convey a sense of a rootless or unfixed existence.

• El Museo Metropolitano lanza una nueva función web interactiva Un Met. Muchos Mundos. en 11 idiomas

  Thursday, June 10, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• Метрполитен-Музей запускает новую интерактивную интернет-функцию «Один Мет. Много Миров» на 11 языках

  Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• O Metropolitan Museum de Nova York, o MET, lança uma nova ferramenta interativa: One Met. Many Worlds. em 11 línguas

  Monday, June 7, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• 메트로폴리탄 박물관은 새로운 인터랙티브한 웹 기능인 하나의 MET. 다양한 세계.를 11개의 언어로 출시합니다

  Sunday, June 6, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• Il Metropolitan Museum lancia Un solo Met. Tanti Mondi, nuova applicazione web interattiva in 11 lingue

  Saturday, June 5, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum startet neues interaktives Web-Feature "Ein Met. Zahllose Welten." in 11 Sprachen

  Friday, June 4, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• Leon Levinstein's Rarely Seen New York City Street Photographs On View at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  A master of classic American street photography, Leon Levinstein (American, 1910–1988) is best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure studies made in New York City neighborhoods from Times Square and the Lower East Side to Coney Island. From June 8 through October 17, 2010, The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950-1980. This exhibition, drawn exclusively from the Metropolitan's collection, features 44 photographs that reflect Levinstein's fearless approach to the medium. Levinstein's graphic virtuosity—seen in raw, expressive gestures and seemingly monumental bodies—is balanced by an unusual compassion for his off-beat subjects from the demimonde.

• P.S. Art 2010 Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum
  Juried Display of Art by NYC Public School Students on View

  Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Exceptional works of art by 70 New York City public school students, ages four through 20, will be displayed in the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education at The Metropolitan Museum of Art for two months this summer through P.S. Art, a collaborative program between the New York City Department of Education and Studio in a School Association, Inc. The juried exhibition P.S. Art 2010: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of NYC Kids will open for special viewing by the public beginning at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 8, for participants in the Museum Mile Festival, and will remain on view through August 8.

• June 8 Events at Met Museum: P.S. Art Opening, Museum Mile, and Cool Culture

  Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  WHAT: Three photo ops/one evening:

• Le Metropolitan Museum lance une nouvelle fonction interactive en onze langues sur Internet: Un Met. Des Mondes.

  Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• 大都会艺术博物馆以11种语言推出全新观众互动网页"来MET参观。看多元文化。"

  Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• متحف المتروبوليتان للفنون (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) يُطلق تطبيقًا تفاعليًّا جديدًا على الشبكة "METحف واحد، عوالم كثيرة" (One Met. Many Worlds) بإحدى عشرة لغة.

  Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Partners with Berg Publishers to Make Costume Institute Images Available

  Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, June 2, 2010) -- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it has entered a partnership with Berg Publishers, the leading academic and reference imprint owned by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, to enable more than 2,000 images of The Costume Institute's collection to be made available through the Berg Fashion Library, a new online resource launching in late June 2010.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces 2010-2011 Concert Season

  Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  57th Season Features Acclaimed PianoForte Recitals; New York Philharmonic CONTACT! Series; Pacifica Quartet's Season of Shostakovich; Music from Argentina, Cuba, Mexico, and the Philippines; Itzhak Perlman, Chanticleer, Sharon Isbin, Patti Smith, Judy Collins, Christine Ebersole, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and More

• Metropolitan Museum Announces Departure of Concerts & Lectures General Manager Hilde Limondjian

  Tuesday, May 25, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that Hilde Limondjian, who has been the General Manager of its Concerts & Lectures series since 1969, will step down from the position on June 30, 2010, at the conclusion of the series' 56th season. Ms. Limondjian has programmed 41 seasons of music and lectures – more than 9,000 events – at the Metropolitan Museum that comprise not only the oldest continually offered major concert series in New York, but one of the most esteemed.

• Schedule of Exhibitions Through December 2016

  Monday, May 17, 2010, 3:01 p.m.

