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NEWS ABOUT: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art stories: 13 news summaries

 China To Scour 
 Museums for 
 Looted Art 

Artifact team will hunt for Imperial Gardens booty

Oct 22, 09 3:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - China is about to send teams of artifact hunters to the world's top museums to track down looted art treasures. They'll be on the lookout for art from the splendid Imperial Gardens of Yuan Ming Yuan, more commonly known as the Old Summer Palace, which was used by Chinese emperors... More »

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China • art • museums • British Museum • The Louvre • Metropolitan Museum of Art • looted art • summer palace

 Met Bares 1st Work 
 by Michelangelo, 12 

'St. Anthony Tormented by Demons' amazed young apprentice's master

Jun 19, 09 1:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A work believed to be Michelangelo's first painting has made its American debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Times reports. St. Anthony Tormented by Demons, a customized copy of a German print, is thought to have been painted in 1487 when Michelangelo was a 12-year-old apprentice... More »

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painting • artist • Michelangelo • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Renaissance

ART REVIEW

 Francis Bacon's Work 
 Relied on 'Gimmick' 


May 20, 09 1:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Francis Bacon’s paintings still have the ability to shock, but beneath that initial thrill lies a consistent, even amateur, formula that “had grown stagnant by 1965,” Jerry Saltz writes in New York in previewing a retrospective opening today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. “The calculated... More »

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Francis Bacon • painting • painter • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Jay-ZTV • fine art • grotesque

 First Lady 
 Praises Arts 
 on NYC Visit 

Michelle attends ballet gala, reopening of
Met's American wing

May 19, 09 5:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Michelle Obama emphasized the administration's support for the arts on a visit to New York City yesterday, the New York Times reports. Speaking at the ribbon-cutting for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's partially reopened American wing and at the star-studded opening night of the American Ballet Theater, the first lady... More »

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Michelle Obama • art • American Ballet Theatre • National Endowment for the Arts • Metropolitan Museum of Art • first lady

 Met's New Look 
 Lets the Light In 

American Wing reopens tomorrow

May 18, 09 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopens its American Wing tomorrow after a refurbishment that was “all about transparency,” its chairman says. Where benches and shrubs once constricted movement, now visitors can sit on a fountain’s edge, look out on Central Park, and ride a glass elevator “... More »

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art museum • New York City • Metropolitan Museum of Art • renovation • refurbishing • Jay-ZTV

 Rihanna Hits 
 Red Carpet, 
 Nixes Concert 

Singer debuts at Met, cancels show on same day

May 5, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rihanna hit the red carpet last night for the first time since her alleged beating by Chris Brown, the AP reports. The singer, clad in a tuxedo, attended the Metropolitan Museum’s annual costume gala. Also yesterday, a comeback concert in Dubai—scheduled for May 28, the day of Brown’... More »

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entertainment • celebrity trials • domestic violence • Dubai • celebrity • concert • red carpet • assault • Rihanna • Metropolitan Museum of Art • physical abuse • Chris Brown

 Met 
 Unveils 
 X-Rated 
 Renaissance 

New exhibition includes 16th-century porn alongside masterpieces

Dec 23, 08 9:57 AM CST
(Newser) - Art and Love in Renaissance Italy, a new exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, comes with a warning to spectators: parental discretion advised. Mixed in with decorous portraits of noblemen are 16th-century pornographic images, dirty books, and other obscene artifacts. For Wall Street Journal critic James Gardner,... More »

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art museum • New York • art • pornography • sex • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Renaissance

Met Surprises With Choice of New Director

Tapestries curator takes over America's top museum job

Sep 10, 08 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Metropolitan Museum in New York has chosen Thomas P. Campbell, its curator of European tapestries, as its new director, reports the New York Times. Campbell succeeds Philippe de Montebello, who transformed the Met during his 31 years at the helm. The selection of Campbell, an insider who did not... More »

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art museum • New York • art • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Philippe de Montebello • Thomas P. Campbell

Wanted: Museum Director
to Marry Art, Commerce

Unique job description complicates search for Guggenheim, Met, others

Jul 15, 08 2:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - American museums are facing a shift in leadership, Newsweek reports, with 20 of the most prominent fine-art institutions—including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Guggenheim Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art—in search of directors. A "generational shift" has left institutions seeking specific qualifications: "Ideally... More »

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art museum • art • museum • MBA • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum • management • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Philadelphia Museum of Art

NEW RELEASE

Scandal-Master Courbet Dazzles

Major retrospective sheds light on realist painter

Feb 29, 08 2:55 PM CST
(Newser) - Parlaying scandal into success may seem a terribly modern ploy, but Gustave Courbet, the subject of a new retrospective at New York's Metropolitan Museum, mastered the art 150 years ago. Courbet, the realist painter and father of modern art, painted both gorgeous, subtle scenes and uglier, intentionally awkward tableaux. They... More »

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art • modern art • painting • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Gustave Courbet • realism

OPINION

For Jasper Johns, Gray Matters

Monochromatic Met show opens to raves

Feb 8, 08 1:56 PM CST
(Newser) - Visitors to the major Jasper Johns exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum in New York might find the art a bit colorless. But that's precisely the point: The renowned American artist has filled the galleries with 119 paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures executed in shades of gray. The nearly monochromatic show... More »

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New York • art • painting • Jasper Johns • Metropolitan Museum of Art

Long-Serving Met Director
Set to Retire

Philippe de Montebello transformed New York's most popular attraction

Jan 9, 08 12:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Philippe de Montebello, the longest-serving director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will retire by year's end, Bloomberg reports. Since he took over in 1977, the museum has nearly doubled its exhibition space, including popular Greek and Roman antiquities galleries that opened in April; at 4.6 million visitors a... More »

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New York City • art • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Philippe de Montebello

Metropolitan Museum Scores Arbus Archive

Priceless gift includes thousands of negatives, annotated prints

Dec 18, 07 9:10 AM CST
(Newser) - Two years after New York's Metropolitan Museum mounted a landmark Diane Arbus retrospective, the photographer's daughters have donated her complete archives to the museum, reports the New York Times. The gift includes 7,500 rolls of film, hundreds of early photographs, and print sleeves Arbus annotated by hand before she... More »

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art • photography • Diane Arbus • Metropolitan Museum of Art

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