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1. Rebirth of a nation: the Metropolitan's American Wing: this month the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, unveils the transformation of its American Wing, which includes a new presentation of 12 of its period rooms. Philippa Glanville explains the curatorial challenges and assesses the results

Author

Glanville, Philippa

Subjects
Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities, Museum buildings -- Remodeling and renovation -- Design and construction, Art museums -- Buildings and facilities -- Design and construction, Art, American -- Collections and collecting -- Remodeling and renovation, Arts, visual and performing, Collections and collecting, Design and construction, Buildings and facilities, Remodeling and renovation
Abstract

Ever since it opened in 1924, the American Gallery of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has had to cope with a sense of detachment. Originally it was a [...]

Published
2009

2. Revisionism at the Met

Author

Esplund, Lance

Subjects
Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibitions, Art museums -- Buildings and facilities, Art museums -- Exhibitions, Architectural design -- Evaluation, Art, European -- Exhibitions
Abstract

In 1923, Picasso observed: "To me there is no pastor future in art. If a work of art cannot live always in the present, it must not be considered at […]

Published
2008

3. Glory & grandeur at the Met

Author

Grassi, Marco

Subjects
Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibitions, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities, Art, Greek -- Exhibitions, Art, Roman -- Exhibitions, Architectural design
Abstract

With the reopening of the Metropolitan's Greek and Roman galleries, the Great Hall of this museum has become a compelling visual metaphor for the Mediterranean. (1) Entering Richard Morris Hunt's […]

Published
2007

4. 'Back to the 20th Century'

Author

Sheets, Hilarie M.

Subjects
Art museums -- Buildings and facilities, Art museums -- Officials and employees, Arts, visual and performing, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Officials and employees
Abstract

Metropolitan Museum of Art announced in year 2004 the creation of a new department of 19th century's modern, and contemporary art, to be headed by Gary Tinterow, the museum's longtime Engelhard Curator of 19th Century European Paintings, as he succeeds Williams Lieberman. Tinterow will oversee the construction of the new galleries and integrate early 20th century art with the 19th century presentation.

Published
2004

5. Met Lets in the Light

Author

Barron, James

Subjects
Art exhibitions -- Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities
Abstract

For museum-goers accustomed to seeing familiar paintings in familiar places at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, things are about to get confusing. Giotto's ''The Adoration of the Magi'' will move [...]

Published
2018

6. The Met's new temple

Author

Powell, Eric A.

Subjects
Antiques -- Collections and collecting, Anthropology/archeology/folklore, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Collections and collecting, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities
Abstract

The addition of new galleries to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is discussed. The collection of antiques exhibited at the museum is described.

Published
2007

7. Romans of New York: new light on the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Author

McCaughey, Patrick

Subjects
Art museums -- Buildings and facilities, Art museums -- Remodeling and renovation, Art, Classical -- Exhibitions, Architectural design, Architectural criticism, Literature/writing, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Remodeling and renovation
Abstract

The article critiques the newly remodeled galleries housing classical artworks at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The renovation, producing 57,000 sq ft and costing $225 mil, is lauded. The article also addresses the ethical issues involving how ancient artworks are acquired, and what criteria constitute valid ownership.

Published
2007

8. 'Who Has Time for a Blank Canvas?'

Author

Vadukul, Alex

Subjects
Art museums -- Service introduction -- Public opinion, Company service introduction, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities
Abstract

MARTIN R. ANDERSON, 65, squints to appreciate the geometry of paintings at the museum. Kate Davis, 24, says the sunlight that bounces off museum walls and onto the art can't [...]

Published
2016

9. The Met and a New Logo

Author

Pogrebin, Robin and Kennedy, Randy

Subjects
Logos (Graphics) -- Appreciation, Letterheads -- Appreciation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities
Abstract

Does the Metropolitan Museum of Art have a new official logo? In what seemed to be a soft opening for its new design, Thomas P. Campbell, the museum's director, spoke [...]

Published
2016

10. More Technical Expertise Than Taste

Author

Johnson, Ken

Subjects
Museums -- Design and construction, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities
Abstract

The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently unveiled a new period room, and it's a beauty. Called the Worsham-Rockefeller Dressing Room, it's a consummate expression of Aestheticism, a trans-Atlantic, 19th-century design [...]

Published
2016

11. Mecca; On the Metropolitan Museum's swoon-inducing new galleries devoted to art of the Near East

Author

Saltz, Jerry

Subjects
Art museums -- Buildings and facilities, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities
Abstract

Byline: Jerry Saltz The Metropolitan Museum of Art's glorious new Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia have an encyclopedic name, [...]

Published
2011

12. The Met Names the Home for Its Modern Art

Author

Graustark, Barbara

Subjects
Art exhibitions -- Planning, Company business planning, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Whitney Museum of American Art -- Buildings and facilities, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities
Abstract

After months of guessing and contests on Facebook, are you ready for ''The Met Breuer''? On Wednesday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art finally revealed its new name for the Brutalist [...]