• Schedule of Exhibitions Through December 2016

  Monday, May 17, 2010, 3:01 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Announces New Schedule of "Met Holiday Mondays"

  Sunday, May 9, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  (New York, May 10, 2010) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the schedule for the next seven Met Holiday Mondays—extra public viewing days that take place on the Mondays of major holiday weekends, when historically the Museum has been closed. A different selection of exhibitions will be open on each Met Holiday Monday. The Metropolitan's public cafeteria and several of the gift shops in the main building will be open on all of these special viewing days.

• Spring and Summer Attractions in the Gardens at The Cloisters

  Sunday, May 9, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  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.

• "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity" at Metropolitan Museum to Open May 5, 2010; First Costume Institute Exhibition Based on Renowned Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection

  Thursday, April 29, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  The spring 2010 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, the first drawn from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Met. The exhibition, on view from May 5 through August 15, 2010, explores developing perceptions of the modern American woman from the 1890s to the 1940s, and how they have affected the way American women are seen today. Focusing on archetypes of American femininity through dress, the exhibition reveals how the American woman initiated style revolutions that mirrored her social, political, and sartorial emancipation. Early mass-media representations of American women established the fundamental characteristics of American style – a theme explored via a multimedia installation in the final gallery.

• Press Guidelines for Visiting Elevated Pathways of Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú

  Thursday, April 22, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú

• Doug and Mike Starn Create Monumental Sculpture for Metropolitan Museum's 2010 Roof Garden Installation

  Thursday, April 22, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  American artists Mike and Doug Starn (born 1961) have been invited by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to create a site-specific installation for The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, opening to the public on April 27. The identical twin brothers will present their new work, Big Bambú: You Can't, You Don't, and You Won't Stop, a monumental bamboo structure ultimately measuring 100 feet long by 50 feet wide by 50 feet high in the form of a cresting wave that will bridge realms of sculpture, architecture, and performance. Visitors are meant to witness the creation and evolving incarnations of Big Bambú as it is constructed throughout the spring, summer, and fall by the artists and a team of rock climbers. Set against Central Park and its urban backdrop, the installation Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú will suggest the complexity and energy of an ever-changing living organism. It will comprise the 13th consecutive single-artist installation for the Cantor Roof Garden.

• 300 Picasso Works in Metropolitan Museum's Collection Featured in Landmark Exhibition Opening April 27

  Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a landmark exhibition of 300 works by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), will provide an unprecedented opportunity to see one of the most important collections in the world of the artist's work. On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 27 through August 15, 2010, this is the first exhibition to focus exclusively on the remarkable array of works by Picasso in the Met's collection. The exhibition will reveal the Museum's complete holdings of the artist's paintings, drawings, sculptures, and ceramics—never before seen in their entirety—as well as a significant number of his prints.

• LONDON TO NEW YORK VIA...ICELAND?
  PIANIST PAUL LEWIS IS TRYING TO GET TO NEW YORK SO THE SHOW CAN GO ON AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ON SATURDAY, APRIL 24

  Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  English pianist Paul Lewis has a recital to perform this Saturday, April 24, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the Tuesday flight he had booked from London to New York was canceled because of the spreading ash cloud from Iceland's volcanic eruption, and the best he could do to reschedule was standby on Saturday, the day of the concert.

• Grande exposition au Met pour célébrer le patrimoine artistique, technologique et culturel des Seldjoukides, une influente dynastie islamique médiévale

  Sunday, April 18, 2010, 4:01 p.m.

• نمایشگاهی بزرگ در موزه مترپلیتن میراث هنری، فنی، و فرهنگی سلجوقیان، سلسله با نفوذ اسلامی قرون وسطی، را جشن می گیرد

  Thursday, April 15, 2010, 2:27 p.m.

• 300 obras de Picasso de la colección del Metropolitan Museum se presentan en una gran exposición que abrirá al público el 27 de abril (Spanish)

  Thursday, April 15, 2010, 4:00 a.m.

  Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, es una exposición emblemática compuesta por 300 obras de Pablo Picasso (Español, 1881–1973), que brinda una oportunidad sin precedentes de contemplar una de las colecciones más importantes del mundo de la obra de este artista. Se trata de la primera muestra que se centra exclusivamente en la extraordinaria colección que el Met atesora de Picasso. Abrirá sus puertas al público desde el 27 de abril hasta el 15 de agosto de 2010. La exposición presentará la colección completa, nunca antes vista en su totalidad, que el Museo posee del artista: pinturas, dibujos, esculturas y cerámicas, así como un número significativo de sus grabados.

