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• April Events to Mark 50th Anniversary of Presidential Award of Temple of Dendur to The Met

  Friday, March 31, 2017, 9:53 p.m.

• Rare Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts to Be Shown during Passover at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters

  Friday, March 31, 2017, 7:46 p.m.

• Stephanie D’Alessandro Named Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art at The Met

  Tuesday, March 21, 2017, 3:35 p.m.

• Statement from The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Proposed Elimination of Funding for the NEA, NEH,
  and IMLS

  Thursday, March 16, 2017, 5:36 p.m.

• New York City Students’ Original Art and Writing
  to Be Exhibited at The Met

  Wednesday, March 15, 2017, 5:02 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum to Reopen Wednesday, March 15

  Tuesday, March 14, 2017, 7:50 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Will Be Closed Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 14

  Monday, March 13, 2017, 11:22 p.m.

• Chinese Tea House–Themed Pop-Up Café
  Opens at The Met Today

  Wednesday, March 8, 2017, 4:08 p.m.

• Adrián Villar Rojas Named Artist for The Met’s 2017 Cantor Roof Garden Commission

  Monday, March 6, 2017, 2:00 p.m.

• The Met Receives Monumental 10th-Century
  Chinese Painting Riverbank from Oscar L. Tang

  Thursday, March 2, 2017, 5:31 p.m.

• Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, To Step Down

  Tuesday, February 28, 2017, 8:39 p.m.

• Statement from Director Thomas P. Campbell on Proposed Elimination of Funding for National Endowment for the Arts

  Tuesday, February 28, 2017, 8:30 p.m.

• The Met Announces Schedule of Informal
  Curatorial Talks about Middle Eastern Art

  Thursday, February 23, 2017, 8:12 p.m.

• Curatorial Chats on Art from Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Yemen Continue Through March 31

  Thursday, February 16, 2017, 2:00 p.m.

• Four Chats for Four Countries:
  Informal Curatorial Talks about Art from
  Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Yemen

  Friday, February 10, 2017, 2:00 p.m.

• The Met Hosts Inaugural Conference of German/American Provenance Research Exchange Program

  Wednesday, February 8, 2017, 2:00 p.m.

• The Met Makes Its Images of Public-Domain Artworks Freely Available through New Open Access Policy

  Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 4:39 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Extends
  Performances of The Museum Workout

  Friday, February 3, 2017, 7:29 p.m.

• The Met Hosts Annual Lunar New Year Festival to Celebrate Year of the Rooster

  Tuesday, January 31, 2017, 2:00 p.m.

• French Sculptor Auguste Rodin Centenary
  Celebrated in North America with
  Exhibitions and Educational Programs

  Monday, January 30, 2017, 10:19 p.m.

• Pauline Oliveros’ Vocal Improvisation
  "Tuning Meditation" Staged at
  The Met Cloisters

  Thursday, January 19, 2017, 7:40 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Presents Conversations and Special Events Inspired by Kerry James Marshall: Mastry

  Friday, January 13, 2017, 3:14 a.m.

• Kenneth Weine Named Chief Communications
  Officer of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Wednesday, January 4, 2017, 6:52 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Elects New Trustees Linda Macklowe, Merryl Tisch, and Dasha Zhukova

  Monday, November 28, 2016, 6:57 p.m.

• The Holiday Season Comes Alive at The Met
  through Performances, Events, and Special Displays

  Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 9:55 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  2017 Season of MetLiveArts

  Tuesday, November 15, 2016, 8:56 p.m.

• Gilded Age Drawings at The Met

  Monday, November 14, 2016, 12:00 p.m.

  August 21–December 6, 2017

• Talking Pictures: Camera-Phone Conversations Between Artists

  Monday, November 14, 2016, 10:40 a.m.

  June 27, 2017–December 17, 2018

• Cosmic Buddhas in the Himalayas

  Monday, November 14, 2016, 10:37 a.m.

