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Important Antiquities Lent by Republic of Italy on View at Metropolitan Museum

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Share A rare, recently excavated ancient Roman dining set consisting of 20 silver objects—one of only three such sets from the region of Pompeii known to exist in the world—and an important ancient Greek kylix (or drinking cup) have been installed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Galleries for Greek and Roman... »

Doug and Mike Starn Create Monumental Sculpture for Metropolitan Museum’s 2010 Roof Garden Installation

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Share Big Bambú to Open April 27 American artists Mike and Doug Starn (born 1961) have been invited by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to create a site-specific installation for The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, opening to the public on April 27. The identical twin brothers will present Big Bambú, a monumental... »

Picasso painting ripped by New York woman’s fall

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Share A woman who was taking an art class at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has accidentally fallen into a Picasso painting and damaged it. The painting called The Actor sustained a vertical tear of about six inches (15cm) in the lower right-hand corner. But the damage did not affect the “focal point of the composition”... »

‘Bargain ‘lost’ Chagall painting goes on display

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Share A previously unseen painting by Marc Chagall is to go on display after it was acquired by a small London gallery. The Ben Uri London Jewish Museum of Art bought the work, titled Apocalypse in Lilac, Capriccio, for a bargain £26,000 at an auction in Paris last year. The gallery bought the work in a secret... »

Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Share Exhibition Dates: April 27–August 1, 2010 Exhibition Location: Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor Press Preview: Monday, April 19, 10 a.m.–noon Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a landmark exhibition of 150 works by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), will present an unprecedented opportunity to view the Met’s extensive collection of the artist’s work. Opening... »

Still Crazy (for Velazquez) After All These Years

By Kevin Callahan

Share Velazquez, Portrait of A Man, the pink in the lower left shows the thinness of the paint, as that is the original ground showing through. The frame is a 17th Century Spanish frame from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum. On Monday, November 16 on a day when the estimable Metropolitan Museum of Art is... »

Exhibition Featuring Musical Instruments of Pacific Islands Goes on View at Metropolitan Museum

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Share Exhibition dates: November 17, 2009 – September 6, 2010 Location: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing Press Viewing: Monday, November 16, 10 a.m.–noon Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania, the first exhibition devoted to the subject ever mounted by an art museum, will open at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on November 17.... »

Metropolitan Museum of Art Returns a Granite Fragment to Egypt

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Share Fragment had been on loan and was recently identified as belonging to a larger work in Karnak The Metropolitan Museum of Art will return to Egypt tomorrow, October 29, an ancient Egyptian granite relief fragment inscribed with the name of Amenemhat I, ruler of Egypt from 1991 BC to 1962 BC. Curators in the... »

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