• Nýu-Ýork şäherindäki “The Met” (Metropoliten) sungat muzeýinde Orta asyrlaryň kuwwatly yslam dinastiýasy bolan Seljuklaryň çeperçilik, tehnologiýa we medeni mirasyna bagyşlanyp uly sergi geçirilýär

  Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 2:01 p.m.

• Обширная экспозиция в музее Метрополитен освещает художественное, техническое и культурное наследие Сельджукидов, влиятельной исламской династии Средневековья.

  Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 1:52 p.m.

• معرض كبير في متحف المتروبوليتان للفنون يحتفي بالتراث الفني والتكنولوجي والثقافي لأسرة السلاجقة صاحبة التأثير الكبير في التاريخ الإسلامي في القرون الوسطى

  Tuesday, April 13, 2010, 7:19 p.m.

• 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.

• Jennifer Russell to Rejoin Metropolitan Museum As Associate Director for Exhibitions

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

  (New York, March 10, 2010)—Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that Jennifer Russell will return to the Museum as Associate Director for Exhibitions. She is currently Senior Deputy Director of Exhibitions, Collections, and Programs at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She had worked at the Metropolitan Museum as Associate Director for Administration from 1993 to 1996, and will rejoin the Museum in her new role effective April 26. She was formally elected at the March 9 meeting of the Board of Trustees.

• The Honorable W. L. Lyons Brown, Jr., Elected an Honorary Trustee at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

  (New York—March 9, 2010) The Honorable William Lee Lyons Brown, Jr., former Ambassador of the United States to the Republic of Austria, has been elected an Honorary Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, it was announced today by James R. Houghton, the Museum's Chairman. The election took place at the March 9 meeting of the Board.

• Metropolitan Museum Concerts
  April 2010

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

  The New York Philharmonic's CONTACT! Features Alan Gilbert and Thomas Hampson, Chanticleer Performs a Program of Music from Plainchant to Chen Yi, Pianist Paul Lewis Performs His Only New York Recital of the Season, and Dianne Reeves Makes a Return to the Met

• Evocative Medieval Mourning Sculptures from Court of Burgundy Featured in Metropolitan Museum Exhibition

  Thursday, March 4, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  The renowned 15th-century sculptors Jean de la Huerta and Antoine Le Moiturier labored together for more than 25 years on a grand and complex commission: the tomb of John the Fearless (Jean sans Peur, 1371–1419), the second Duke of Burgundy, and his wife, Margaret of Bavaria, which featured 41 alabaster mourning figures, among other elements. Following the precedent of the mourners carved for the tomb of Philip the Bold, the first Duke of Burgundy, de la Huerta and Le Moiturier created astonishingly realistic and highly individualized pleurants (mourners) that serve as a permanent record of the lavish funeral of one of the richest men in medieval France. The figures express a broad range of powerful emotions—from melancholy to desolation—through facial expression, gesture, and the eloquent draping of garments. The renovation of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon, France—where 37 of the statuettes from the tomb of John the Fearless are housed—provides an opportunity for the unprecedented loan of these figures for the exhibition The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy, opening March 2 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the first venue in an eight-city tour. Three additional figures from the tomb of John the Fearless (now in the collections of the Louvre, the Musée National du Moyen Âge, and the Cleveland Museum of Art) and three from the tomb of Philip the Bold will also be shown, along with an architectural element (Cleveland Museum of Art and Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, respectively). The installation at the Metropolitan will be supplemented by related works from the Museum's collection, including the monumental Enthroned Virgin from the convent at Poligny (established by John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria) that was carved by Claus de Werve.

• Sumptuously Illustrated Medieval Manuscript—The Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry—On View at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, March 4, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  One of the most beautiful manuscripts in the world is the lavishly illustrated medieval prayer book known as the Belles Heures (Beautiful Hours). It was created by the Limbourg Brothers—three of the greatest illuminators in Europe—for one of the most famous art patrons of all time, Jean de France, duc de Berry (1340–1416). The son, brother, and uncle to three successive kings of France, Jean de France commissioned luxury works in many media—from chalices to castles—without regard for cost, but is best remembered for his patronage of manuscripts. Herman, Paul, and Jean de Limbourg were in their teens when he selected them to create a sumptuous Book of Hours for his private prayers, and he allowed the young artists rare latitude in designing the work.

