Metropolitan Museum of Art

Nude model 'was not illegally naked'

Digital Spy (Free subscription) | yesterday

The case is dropped against a model who was posing naked at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Metropolitan Museum of Art to Diaplay Neapolitan Baroque Creche for Holiday Season

Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009

NEW YORK, NY.- The Christmas tree and Neapolitan Baroque crèche at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a long-established yuletide tradition in New York, will be on view for the holiday season from November 24, 2009, through January 6, 2010. The brightly lit, 20-foot blue spruce – with a collection of 18th-century Neapolitan angels and cherubs among its boughs and groups of realistic crèche...

Disabled Vietnam Vet Hot Dog Vendor Arrested Outside Met

Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

A disabled Vietnam veteran who defied the city Parks Department by setting up a hot dog stand on prime real estate outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art was carted off in handcuffs yesterday. Dan Rossi, 69, was charged with obstructing traffic and disorderly conduct after he refused to relocate his stand during an enforcement sweep. The area outside the Met has been a lucrative location for the Parks...

Bacon Agonistes

The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

By John Richardson Francis Bacon: A Centenary Exhibition an exhibition at Tate Britain, London, September 11, 2008–January 4, 2009, the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, February 3–April 19, 2009, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, May 20–August 16, 2009 To celebrate Francis Bacon's centenary in 2009, Tate Britain mounted a retrospective exhibition that was subsequently...

Veteran vedor bust in Met beef

New York Post (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009

The hot-dog vendor who cost the city big bucks by setting up shop in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art was in hot water yesterday. The disabled vet, Dan Rossi, was busted for disorderly conduct and obstructing traffic as part of an enforceme...

The Moth at The Met with Kyp Malone, Jonathan Ames and Starlee Kine

The Fader Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

On Tuesday, December 15, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will celebrate the tradition of The Moth, a non-profit with undeniable dedication to narrative performance, with The Moth at the Met: American Stories. Storytellers will use the portraiture in two current exhibitions, Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans and American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, [...]

Tangerine Twist

Mrs. O (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

Image by Saul Loeb / Getty Images First Lady Mrs. O stands alongside Indian First Lady Gursharan Kaur as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrives in the East Room of the White House. Mrs. O wear a tangerine-hued brocade dress and coat by Isaac Mizrahi , from the designer's Pre-Fall 2009 collection. Click here to see a shorter jacket in the same fabric. Many will recall that Mrs. O wore another...

Natalia Vodianova Booked a Ton of Spring Campaigns; Prada Reportedly Booked an 18-Year-Old Newcomer

Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

• Natalia Vodianova 's spring-campaign bookings include Yves Saint Laurent , Givenchy , Stella McCartney , Guerlain, Etam lingerie, and Calvin Klein perfume. Busy lady! [ WWD ] • Prada reportedly signed 18-year-old model Rasa Zukauskaite for its spring campaign. [ Sassybella ] • Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Andrew Bolton says the Costume Institute's next exhibit, American Women...

DA Drops Charges Against Nude Muse

Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

Back in August photographer Zach Hyman brought one of his muses to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for some naked time. The 26-year-old model, Kathleen Neill, stripped down in the Arms and Armour exhibit, only to be arrested shortly after for public lewdness. Just a few days later she said : "I want people to have the freedom to express themselves. I want the city to drop the charges. I would...

Kathleen "KC" Neill, Zach Hyman's Nude Museum Model, Gets Public Lewdness Charges Dropped

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009

NEW YORK — 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 Neill...

• Court Drops Case in Nude Photo Shoot at NYC Museum - Artdaily

Local Landmarks on UES Barnes & Noble Mural

92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

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...

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Island Med Student (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

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 [...]

Exhibition: Body Parts at the Brooklyn

Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

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...

Retirement: Susan J. Allen

Egyptology News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

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

Get Inspired: Book Covers

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...

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Photos of The Spanish Prime Minister's Daughters with Obama

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...

Bar Refaeli: Costume Institute Gala Glamorous

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,