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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and most respected art museums. Located along Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, the Met's permanent collection has more than two million works of art.  Show more »
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and most respected art museums. Located along Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan, the Met's permanent collection has more than two million works of art.  « Show less

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    Nov 22, 2008 |Story| Associated Press

  1. Tenor's Met Opera feat: 2 major roles in a day

    Italian tenor Marcello Giordani has pulled off the rare feat of singing two major roles in a single day at New York's Metropolitan Opera. Giordani performed the title role in Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust" during a matinee Saturday. A few hours...

    Tags: Benjamin Franklin, Music Theater, Opera

    2. Nov 21, 2008 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  2. Upcoming design/antique events for Nov. 21

    Hollywood Flea Market: 8 a.m.to noon Saturday at the Fred Lippman Center, 2030 Polk St., Hollywood. Includes antiques, collectibles, clothing, silver, glassware and dinnerware. Call 954-921-3408. Staging Techniques: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays from Nov....

    Tags: Whitehall, Delray Beach, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Collectibles

    3. Nov 24, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. 'Giorgio Morandi: 1890-1964'

    " Giorgio Morandi: 1890-1964," the enthralling exhibition of 110 paintings, drawings and prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a bit of a surprise, but not for revealing an overlooked master. The show, as the first Morandi retrospective ever mounted in the United States, was in fact guaranteed to be loved. It includes some landscapes and a couple of dry self-portraits, but his spare still-life paintings, with their pale, sensuously brushed forms, reliably send a shiver down the art public's spine.
    Art Critic
    " Giorgio Morandi: 1890-1964," the enthralling exhibition of 110 paintings, drawings and prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a bit of a surprise, but not for revealing an overlooked master. The show, as the first Morandi retrospective ever...

    Tags: Apples, Biscuits, World War II, Painting, Giorgio Morandi

    4. Nov 17, 2008 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  4. Painter Grace Hartigan recalled as 'restless spirit'

    Before she passed away Saturday after a long illness, Grace Hartigan was adamant, even imperious about the arrangements for how she would be memorialized. And she will get her way, as Hartigan, a seminal figure in the U.S. art world and a longtime...

    Tags: Baltimore Museum of Art, Death and Dying, Timonium, Frank O'Hara, World War II

    5. Nov 9, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. Loot! Chicago at center of battle between archeologists, collectors

    On April 11, 2003, three days after American tanks rumbled into Baghdad and the day after looters swarmed the Iraq National Museum like a plague of locusts, Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon press corps enjoyed a little laugh at the expense of Iraq's catastrophe. "The images you are seeing on television you are seeing over and over and over, and it's the same picture of some person walking out of some building with a vase, and you see it 20 times and you think, 'My goodness, were there that many vases?' Is it possible that there were that many vases in the whole country?" the defense secretary asked with mock astonishment. This was vintage Rumsfeld, and the journalists chuckled appreciatively. The looting would continue for two more days.
    On April 11, 2003, three days after American tanks rumbled into Baghdad and the day after looters swarmed the Iraq National Museum like a plague of locusts, Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon press corps enjoyed a little laugh at the expense of Iraq's...

    Tags: DePaul University, National Government, Auction Service, Punishment, Defense

    6. Nov 15, 2008 |Story| Allentown Morning Call

  6. The trials of another president-elect

    Of The Morning Call
    Abraham Lincoln lived a lifetime and a half during the four months between his first election and inauguration as America's 16th CEO. He faced secession, an assassination plot and a barrage of complaints about his stance, or non-stance, on slavery. And...

    Tags: National Government, 2009 U.S. Presidential Inauguration, Dogs, James Buchanan, Music Theater

    7. Nov 18, 2008 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  7. President George W. Bush bestows medals on administration members too

    WASHINGTON (AP)—President George W. Bush brought something unusual to a White House awards ceremony Monday: some surprises. At an East Room ceremony honoring this year's recipients of the National Medals of Arts and National Humanities Medals, Bush...