  June 24–December 10, 2017
  

  
  

• The Body Politic: Video from The Met Collection

  Monday, November 14, 2016, 10:35 a.m.

  June 20–September 3, 2017

• American Indian Art from the Fenimore Art Museum: The Thaw Collection

  Monday, November 14, 2016, 10:25 a.m.

  May 9–October 8, 2017
  

• Paradise of Exiles: Early Photography in Italy

  Monday, November 14, 2016, 10:10 a.m.

  March 13–August 13, 2017

• Sara Berman’s Closet

  Monday, November 14, 2016, 10:09 a.m.

  March 6–November 26, 2017

• Carpets for Kings: Six Masterpieces of Iranian Weaving

  Monday, November 14, 2016, 10:08 a.m.

  March 3–August 27, 2017

• Late Antique Textiles and Modern Design

  Monday, November 14, 2016, 9:00 a.m.

  November 11, 2016–October 1, 2017
  

• Show and Tell: Stories in Chinese Painting

  Monday, November 14, 2016, 7:00 a.m.

  October 29, 2016–August 6, 2017
  
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• Splendors of Korean Art

  Monday, November 14, 2016, 3:00 a.m.

  October 1, 2016–September 17, 2017

• From the Imperial Theater: Chinese Opera Costumes of the 18th and 19th Centuries

  Sunday, November 13, 2016, 8:00 p.m.

  First rotation: June 25, 2016–January 8, 2017
  Second rotation: January 14–October 9, 2017

• Cinnabar: The Chinese Art of Carved Lacquer, 14th–19th Century

  Sunday, November 13, 2016, 7:00 p.m.

  June 25, 2016–October 9, 2017

• Colors of the Universe: Chinese Hardstone Carvings

  Sunday, November 13, 2016, 6:00 p.m.

  June 25, 2016–October 9, 2017

• Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawing #370

  Sunday, November 13, 2016, 3:00 p.m.

  June 30, 2014–January 28, 2018
  

• Fabergé from the Matilda Geddings Gray
  Foundation Collection

  Sunday, November 13, 2016, 2:00 p.m.

  November 22, 2011–November 30, 2021

• The Roof Garden Commission: Adrián Villar Rojas,
  The Theater of Disappearance

  Saturday, November 12, 2016, 4:00 p.m.

  April 14–October 29, 2017
  (weather permitting)

  Link to Artist's Statement
  

• Cristóbal de Villalpando: Mexican Painter of the Baroque

  Saturday, November 12, 2016, 3:30 p.m.

  July 25–October 15, 2017

• Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical

  Saturday, November 12, 2016, 12:00 p.m.

  July 21–October 8, 2017

• The Met Premieres First Episodes of Podcast by Artist in Residence Nate DiMeo of The Memory Palace

  Thursday, October 27, 2016, 7:30 p.m.

• The Met Presents Epic Stories as Theme of
  Its First Ever “World Culture Festival”

  Wednesday, October 26, 2016, 2:53 p.m.

• Costume Institute’s Spring 2017 Exhibition at The Met to Focus on Rei Kawakubo and the Art of the In-Between

  Thursday, October 20, 2016, 7:59 p.m.

  
  

• The Costume Institute

  Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 8:30 p.m.

  The Costume Institute’s collection of more than 35,000 costumes and accessories represents five continents and seven centuries of fashionable dress, regional costumes, and accessories for men, women, and children, from the 15th century to the present.

• Free Museum-Wide Cultural Event for Teens
  Returns to The Met

  Monday, October 17, 2016, 9:29 p.m.

• In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in a Day

  Thursday, October 13, 2016, 9:03 p.m.

• New Restaurant and Café—Flora Bar and Flora Coffee—Now Open at The Met Breuer

  Tuesday, October 11, 2016, 4:24 p.m.

