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92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
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...
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
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
Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
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...
Island Med Student (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
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 [...]
AN AESTHETE'S LAMENT (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
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) | 11/20/2009
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) | 11/20/2009
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) | 11/20/2009
In January, a 16th-century draftsman finally gets his due at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
-- 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) | 11/18/2009
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) | 11/18/2009
admin / NoWatermark.net Similar Posts: Ashley Greene @ The Museum of Modern Art Film Benefit: A Tribute To Tim Burton in New York City, November 17 – 7 HQs Ashley and Mary - Kate Olsen @ Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala – Arrivals & Departures, New York City, May 5 – 31 HQs Lisa Edelstein @ 2009 Whitney Museum Gala at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New...
The Cultural Tourist (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
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) | 11/17/2009
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...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Sue Townsend imagines a life as a bon vivant, cello virtuoso and art critic In my other life, I do not have diabetes, I have no use for a wheelchair and I have perfect vision. I am nine-and-a-half stone. My capsule wardrobe is by Chanel. I occasionally pilot a light plane from Leicester to St Paul de Vence where I have a permanent room at La Colombe d'Or. I give cello recitals in the Chapelle du Rosaire,...
Women's Wear Daily (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
There wasn't a plastic cup in sight before the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Carolina Herrera-sponsored Apollo Circle Benefit.
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sathish2 | 09/29/2009
Photos:Last week Barack and Michelle Obama hosted a reception for visiting foreign dignitaries at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Over the course of the evening, the president, whose "amazingly consistent" smile created a viral video, and first lady posed for over 130 photographs with thei...
fashionmagus | 05/05/2009
Here`s Israeli beauty Bar Refaeli looking lovely on the red carpet,at “The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion” Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Monday (May 4).Pretty dress(by Marchesa) on a pretty girl,I don’t think it really matters what I write about these Bar Refaeli pictures seeing as most of you will be transfixed on her body anyway.Bar’s body is amazing,
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