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Tuesday, Dec 22
‘Treasures From Packard Collection’ On View At Metropolitan Museum
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). The acquisition instantly transformed the museum into an institution with one of the finest collections of its kind in the West, compr...
Tuesday, Dec 15
Thomas Hoving, 78, Former Met Museum Director
Thomas Hoving, whose charismatic but controversial leadership of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is summed up in his autobiography Making the Mummies Dance , has died. He was 78.
Tuesday, Dec 8
Recently Rediscovered Velázquez Painting In New Met Museum Exhibition
Velázquez Rediscovered," a special exhibition that opened recently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, features a newly identified painting by Velázquez, "Portrait of a Man," formerly ascribed by the museum to the workshop of Velázquez and recently reattributed to the master himsel...
Tuesday, Nov 17
1914–1939 British Prints At Wolfsonian-FIU Museum
Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the exhibition was previously on view at both ...
Tuesday, Sep 1
Vermeer’s Masterpiece ‘The Milkmaid’ On View At Met Museum Sept. 10
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's historic voyage from the Netherlands to New York, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is sending "The Milkmaid," perhaps the most admired painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (1632—1675), to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Tuesday, Aug 11
Augustus Saint-Gaudens In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), the greatest American sculptor of his day and arguably the nation's finest sculptor ever, melded classical and modern styles in public statuary of enduring interest and importance.