• AXA Donates to The Met 29 Drawings and Studies Related to Thomas Hart Benton’s Mural America Today

  Tuesday, October 11, 2016, 3:46 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Welcomes
  New Class of Fellows

  Wednesday, October 5, 2016, 8:02 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art and India’s Ministry of Culture Renew Long-term Cooperative Relationship, Enabling Continuation of Cultural Partnerships for Conservation, Exhibitions, Research, and Other Exchanges

  Friday, September 30, 2016, 9:40 p.m.

• New Publication Surveys Five Millennia
  of Paintings at The Met

  Thursday, September 15, 2016, 8:19 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art Named
  World’s Top Museum in TripAdvisor
  Travelers’ Choice Awards for
  Second Year

  Tuesday, September 13, 2016, 1:58 p.m.

• 752,995 Visitors to Costume Institute’s
  Manus x Machina Make It the 7th Most
  Visited Exhibition in The Met’s History

  Tuesday, September 6, 2016, 8:44 p.m.

• The Met Extends Hours for Final Weekend of
  Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology

  Thursday, August 25, 2016, 1:40 p.m.

• Costume Institute’s Fall 2016 Exhibition to
  Focus on Recently Collected Masterworks

  Monday, August 22, 2016, 7:28 p.m.

• Visitorship of 6.7 Million Sets New Annual
  Attendance Record at The Met

  Thursday, August 4, 2016, 7:14 p.m.

• Nepalese Ritual Crown Donated to The Met by
  Barbara Levy Kipper

  Monday, August 1, 2016, 6:01 p.m.

• Olivier Rousteing is the Next Guest for
  The Atelier with Alina Cho this Fall

  Tuesday, July 19, 2016, 9:07 p.m.

• Eight Paintings by Leading Aboriginal Artists Enhance The Met’s Contemporary Art Holdings through Promised Gift from Robert Kaplan and Margaret Levi

  Thursday, July 14, 2016, 5:22 p.m.

• Two Hellenistic Treasures from Berlin’s Famed
  Pergamon Museum to Remain on View at The Met
  for Two More Years

  Wednesday, July 13, 2016, 9:48 p.m.

• New Weekend Hours at The Met Breuer

  Tuesday, July 12, 2016, 4:26 p.m.

• Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology Extended through September 5 at The Met

  Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 4:35 p.m.

• Renovated Galleries of Ptolemaic Art at The Met
  to Reopen July 1

  Wednesday, June 29, 2016, 2:33 p.m.

• Gardens at The Met Cloisters

  Thursday, June 23, 2016, 9:15 p.m.

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  While many of the herbs and flowers in the three enclosed gardens at The Met Cloisters are at their peak in late spring and early summer, there are plantings inspired by the Middle Ages to see year-round at this the branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art dedicated to the art and architecture of medieval Europe . Located on a hilltop in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan, The Met Cloisters enjoys an unparalleled view of the Hudson River and the New Jersey Palisades from several vantage points.

• Gardens at The Met Cloisters

  Thursday, June 23, 2016, 9:15 p.m.

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• The Met Cloisters: An Overview

  Thursday, June 23, 2016, 8:22 p.m.

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  Opened in 1938 as a branch of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met Cloisters is America’s only museum dedicated exclusively to the art and architecture of the Middle Ages. Including a museum and gardens within a single complex, it picturesquely overlooks the Hudson River in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan and derives its name from the portions of five medieval cloisters incorporated into a modern museum structure. Not replicating any one particular medieval building type or setting, but rather designed to evoke the architecture of the later Middle Ages, The Met Cloisters creates an integrated and harmonious context in which visitors can experience the rich tradition of medieval artistic production, including metalwork, painting, sculpture, and textiles. By definition, a cloister consists of a covered walkway surrounding a large open courtyard that provides access to other monastic buildings. Similarly, the museum’s cloisters act as passageways to galleries; they provide as inviting a place for rest and contemplation for visitors as they often did in their original monastic settings.

• P.S. Art Returns to The Met for Ninth
  Consecutive Season

  Tuesday, June 7, 2016, 3:09 p.m.

• The Met Expands Programming on MetFridays
  This Summer with Live Performances, Featured Events,
  and Restaurant Specials

  Friday, June 3, 2016, 7:04 p.m.

