The New Orleans Museum of Art has announced the hire of Russell Lord as its new curator of photographs. Mr. Lord previously served in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's department of photography as a Jane and Morgan Whitney fellow. Read More
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has canceled loans to the Moscow Kremlin Museum of works by French fashion designer Paul Poiret, “in response to” Russia’s art embargo, Met spokesman Harold Holzer told The Observer today. "Paul Poiret – King of Fashion" is set to open at the Moscow museum on September 7 and was to Read More
Already 582,000 visitors have passed through the Alexander McQueen exhibit at the Met since it opened in early May, but as the show counts down to its final days, the otherworldly lines will most likely be longer than ever. The museum, however, would prefer that you think of it not as a wait, but Read More
The U.S.-Russia art wars are again center stage in Chabad v. Russian Federation, the case that triggered Russia’s current embargo on lending art to U.S. museums. In a decision issued Tuesday, the federal District Court in Washington, D.C. acknowledged that Russia’s fear that its art might be seized by Chabad, the Brooklyn-based Jewish Orthodox sect, Read More
Times may be tough for New York’s museums, but that isn’t stopping the Metropolitan Museum of Art from mounting a major loan exhibition later this year. On December 19, the museum opens “The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini,” a blockbuster that will include about 160 works from more than 40 museums around the world. Read More
While the Metropolitan Museum of Art's recent decision to raise its suggested ticket prices sparked a debate about the public's access to museums, the Met certainly seems to have no shortage of demand. Met administrators announced today that, during the fiscal year ending on June 30, 5.68 million had visited the museum, which Read More
Richard Serra is best known for his 50-ton steel Torqued Ellipses and site-specific sculptures, yet the intimate retrospective of his drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, organized by the Menil Collection and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, provides perhaps the most illuminating encounter yet with the Mick Jagger of American sculpture. With Read More
It seems high time that the Whitney and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, well, met.
The Whitney approved a $680 million expansion plan into the meatpacking district last spring, after years cramped in an overhanging Brutalist beast of a building on 75th Street. But there was a catch: Cosmetics heir Leonard Lauder apparently has a soft Read More
One of the many enjoyable things about some of Paul Cézanne's paintings is that they seem unfinished. They are manifestly slowly made, yet patches of bare canvas show through oil paint; the painted backgrounds don't quite meet the edge of the frame. Two series, the card players and the smokers, are the focus of a Read More
Jonathan and Elizabeth Tisch's donation to the Metropolitan Museum of Art will build more than a new Costume Institute Gallery-it could canonize a new set of fashion-design superstars.
Last week, the billionaire Tisches made a $10 million gift to the Met that will fund a 4,200-square-foot namesake gallery and state-of-the-art storage for the institute's Read More
Intellectuals, unite. This fall, the ideas and ideologies will be flying at New York museums. Here's a look at some of the more important, or interesting, lectures and readings coming up.
The Morgan Library & Museum
Reading Mark Twain
Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010, 6:30 p.m.
$30 for non-members
As part of its commemoration of Read More
Good work if you can get it.
The heads of the Met, the Natural History Museum and MoMA live in tax-free Manhattan housing, on their employers' dime. From The Times this morning:
In addition to her $877,000 compensation package, Ellen V. Futter, president of the American Museum of Natural History, lives rent free in a $5 million East Side Read More
There's nothing quite like gazing at an Impressionist exhibit to the mellow sound of "Mommmm, can we go yet?" Any parent who has tried to instill love of art and culture into children knows it can be a challenge. Luckily, many New York City museums have special programs aimed for children.
Any self-respecting art lover in New York is sure to visit the Met, but may overlook the M.T.A. "There are many people throughout the world who would be amazed; curators who take the subway are blown away," said Sandra Bloodworth, who has directed the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Arts for Transit program since 1996, adding murals Read More
Late hours, cocktails and music mark the summer art scene.
K2
Rubin Museum of Art
Friday Nights until late evening, ongoing
Named, rather modestly, for the second-tallest mountain in the world, the Rubin Museum of Art's weekly transformation from Eastern art museum to club lounge is remarkable because it's actually kind of cool. Read More