Published
2015

13. Uncertainty at the Met

Subjects
Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Officials and employees, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Aims and objectives, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities, Museum directors -- Appreciation, Museum directors -- Influence
Abstract

The announcement last month that Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1977, planned to retire at the end of 2008 was not unexpected. But it […]

Published
2008

14. Anna Wintour to Get Met Namesake

Author

Vogel, Carol

Subjects
Museums -- Names, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities
Abstract

When it reopens in May, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's fabled Costume Institute will be renamed the Anna Wintour Costume Center. Ms. Wintour, the editor in chief of Vogue and [...]

Published
2014

15. Met extension to launch in New York

Subjects
Art museums -- Buildings and facilities, Business, Business, international, Travel industry, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities
Abstract

NEW YORK'S METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART will open a new modern and contemporary outpost on March 18. The Met Breuer building on Madison Avenue was formerly home to the Whitney [...]

Published
2016

16. Korean treasure house

Author

Slessor, Catherine

Subjects
Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities, Art objects, Korean, Architects -- Contracts, Architectural firms -- Contracts -- Buildings and facilities, Museums, Art museums, Architectural practice -- Contracts -- Buildings and facilities, Architecture and design industries, Business, Contract agreement, Buildings and facilities, Contracts
Abstract

A new Korean gallery at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is distinguished by an elemental austerity that acts as a backdrop for the richness of the art on display. [...]

Published
1999

17. Bringing heavy metal to the Met's roof

Author

Johnson, Ken

Subjects
Sculpture -- Criticism and interpretation -- New York, Sculptors -- Works -- Criticism and interpretation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities
Abstract

No one in the 1960s produced livelier, more infectiously playful sculpture than the British artist Anthony Caro, five of whose works now grace the Metropolitan Museum of Art's rooftop garden. [...]

Published
2011

18. A jungle of bamboo is growing atop the Met

Author

Vogel, Carol

Subjects
Bamboo work -- Management, Company business management, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities
Abstract

ON a recent summerlike morning, men in T-shirts and women in bikini tops were busily working to the loud strains of Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix. Some looked [...]

Published
2010

19. Dispute at the Met escalates as the police ticket seven food vendors

Author

Chan, Sewell and Stonington, Joel

Subjects
Government regulation, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities, Peddlers -- Laws, regulations and rules -- Licensing, certification and accreditation
Abstract

In what appeared to be a coordinated crackdown on the proliferation of food vendors -- many of them disabled veterans -- outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, police officers swooped […]

Published
2009

20. Metropolitan Museum brushes up foodservice. (News)

Author

King, Paul

Subjects
Food services -- Buildings and facilities, Food services -- Recipes and menus, Food services -- Services, Art museums -- Buildings and facilities, Art museums -- Services, Business, Food and beverage industries, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Services, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Recipes and menus
Abstract

NEW YORK -- The Metropolitan Museum of Art last month revamped its decades-old foodservice operations when it opened a sleek, 460-seat cafeteria and a 135-seat upscale cafe that looks out [...]

Published
2003

21. A funhouse of views

Author

Wisniewski, Nicole

Subjects
Roof gardening -- Appreciation, Green roofs (Gardening) -- Appreciation, Architecture and design industries, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities
Abstract

A rooftop garden in the middle of such a large metropolitan area like New York City is a welcome, cooling haven. As one elevates above the city, this kind of [...]

Published
2014

22. New York's Metropolitan enters the 20th century with a bang

Author

Dudar, Helen

Subjects
Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities, Art museums -- Buildings and facilities, Museums, History, Buildings and facilities
Abstract

New York's Metropolitan enters the 20th century with a bang The Metropolitan Museum of Art, temple of high cultureand just about the only place in New York whose weekend crowds [...]

Published
1987

23. New Greek and Roman Galleries

Author

Hochfield, Sylvia

Subjects
Art museums -- Buildings and facilities, Arts, visual and performing, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities
Published
2007

25. Too high the cornices: the Met's new galleries

Author

Siegel, Lee

Subjects
Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities, Art museum architecture -- Criticism and interpretation, Art museums, Museums, Humanities, Literature/writing, Political science, Criticism and interpretation, Buildings and facilities
Abstract

In a lavish feat of nostalgia, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has spent $12.4 million on the renovation of a wing to house its renowned collection of nineteenth-century paintings and [...]

Published
1993

26. American plan

Author

Medford, Sarah

Subjects
Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities, Art museums -- Remodeling and renovation
Abstract

The American Wing at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art may have been conceived in the 1970s and opened in 1980, but this summer, with two-thirds of a three-part renovation […]

Published
2009

27. A $30-mil. investment: RA paints new picture for dining at The Met

Author

Riell, Howard

Subjects
Food services -- Buildings and facilities, Food services -- Finance, Food services -- Equipment and supplies, Food services -- Recipes and menus, Art museums -- Remodeling and renovation, Art museums -- Buildings and facilities, Company financing, Business, Food and beverage industries, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Buildings and facilities, Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Remodeling and renovation
Abstract

New York City's world-renowned Metropolitan Museum of Art has completed a stylish $30-million renovation of its decades-old f/s facilities. The space formerly used by the museum's main visitors' cafeteria will [...]

Published
2003

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