Ruben C. Cordova examines three phases in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s practice of deaccessioning art from its collection.
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Early this year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art changed its admission fees to a complicated mess, but mainly it started a mandatory fee for non-New Yorkers, instead of its longtime…
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At a press conference earlier this week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York announced that this spring, the institution will begin charging out-of-towners a mandatory admission fee. Set to…
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New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art offers a program called The Museum Workout, which it describes as “part gallery tour, part dance performance, part workout.” Choreographed by Monica Bill Barnes…
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"One dealer said it was a cry for help that they were exhibiting at NADA."
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Anyone who has visited New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art knows that it is impossibly to see everything in the museum in a week, let alone in a single day. When wandering…
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It was almost a year ago when Josef Helfenstein announced his resignation as director of Houston’s Menil Collection to accept a position in Switzerland. Now, the Menil’s board president Janet…
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For the second time today we report on the Metropolitan Museum of Art, only unlike the first post, this item brings you good tidings of great joy. The Met began uploading…
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According to the New York Post, a Manhattan man is suing the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the paintings on display that depict Jesus Christ as an “Aryan” male. Per…
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On Saturday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the appointment of Kelly Baum as the new curator of the department of post-war and contemporary art. Houstonians may remember Kelly Baum…
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Walter Liedtke, longtime curator of European paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was one of six victims of the crash of a commuter train in suburban New York City…
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art became the last of the major New York museums to jump on the dedicated-app wagon. While the museum has been dabbling in digital for a…
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that it will release 400,000 digital images online, free to access for non-commercial use, without permission from the museum and without a fee.…
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A charming show of wallpaper at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston pairs historic wallpapers with contemporary examples that slyly riff on traditional patterns.
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Interview: Stephanie Barron, Curator of “Ken Price Sculpture” at the Nasher
by Betsy Lewisby Betsy LewisAs senior curator of modern art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Stephanie Barron catalyzed the Nasher Sculpture Center’s current exhibition, Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective.…
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is being sued by two of its members who claim that the museum intentionally makes it difficult to understand that the $25…
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On Friday, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art began began putting 600 catalogs, journals and museum bulletins, 368 of them out-of-print, online. Searchable by title, keyword, publication type, theme or…
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MFAH director Gary Tinterow’s old Metropolitan Museum of Art connections, and the deep pockets of his new institution are paying off for the Prado: yesterday the NY Times announced that…