• Alexander Wang Is Next Guest for
  The Atelier with Alina Cho

  Wednesday, May 18, 2016, 1:03 p.m.

• The Met Announces Renovation of British Galleries

  Tuesday, May 17, 2016, 3:49 p.m.

• MetFridays—“New York’s Night Out”—Expands to
  The Met Cloisters through Labor Day

  Tuesday, May 17, 2016, 10:00 a.m.

• Next Teens Take The Met! Set for May 20

  Monday, May 16, 2016, 12:45 p.m.

• Quincy Houghton to Join The Met as
  Associate Director for Exhibitions

  Tuesday, April 12, 2016, 5:21 p.m.

• Restored Saint Michael the Archangel
  by Andrea della Robbia Back on View at
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Tuesday, April 5, 2016, 6:01 p.m.

• The Met Announces Museum Directors Selected for Third Global Museum Leaders Colloquium

  Monday, April 4, 2016, 5:08 p.m.

• The Met Breuer Joins Bank of America
  Museums on Us® Program

  Friday, April 1, 2016, 6:32 p.m.

• The Met Breuer to Open to Public with Three-day Weekend Celebration, March 18-20

  Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 8:00 p.m.

• The Met Breuer Opens to the Public on March 18, 2016 Expanding The Met’s Modern and Contemporary Program

  Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 7:00 p.m.

• The Met Breuer Fact Sheet

  Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 6:00 p.m.

• “Phaidon x The Met Bookstore” at The Met Breuer

  Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 4:00 p.m.

• Philip F. Maritz and William Pierson Rayner
  Elected to Metropolitan Museum Board

  Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 3:00 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Launches Final Season of Acclaimed Online Series The Artist Project

  Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 2:00 p.m.

  
  

• The Met Enhances Website and Digital Platforms,
  Elevating Online to a “Fourth Space”

  Monday, February 29, 2016, 6:01 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art to Settle Class Action
  Lawsuit; Refines Admission Signs to Affirm Museum’s
  Long-Standing “Pay What You Wish” Policy

  Friday, February 26, 2016, 4:11 p.m.

• Met Museum Celebrates 100 Years of Collecting
  Works on Paper with Exhibitions, Programs,
  and “Artwork of the Week” Series

  Friday, February 19, 2016, 4:18 p.m.

• Statement from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  on Its New Visual Identity

  Friday, February 19, 2016, 2:00 p.m.

  
  

• $946 Million in Spending in New York Generated by Visitors to Three Exhibitions at Metropolitan Museum in Summer 2015

  Wednesday, February 10, 2016, 10:50 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum’s Lunar New Year Festival
  to Celebrate Year of the Monkey

  Monday, February 1, 2016, 8:03 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collaborates
  with Estela Restaurateurs at The Met Breuer

  Wednesday, December 16, 2015, 3:57 p.m.

• Illusionist Ricky Jay and Critic Michael Kimmelman Discuss the Life and Work of Matthias Buchinger at the Metropolitan Museum

  Wednesday, December 16, 2015, 1:30 p.m.

• Debra R. Black Elected Metropolitan Museum Trustee

  Tuesday, December 15, 2015, 2:24 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Signs Memorandum of Understanding with Korea’s Ministry of Culture and Ministry Announces Major Gift to Support
  Korean Art Initiatives at the Museum

  Thursday, December 10, 2015, 7:18 p.m.

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• “Crown of the Andes,” Rare and Lavish Example of
  Goldsmith’s Work from Colonial Spanish America,
  Acquired by Metropolitan Museum

  Wednesday, December 2, 2015, 5:07 p.m.

• The Met Breuer to Open to the Public on
  March 18, 2016 With Three-Day
  Weekend Celebration

  Tuesday, December 1, 2015, 10:11 p.m.

• The Grand Tour: Asia Continues in the Asian Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Tuesday, November 24, 2015, 4:13 p.m.

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