• Το Met παρουσιάζει τρεις αιώνες ελληνικής τέχνης, από τον Αλέξανδρο έως την Κλεοπάτρα

  Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 3:26 p.m.

• Pianist Menahem Pressler, Age 86, and Cellist Gautier Capucon, Age 28, Who Perform Together in Recital at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Saturday, March 27, 2010, at 7:00 PM, Offer Words About Each Other

  Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  As part of Presenting Menahem Pressler, a 2009-2010 series featuring the legendary pianist in three chamber programs, the 86-year-old Pressler will join forces with the 28-year-old cellist Gautier Capuçon for a joint recital.

• André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments Reopen March 2 at Metropolitan Museum

  Sunday, February 28, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  After an eight-month hiatus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopens its André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments on March 2, featuring a refreshed and reinstalled presentation of its renowned collection of Western musical instruments.

• André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments Reopen March 2 at Metropolitan Museum

  Sunday, February 28, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  After an eight-month hiatus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopens its André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments on March 2, featuring a refreshed and reinstalled presentation of its renowned collection of Western musical instruments.

• Three Press Previews at Metropolitan Museum
  Monday, March 1, 10am-Noon

  Thursday, February 25, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
  (opening Tuesday, March 2) – an unprecedented loan from the Musée des Beaux Arts in Dijon of 38 dramatic alabaster statuettes, considered among the most sumptuous and innovative of the late Middle Ages.

• Northern European Manuscript Illuminations from Robert Lehman Collection to Go on View March 16

  Monday, February 22, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  Fourteen rare and important manuscript illuminations from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Robert Lehman Collection—ranging in date from the 13th through the 16th century and representing high points of the German, French, and Netherlandish schools of illumination—will be on view beginning March 16.

• Important Antiquities Lent by Republic of Italy on View at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, February 18, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  (New York, February 19, 2010)—A rare, recently excavated ancient Roman dining set consisting of 20 silver objects—one of only three such sets from the region of Pompeii known to exist in the world—and an important ancient Greek kylix (or drinking cup) have been installed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Galleries for Greek and Roman Art as part of an ongoing exchange of antiquities between the Republic of Italy and the Museum.

• Early Music Exposed, A Daylong Exploration of Early Music, Celebrates the Reopening of The André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments with Presentations by Six Major Early Music Ensembles Saturday, March 13, 2010

  Thursday, February 18, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  Frederick Renz Hosts Lecture-Demonstrations by the New York Historical Dance Company, Parthenia, Lionheart, Asteria, ARTEK, and Members of the Grand Tour Orchestra

• Medieval Costume Demonstration at The Cloisters, February 28

  Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  In a special presentation at The Cloisters museum and gardens—The Metropolitan Museum of Art's branch devoted to the art and architecture of the Middle Ages—some 30 citizens of Nijmegen (The Netherlands) wearing historically accurate attire based on medieval designs will participate in a lecture demonstration with costume historian Desirée Koslin. The program will take place twice on Sunday, February 28, 2010, at 1:00 p.m. and again at 3:00 p.m., and will focus on 15 different costumes. Although they are of contemporary construction, each unique costume relates to a specific depiction in one of several well-known illuminated manuscripts of the 15th century. Costumes featured in the demonstration will include those that would have been worn by dukes, duchesses, ladies of the court, and merchants, as well as citizens, servants, and peasants. The costumed citizens of Nijmegen will be available for photographs by the public—taken without flash—during the intermission. The event is free with Museum admission.

• Medieval Costume Demonstration at The Cloisters, February 28

  Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  In a special presentation at The Cloisters museum and gardens—The Metropolitan Museum of Art's branch devoted to the art and architecture of the Middle Ages—some 30 citizens of Nijmegen (The Netherlands) wearing historically accurate attire based on medieval designs will participate in a lecture demonstration with costume historian Desirée Koslin. The program will take place twice on Sunday, February 28, 2010, at 1:00 p.m. and again at 3:00 p.m., and will focus on 15 different costumes. Although they are of contemporary construction, each unique costume relates to a specific depiction in one of several well-known illuminated manuscripts of the 15th century. Costumes featured in the demonstration will include those that would have been worn by dukes, duchesses, ladies of the court, and merchants, as well as citizens, servants, and peasants. The costumed citizens of Nijmegen will be available for photographs by the public—taken without flash—during the intermission. The event is free with Museum admission.