    Tags: Gabor Boritt, National Government, Nashville, Ceremonies, Society

    8. Nov 9, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Giorgio Morandi, bottle by bottle

    Giorgio Morandi is a quiet giant in the world of art history. A painter and printmaker, he spent his entire life (1890-1964) in and around his native Bologna, Italy, traveling abroad only twice, briefly. After completing his studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, Morandi was drafted into the military in 1915 but became seriously ill and was dismissed as unfit for service. He returned to the family home he shared with his mother and three sisters, working there and in the surrounding countryside for the next 50 years.
    Giorgio Morandi is a quiet giant in the world of art history. A painter and printmaker, he spent his entire life (1890-1964) in and around his native Bologna, Italy, traveling abroad only twice, briefly. After completing his studies at the Accademia di...

    Tags: Venice, Photography, Painting, Giorgio Morandi

    9. Nov 13, 2008 |Story| Hartford Courant

  9. Judith Leiber's Handbags Sparkle At New Britain Museum of Art

    Special to The Courant
    Most fashion edicts, where accessories are concerned, will tell you to be judicious with glitz. Make one bold statement instead of several; keep bling in check Judith Leiber shatters that advice into a million shiny pieces. Which is fitting: The...

    Tags: Metal and Mineral, New Britain Museum of American Art, World War II, New Britain, Charity

    10. Nov 16, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Illuminated medieval books at the Getty

    It takes piles of money and power to commission projects destined to become pinnacles of art history. Sometimes it also takes a bit of royal boredom. <b>&#182;</b> Just listen to Timothy B. Husband, curator of the <a href=&quot;http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_Of_Art/the_cloisters">Cloisters Collection</a> of medieval art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He's providing some background on <a href="http://www.getty.edu/news/press/center/belles_heures_050508.html">&ldquo;The Belles Heures of the Duke of Berry,&rdquo;</a> an exhibition opening Tuesday at the J. Paul Getty Museum. <b>&#182;</b> "Jean de France, duc de Berry, was son, brother and uncle of successive kings of France. As prince of the realm, he was in a position to commission almost anything he wanted," Husband says of an extravagantly ambitious art patron who lived from 1340 to 1416. "He began by collecting palaces and chateaux, building chapels and that sort of thing. After he had gone through about 17 of those, he moved on to other works of art." <b>&#182;</b> As ruler of Auvergne and Berry, a historical area in central France, the duke controlled a huge portion of the country during the middle period of the Hundred Years' War. With exacting tastes, he hired the finest artists and made sure they had the best materials to create tapestries, sculptures and gemstone-studded gold objects that Husband calls "lavish displays of excessive consumption." But he is probably better known for the passion that seized him at about 40 years of age: luxury manuscripts -- particularly illuminated personal prayer books known as Books of Hours.
    It takes piles of money and power to commission projects destined to become pinnacles of art history. Sometimes it also takes a bit of royal boredom. ¶ Just listen to Timothy B. Husband, curator of the Cloisters Collection of medieval art at the...

    Tags: Family, History, Wildlife, Natural Resources

    11. Nov 1, 2008 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  11. From preservation to desperation

    Before her death in 1976, the noted Baltimore artist Grace Turnbull wrote a will leaving her valuable Guilford residence and much of her prized artwork to the Maryland Historical Society, with the stipulation that &quot;the premises be kept intact as far as possible" and perhaps even exhibited "as a memorial to my family and me."
    Before her death in 1976, the noted Baltimore artist Grace Turnbull wrote a will leaving her valuable Guilford residence and much of her prized artwork to the Maryland Historical Society, with the stipulation that "the premises be kept intact as far as...

    Tags: Family, Harbor East, Baltimore Museum of Art, Auction Service, Fells Point

    12. Oct 23, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. The Met honors its own

    When Philippe de Montebello announced his retirement earlier this year, the curators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art quickly came up with the perfect going-away gift for their long-serving director.
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    When Philippe de Montebello announced his retirement earlier this year, the curators at the Metropolitan Museum of Art quickly came up with the perfect going-away gift for their long-serving director. An exhibit, of course. It was a mammoth task: In...

    Tags: Montebello

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