12 Apr
Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute Salutes Power of Superheroes Imagery in Fashion Gala Benefit May 5, 2008, with Honorary Chair Giorgio Armani and Co-Chairs George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and Anna Wintour
Exhibition dates: May 7-September 1, 2008
Exhibition location: Special exhibition galleries, first floor
As superheroes enjoy a surge in mass popularity, The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum […]
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14 Mar
Photography on Photography
Reflections on the Medium since 1960
Exhibition Dates: April 8 - October 19, 2008
Exhibition Location: Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography
Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960, on view from April 8 through October 19, 2008, is the second exhibition in the Museum’s new gallery for contemporary photographs. Photography on […]
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22 Feb
One Million Visitors Drawn to New Greek and Roman Galleries at Metropolitan Museum
(New York - February 22, 2008) The Metropolitan Museum of Art tallied the one millionth visitor to its acclaimed New Greek and Roman Galleries on February 21. In the ten months since the galleries opened (on April 20, 2007), they have attracted an […]
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05 Feb
Metropolitan Museum Names Firm to Aid in Trustee Search for Next Director
(NEW YORK, February 4, 2008)-The Metropolitan Museum of Art today announced that it has retained the New York-based executive search firm Phillips Oppenheim to help organize and staff the international search for the institution’s next Director. The firm will work closely with the Museum’s […]
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30 Jan
Gustave Courbet, Radical and Rebellious 19th-Century Artist, Featured in Retrospective at Metropolitan Museum
Exhibition dates: February 27-May 18, 2008
Exhibition location: The Tisch Galleries, 2nd floor
Press preview: Monday, February 25, 10:00 a.m.-noon
A pioneering figure in the history of modernism and one of the major artists of mid-19thcentury
France, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was constantly at odds with authority. […]
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18 Jan
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
Exhibition dates: February 12 - May 11, 2008
Exhibition location: Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor
Press preview: Monday, February 11, 10:00 a.m. - noon
“I would like… to join the curves of the women to the shoulders of the hills…Like Poussin, I would like to put reason in the grass and tears […]
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14 Jan
Lee Friedlander: A Ramble in Olmsted Parks
Exhibition Dates: January 22 - May 11, 2008
Exhibition Location: The Howard Gilman Gallery
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the design for Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted’s 843-acre New York City masterpiece, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present Lee Friedlander: A Ramble in Olmsted Parks. On view […]
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11 Jan
Three Spectacular Vases Lent by Italy to Metropolitan Museum for Four Years Replace Euphronios Krater
As a result of the agreement negotiated by Philippe de Montebello, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Ministero per I Beni Culturali e Ambientali, the Republic of Italy is lending the Metropolitan Museum three outstanding ancient Greek vases […]
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10 Jan
After Three Decades as Director, Philippe de Montebello Announces Retirement from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(New York, January 8, 2008)-The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that Philippe de Montebello-whose long and storied career at the Museum has spanned nearly a third of the institution’s entire history-will retire after more than 30 years as its […]
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28 Dec
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be open on New Year’s Eve (9:30-5:30) this holiday season, as part of its Holiday Monday program.Many special exhibitions are now on view - including the immensely popular Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (open through January 6) and New Galleries for 19th- and […]
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