• How Did Chinese Artists Learn and Practice Their Craft? Met Museum Explores the Topic in New Installation

  Sunday, February 7, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  A new installation opening at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on February 6, Mastering the Art of Chinese Painting: Xie Zhiliu (1910-1997) , demonstrates how Chinese artists learned their craft from earlier masterpieces and from nature. It showcases more than 100 works—including paintings, sketches, drawings, calligraphies, and poetry manuscripts—by Xie Zhiliu (pronounced "shay jer leo"), one of modern China's leading artists and connoisseurs. It also marks the centenary of his birth. A number of his sketches and copies will be accompanied by photographs of the works that inspired him and by his own completed works, in order to trace how he developed his unique style. Drawn primarily from a recent gift to the Metropolitan Museum from the artist's daughter Sarah Shay, the works on view comprise the first solo exhibition of Xie Zhiliu's works to be organized outside China.

• METROPOLITAN MUSEUM CONCERTS
  MARCH 2010

  Sunday, February 7, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  Early Music Exposed, A Daylong Event, Celebrates the Reopening of The André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments, Till Fellner's Beethoven Sonata Cycle Continues with "Pathétique" and "Les Adieux," Menahem Pressler & Gautier Capuçon Perform Together, and Sweet Honey In The Rock Makes Its Museum Debut

• Magnificent Manuscript and Sculptures Commissioned by Two Early 15th-Century Dukes of France on View in Pair of Metropolitan Museum Exhibitions

  Thursday, February 4, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  A unique window into the lavish French courts of the Valois dukes of Burgundy and Berry will be offered at The Metropolitan Museum of Art this spring with the simultaneous opening, on March 2, of two landmark exhibitions: The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry and The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculpture from the Court of Burgundy. The former features the exquisitely illustrated pages of a luxurious prayer book that belonged to Jean de Berry (1340–1416); the latter shows expressive alabaster figures from the tomb of his nephew, John the Fearless (Jean sans Peur, 1371–1419).

• Photocollages Reveal Wit and Whimsy of the Victorian Era in Metropolitan Museum Exhibition Opening February 2

  Wednesday, January 27, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  In the 1860s and 1870s, long before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early 20th century, aristocratic Victorian women were experimenting with photocollage. Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art February 2 – May 9, 2010, is the first exhibition to comprehensively examine this little-known phenomenon. Whimsical and fantastical Victorian photocollages, created using a combination of watercolor drawings and cut-and-pasted photographs, reveal the educated minds as well as accomplished hands of their makers. With subjects as varied as new theories of evolution, the changing role of photography, and the strict conventions of aristocratic society, the photocollages frequently debunked stuffy Victorian clichés with surreal, subversive, and funny images. Featuring 48 works from public and private collections—including many that have rarely or never been exhibited before—Playing with Pictures will provide a fascinating window into the creative possibilities of photography in the 19th century.

• SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS
  SEPTEMBER 2009– AUGUST 2010

  Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

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• Statement by The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Accident Involving Picasso's The Actor

  Saturday, January 23, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  (New York, January 24, 2010)— An important painting by Pablo Picasso was accidentally damaged in the galleries of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Friday afternoon, January 22. A visitor attending a class lost her balance, falling onto Picasso's The Actor, a large, Rose-period painting that was painted in winter 1904-1905. The accident resulted in an irregular vertical tear of about six inches in length in the lower right-hand corner.

• First Exhibition Ever Devoted to Bronzino at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, January 21, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  The Drawings of Bronzino, the first exhibition ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572), brings together nearly all of the 61 known drawings by, or attributed to, the great Florentine court artist of the Medici. On view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from January 20 through April 18, 2010, the exhibition features drawings of extraordinary beauty and rarity which are seldom on public view, and draws loans from major museums and private collections within Europe and North America, including the Galleria degli Uffizi, Musée du Louvre, British Museum, Royal Library of Windsor Castle, Ashmolean Museum, Kupferstich-Kabinett Dresden, and Staatliche Museen Berlin.

