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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.
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Good Humor at the Met—Caricature and Satire Explored in Infinite Jest at the Metropolitan MuseumSeptember 13, 2011–March 4, 2012
Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
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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.)
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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.
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Schedule of Exhibitions
January - June 2012
Monday, September 5, 2011, 4:00 a.m.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.