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Featured Artwork of the Day (http://www.metmuseum.org/feeds/artworkof theday.aspx).
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Eduard Gaertner (German, 1801–1877). Parochialstrasse in Berlin, 1831. Oil on canvas. 16 x 11 in. (40.6 x 27.9 cm). Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, and funds from various donors, by exchange, 2006 (2006.258).

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York "The Young Archer Attributed to Michelangelo" is now on view at the Met.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art will install for ten years in its Vélez Blanco Patio a marble sculpture Young Archer, attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti (Florence 1475–Rome 1564), as part of a special loan from the French Republic, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. The Young Archer first e...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York "Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art" closes Sunday, November 15, 2009.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns some forty-five sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), the American Beaux-Arts sculptor who worked in New York, Paris, and Cornish, New Hampshire. The Museum’s collection fully represents the range of his oeuvre—from early cameos to innovative painterly...

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Featured Artwork of the Day (http://www.metmuseum.org/feeds/artworkof theday.aspx).
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Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, born 1962). Cemetery, 2002. Chromogenic print. 85.7 x 118.7 cm (33 3/4 x 46 3/4 in.). Purchase, Hideyuki Osawa Gift, 2003. 2003.301. Rights and Reproduction © Gabriel Orozco.

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"In addition to enhancing the themes of the exhibition, the loans allow
us to see our own works—old friends that we and our visitors already
love—in a new light."
See the "American Stories" exhibition blog to read more.
Source: blog.metmuseum.org
American Stories features 103 outstanding paintings, including twenty-five canvases from the Met’s own collection, one of the finest and most comprehensive in

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Join The Apollo Circle, a Membership group for individuals in their
twenties and thirties, for an evening of dancing, cocktails, and sweet
and savory treats.
Location:The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Time:9:00PM Thursday, November 12th

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Middle Bronze Age; 3rd–2nd millennium B.C.Central Asia, Bactria-Margiana. Copper alloy; H. 9.1 cm. Purchase, David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundation Inc. and Gift of Lester Wolfe, by exchange, 1984 (1984.4)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Reminder: Saturday, October 31 - Come and Celebrate the Day of the Dead!
Come and Celebrate the Day of the Dead!
Location:Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Time:10:00AM Saturday, October 31st

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art wants to inspire you to tell a story and speak from the heart, as Robert Frank did with The Americans, his masterpiece of street photography. So the Met is hosting a Flickr group, You Got Eyes, in conjunction with "Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans," an exhibition celebrating the 5...0th anniversary of the publication of The Americans. The exhibition runs from September 22, 2009, through January 3, 2010. For more information, including sponsorship credits, see the exhibition preview on the Met's website (http://tinyurl.com/klgc8e).
What is your story? How do you feel about the times we live in today? What is it about the world that weighs on you? What puts you at ease? Visit a city, park, museum, or any place you feel passionate about and document your journey with your camera. Choose a series of 5 to 10 photographs and add them to the You Got Eyes Flickr group pool.Read More
What is your story? How do you feel about the times we live in today? What is it about the world that weighs on you? What puts you at ease? Visit a city, park, museum, or any place you feel passionate about and document your journey with your camera. Choose a series of 5 to 10 photographs and add them to the You Got Eyes Flickr group pool.Read More
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art wants to inspire you to tell a story and speak from the heart, as Robert Frank did with The Americans, his masterpiece of street photography. So the Met is hosting this group pool, You Got Eyes, in conjunction with Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, an exhibitio...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Featured Artwork of the Day (http://www.metmuseum.org/feeds/artworkof theday.aspx).
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Unidentified Artist, late 14th–early 15th century. Man Sleeping on a Bamboo Couch. China, Yuan (1279–1368)–Ming dynasty, (1368–1644). Album leaf; ink and color on silk. 10 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. (26 x 29.2 cm). From the Collection of A. W. Bahr, Purchase, Fletcher Fund, 1947. 47.18.147.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York "Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868" is on view at the Met through Januray 10, 2010
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Dō-Maru Gusoku Armor with Black Lacing and Three-Branched Deerhorn Helmet. Momoyama period, late 16th century. Iron, lacquer, leather, wood, papier-mâché, and silk; H. of helmet bowl: 7 in. (17.8 cm); H. of cuirass: 15 3/8 in. (39 cm). Private collection. Important Cultural Property

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Read about the planning of "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915" on the exhibition blog.
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The American Stories exhibition is the product of several years of preparation, during which the curators planned the exhibition's scope and narrative,

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York "Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799)" is on view at the Met through January 10, 2010.
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Luo Ping was one of the most versatile, original, and celebrated artists in eighteenth-century China. The youngest of the so-called Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, he was a fiercely independent artist whose works—including portraits, landscapes, and flower paintings—deeply influenced the course of lat...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Explore the exhibition "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915" through our special online feature. The exhibition is on view through January 24, 2010.
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The exhibition is organized by H. Barbara Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, and Carrie Rebora Barratt, Associate Director for Collections and Administration, both ...

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"Pablo Bronstein at the Met" is on view at the Met through February 21, 2010. http://www.metmuseum.org/special/se_even t.asp?OccurrenceId=%7BE13FC5D1-A9D4-4DBD -9AA5-338FB3FB2814%7D
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For this exhibition, Pablo Bronstein (b. 1977) will create two new bodies of work addressing the nature of the museum. Several large ink drawings will portray a mythical history of the Metropolitan Museum, imagining the building under construction and giant artworks being transported or installed. R...


