• Romare Bearden's The Block and Related Drawings On View at Metropolitan Museum Beginning January 15

  Thursday, January 14, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  Romare Bearden's vibrant mural-size tableau The Block (1971) and related sketches and photographs will be featured at The Metropolitan Museum of Art beginning January 15, 2010, in a small installation of works from the collection. The Block, an ambitious 18-foot-long collage, celebrates the Harlem neighborhood in New York City that nurtured and inspired so much of the artist's life and work. Romare Bearden (1911–1988) is best known for the colorful cut-paper collages that he began making in the 1960s. Elaborate works such as The Block (1971) elevated this genre to a major art form through its unusual materials, expressionist color, abstracted forms, flattened shapes and spaces, and shifts in perspective and scale—all the while maintaining focus on the human narrative being told within a single city block.

• METROPOLITAN MUSEUM CONCERTS
  FEBRUARY 2010

  Thursday, January 7, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  PianoForte Continues with Peter Orth, Rafal Blechacz, and Till Fellner's Beethoven Sonata Cycle; Perlman Music Program Presents New Work by D. Edward Davis; Steve Ross and the Pacifica Quartet Return

• Meissen Snuffbox Returned to Heirs of Munich-based Art Gallery

  Tuesday, January 5, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

• Installation of Contemporary Aboriginal Painting Opens at Metropolitan Museum

  Sunday, January 3, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  An installation of 14 bold and colorful paintings created by contemporary Aboriginal Australian artists will go on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on December 15. Drawn from a U. S. private collection, Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia will provide an introduction to Aboriginal painting, which has become Australia's most celebrated contemporary art movement and has attained prominence within the international art world. The installation will present works created primarily over the past decade by artists from the central desert, where the contemporary painting movement began, and from adjoining regions, to which the movement spread. The works on view—all of which have never before been on public display—will feature paintings by prominent artists, including some of the founders of the contemporary movement, as well as emerging figures. This is the first presentation of contemporary Australian Aboriginal painting to be held at the Metropolitan Museum.

• Metropolitan Museum Celebrates 35th Anniversary of Packard Collection Acquisition

  Sunday, January 3, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  In 1975, The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired, by gift and purchase, more than 400 works of Japanese art from collector Harry G. C. Packard (1914-1991). This daring acquisition instantly transformed the Museum into an institution with one of the finest collections of its kind in the West, comprised of encyclopedic holdings from the Neolithic period through the 19th century.

• Exhibition Featuring Musical Instruments of Pacific Islands Goes on View at Metropolitan Museum

  Sunday, January 3, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania, the first exhibition devoted to the subject ever mounted by an art museum, will open at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on November 17. Featuring more than 50 outstanding works—including percussion, wind, and string instruments and forms unique to the Pacific—the exhibition will explore not only the diverse forms of Oceanic musical instruments but also the many different roles they play, or played, in Pacific cultures, from announcing the onset of war, to embodying the voices of supernatural beings or softly enticing a lover. Drawn primarily from the Museum's collection, the exhibition will showcase the objects that were created and used from the early 19th to the late 20th century in all five regions of Oceania: Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia, Australia, and Island Southeast Asia. The works on view include instruments ranging from small flutes and ocarinas used for private entertainment or courtship, to massive slit gongs played in performances for entire communities, in which the thundering beats can carry for miles.

• Rare North Italian Renaissance Drawings Featured in New Installation at Metropolitan Museum

  Sunday, January 3, 2010, 5:00 a.m.

  North Italian Drawings, 1410–1550: Selections from the Robert Lehman Collection and the Department of Drawings and Prints, on view from November 3, 2009–January 31, 2010, features 31 exceedingly rare drawings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Robert Lehman Collection, with an additional nine chosen from the Department of Drawings and Prints. The installation showcases a period in Italian art that saw the emergence of drawing as an essential tool for artists and includes a selection of works that illustrate the versatility of the medium over more than a century. Drawings from the later 15th century show how artists used the medium to work out elaborate, multi-figured compositions, and several works from the 16th century reveal the close relationship between drawing and painting.