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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art is a nonprofit organization that runs an art museum. The organization is based in New York, NY and managed by Philippe de Montebello. Its official home on the web is http://www.metmuseum.org
Flamboyant and controversial director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New YorkThomas Hoving was the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from 1967 to 1977 and became one of three great showman directors of western art institutions from the early 1930s: the other two were Alfred H Barr, the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, who created from scratch the second-finest museum of modern art, and Pontus...
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It is hard to credit, when observing the vast multitudes milling about New
York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art like bargain seekers at Macy’s
Thanksgiving Day sale, that until the mid-1960s the cavernous galleries were
largely deserted except for the occasional educated art lover. Thomas
Hoving, the Met’s director between 1967 and 1977, changed all that.
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From timesonline.co.uk
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In a kind of cultural patrimony twist on "You break it, you own it," the Metropolitan Museum of Art today returned to Egypt an ancient Egyptian granite relief fragment that was identified by museum staff as part of a large shrine. The fragment, which has never been on public display at the Met, was on loan to the museum from a collector who claims to have purchased it in the 1970s. It is inscribed with the name of Amenemhat I, who ruled Egypt...
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NEW YORK
By VERENA DOBNIK
Associated Press
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," died Thursday. He was 78.
Hoving died of cancer at his Manhattan home, his family . . .Full Story
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Philippe de Montebello, left; his successor, Tom Campbell, right, speaking at the MetThe Metropolitan Museum's illustrious director emeritus, Professor Philippe de Montebello, is well into his fall semester course, "The Meaning of Museums," at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts....
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Insgesamt sind 120 Exponate zu sehen, darunter etwa 30 Werke aus dem Metropolitan Museum Zusammen mit dem Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York plant das Berliner Bode-Museum ab August 2011 eine Ausstellung mit Meisterwerken der italienischen Porträtkunst. Unter dem Titel «Gesichter der Renaissance» würden die «weltweit bedeutenden Bestände» der beiden Museen gemeinsam inszeniert, sagte Museumsdirektor Bernd Wolfgang Lindemann am Mittwoch in...
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From ad-hoc-news.de
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By John Richardson
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Exhibition
an exhibition at Tate Britain, London, September 11, 2008–January 4, 2009, the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, February 3–April 19, 2009, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, May 20–August 16, 2009
To celebrate Francis Bacon's centenary in 2009, Tate Britain mounted a retrospective exhibition that was subsequently shown at the Prado in Madrid and the Metropolitan Museum...
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NEW YORK, NY.- The Christmas tree and Neapolitan
Baroque crèche at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a long-established yuletide
tradition in New York, will be on view for the holiday season from November 24,
2009, through January 6, 2010. The brightly lit, 20-foot blue spruce –
with a collection of 18th-century Neapolitan angels and cherubs among its boughs
and groups of realistic crèche figures flanking the Nativity scene at its base...
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In an unusual turn of events, New York’s Metropolitan Museum purchased a four thousand year old relief from a collector with the sole intention of returning it to Egypt. It is unclear from this article whether there was any other motive present that led to this peculiar transaction.
From:
Press TV (Iran)
MET agrees to return Pharoanic relic [...]
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From elginism.com
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NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art will
present the marble sculpture Young Archer, attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti
(Florence 1475- Rome 1564), in its Vélez Blanco patio beginning November 3,
2009. The fragmentary marble figure of a nude youth, which is missing
arms and lower legs, was retained previously in the Fifth Avenue mansion that
has housed the Cultural Services office of the French Embassy for decades. The...
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