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Overheard in New York (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Patron : Do these stairs go up? --Metropolitan Museum of Art Overheard by: Maura Drunk White Sox fan to passerby : Hey, what time does Times Square close? --Outside Yankee Stadium Overheard by: giovanna Dude at the next table : Is Long Island really an island? --Peter Luger's, Williamsburg Overheard by: Yes, he really just said that (girl sees poster for Army Wives and turns to friend) Girl : I don't...
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PrairieMod (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
The Metropolitan Museum of Art houses an installed portion of the once-magnificent second Little House, giving visitors a sense of how grand this home once was. If you can't make it out to New York in person, you can now get a virtual tour of it on the Met's website. Check it out here. Image copyright the Met
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lines and colors :: a blog about drawing, painting, illustration, comics, webcomics, cartoons, concept art and other visual arts (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
I enjoyed this little video essay by New York Times writer Roberta Smith, in which she muses about a painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York that she had passed often without really stopping to look. After realizing that what she thought was a picture of women socializing was actually a studio [...]
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24headquarters.com (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
Image details: The Metropolitan Museum Of Art Costume Institute Annual Gala - Arrivals served by picapp.com Star Magazine is reporting that Julia Roberts may be guest starring on the upcoming season of 24. Such a high profile guest appearance would be a big get for 24, and Roberts’ first television guest starring role since her [...]
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Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
SUNNY DAY Joseph Mallord William Turner’s ‘Mortlake Terrace, the Seat of William Moffatt, Esq.; Summer’s Evening’ (exhibited 1827) is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current exhibition. (NY Sun) Go, NOW to the Met today for this excruciatingly beautiful Turner retrospective - Glorious, all of it. Turner is the master. No one capture light, nature, the wild of life like Turner ... Go, that...
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MSNBC.com: Newsweek Society (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
The White House isn't the only American institution about to change hands. In an unprecedented wave of turnovers at the top, several of the country's most prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, are looking for new directors. "We are facing a generational shift right now," says Millicent Gaudieri, executive director...
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MSNBC.com: Newsweek Society (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
The White House isn't the only American institution about to change hands. In an unprecedented wave of turnovers at the top, several of the country's most prominent museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, are looking for new directors. "We are facing a generational shift right now," says Millicent Gaudieri, executive director...
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The Velvet Blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Some photos I took at the Metropolitan Museum of Art the other day. Wish I could arrange these better, but uploading via Blogger always results in a bit of a mess. Click to embiggen.
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The First Post (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Graffiti artist Banksy (pictured here placing one of his own works in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) is no fool. For some years now, people have been removing…
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
SHELBURNE, VT - Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family features more than 60 works by Cassatt and Edgar Degas, many of which are on loan from private collections and museums including, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Cassatt’s signature monumental mother-and-child works figure prominently in the exhibit. Little known family portraits...
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Art in NYC (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
All I can say is the J. M. W. Turner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art was fantastic. I was never a Turner fan, his work was interesting, but somewhat “unresolved” - and yet there were paintings I liked, particularly the Venice paintings - but when you see all of see so much of J. [...]
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Slow Painting (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
“Snow Storm — Steam Boat Off a Harbor’s Mouth Making Signals in Shallow Water” The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “J. M. W. Turner” is a beast of a show. With nearly 150 works in oil and watercolor spanning more than half a century… In the history of Western painting, Turner looms large as a prodigiously gifted, [...]
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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
NEW YORK CITY - The Metropolitan Museum of Art is saddened to report that a late 15th-century glazed terracotta relief sculpture of Saint Michael the Archangel by Andrea della Robbia (1435-1525), came loose from metal mounts that have long held the framed lunette securely to the wall above a doorway in its European Paintings and Decorative Arts Galleries. The 62-x-32-inch relief, which has been on...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will feature classical music and rock in its concert series this fall. In addition to Itzhak Perlman, above left, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra playing Saint-Saëns’s “Carnival of the Animals” and the farewell season of the Guarneri String Quartet, artists including Patti Smith, above right, Richie Havens and Lesley Gore will be featured. Music from Mali, Mexico, Spain...
