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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
NEW YORK, NY (AP).- Nude, yes. Lewd, no. A New York judge dismissed public lewdness and other charges Monday against a model who posed for a nude photo shoot at a museum while visitors looked on. Kathleen "K.C." Neill was arrested in August during photographer Zach Hyman's shoot in the arms and armor department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Defense lawyer Thomas J. Hillgardner says...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Art Museum Journal (Stan Parchin) Susan J. Allen, Associate Research Curator in the Department of Egyptian Art at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, will retire on November 30, 2009 after more than 17 years of service. Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The recently opened Barnes & Noble on 86th St and Lexington has featured many local landmarks on the their lobby wall including the 92nd Street Y, (seen in the photo at left) The Vinegar Factory , The Metropolitan Museum of Art , and many more. That in of itself is cool, and the institutions featured on the mural, as well as Barnes & Noble itself, will make great additions to our neighborhood...
Island Med Student (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yesterday was a great day. I started the morning off with a nice run into Manhattan and back. After catching up on a few errands, Micah and I decided to go visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art to check out the Robert Frank exhibit. It ended up being a bit disappointing but all was well [...]
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Forbes.com (Sarah Wolff) Slideshow Besides ensuring tourism and providing storylines for scores of feature films, the mystique of ancient Egypt also launched a specific sort of museum show that has become de rigueur for large institutions: the blockbuster. When the traveling exhibition Treasures of Tutankhamun came to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1979, it broke all the museum's previous attendance...
AN AESTHETE'S LAMENT (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Some interior designers go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art when they need a little creative pick-me-up. Others stare intently at antique carpets or a scrap of handsomely coloured wallpaper. When I'm stumped for a colour scheme, however, I turn to the nearest shelf and begin perusing vintage and antique books. The covers often offer terrific colour combinations that would look splendid writ large...
man with black hat (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Taylor Mali is a forty-four-year-old slam poet, teacher, and voiceover artist. A native of New York City, he is also the great-great-grandson of the founding president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Taylor Johnston. But that's not why he's here. To put it in his own words, “I'm just, like, inviting you to join me on the bandwagon of my own uncertainty.” It is a critique of the...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
New York Times (John Tierney) I rather like the picture of the Egyptian statue with suitcases. Zahi Hawass regards the Rosetta Stone, like so much else, as stolen property languishing in exile. “We own that stone,” he told Al Jazeera, speaking as the secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. The British Museum does not agree — at least not yet. But never underestimate...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
In January, a 16th-century draftsman finally gets his due at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
-- Red ink: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has reported an $8.4-million deficit for the fiscal year that ended in June. (CultureGrrl) -- Broadway deal: The Shubert Organization has entered into an unusual, three-year deal with producers...
Maggie's Farm (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Eel Spearing at Setauket (1845) You can read a blurb about this painting here. The picture is part of a current show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Stories: Paintings from Everyday Life 1865-1915.
Olsen Twins NEWS (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
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The Cultural Tourist (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
How often does the Metropolitan Museum of Art have on display two "rediscovered" works by titans of Western European Art? Right now there are two -- a portrait by the great 17th century Spanish artist Diego Velasquez and the statue of a young archer by Michelangelo unveiled a few weeks ago. When I asked Keith Christiansen, the John Pope-Hennessey Chairman of European Paintings at the Met,...
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
NEW YORK, NY.- 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 17th. Featuring more than 50 outstanding works—including percussion, wind, and string instruments —the exhibition will explore not only the diverse forms of Oceanic musical instruments but...
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
NEW YORK, NY.- "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. Featuring more than 50 outstanding works—including percussion, wind, and string instruments—the exhibition will explore not only the diverse forms of Oceanic musical instruments...
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