Key	Imgs	Short Description
2008_NY_Met_Art_Eur19P	346	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Painting
2011_NY_Met_Art_Eur19P	155	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Painting
2008_NY_Met_Art_Eur19S	15	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Sculpture
2011_NY_Met_Art_Eur19S	16	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- 19th- and Early 20th-Century European Sculpture
2008_NY_Met_Art_AOA	68	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
2011_NY_Met_Art_ASDA	123	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- American Sculpture and Decorative Arts
2008_NY_Met_Art_Amer	56	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- American Wing Most of this collection was closed for renovation when I was there including "Washington Crossing the Delaware"
2011_NY_Met_Art_Amer	16	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- American Wing I got the dates wrong. The American section still hadn't reopened.
2016_NY_Met_Art_Amer	533	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- American Wing
2008_NY_Met_Art_Arms	23	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Arms and Armor
2011_NY_Met_Art_Arms	2	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Arms and Armor
2008_NY_Met_Art_Asia	80	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Asian Art Including Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Southeast Asian
2008_NY_Met_Art_Cont	1	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Contemporary Art
2011_NY_Met_Art_Cont	8	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Contemporary Art
2008_NY_Met_Art_Egypt	153	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Egyptian Art
2011_NY_Met_Art_Egypt	101	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Egyptian Art
2008_NY_Met_Art_ESDA	166	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
2011_NY_Met_Art_ESDA	156	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
2016_NY_Met_Art_Franklin	18	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibit: Benjamin Franklin: Portraits by Duplessis Benjamin Franklin: Portraits by Duplessis AUGUST 22, 2016–NOVEMBER 28, 2016 Exhibition Overview This exhibition features several works depicting the brilliant writer, inventor, politician, patriot, and statesman Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), who has been the subject of hundreds of portraits. The...
2016_NY_Met_Art_Japan	35	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibit: Celebrating the Arts of Japan: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection Celebrating the Arts of Japan: The Mary Griggs Burke Collection OCTOBER 20, 2015–MAY 14, 2017 Exhibition Overview This tribute to a great collector reveals the distinctive features of Japanese art as viewed through the lens of 50 years of collecting: the sublime spirituality of Buddhist and Shinto...
2018_NY_Met_Art_Devotion	54	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibit: Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix At The Met Fifth Avenue July 17–November 12, 2018 Renowned as a giant of French Romantic painting, Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) was equally a dedicated and an innovative draftsman. Through a selection of more than one hundred...
2018_NY_Met_Art_Heavenly2	31	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibit: Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (Vatican) Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination May 10–October 8, 2018 The Costume Institute's spring 2018 exhibition—at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters—features a dialogue between fashion and medieval art from The Met collection to examine fashion's ongoing engagement with the...
2018_NY_Met_Art_Heavenly1	120	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibit: Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (Versace) Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination May 10–October 8, 2018 The Costume Institute's spring 2018 exhibition—at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters—features a dialogue between fashion and medieval art from The Met collection to examine fashion's ongoing engagement with the...
2019_NY_Met_Art_Praise	104	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibit: In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century—the Golden Age of Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer—have been a highlight of The Met collection since the Museum's founding purchase in 1871. This exhibition brings together some of the Museum's greatest...
2019_NY_Met_Art_Pursuit	42	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibit: In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection November 27, 2019–May 17, 2020 The Costume Institute's fall 2019 exhibition features promised gifts from Sandy Schreier, a pioneering collector, who over the course of more than half a century assembled one of the finest private fashion collections...
2019_NY_Met_Art_Jerome	13	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibit: Leonardo da Vinci's Saint Jerome Leonardo da Vinci's Saint Jerome July 15–October 6, 2019 To commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), The Met presents the artist’s painting Saint Jerome Praying in the Wilderness (begun around 1483), a special loan from the Vatican Museums. The...
2019_NY_Met_Art_Marvels	178	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibit: Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe November 25, 2019–March 1, 2020 Between 1550 and 1750, nearly every royal family in Europe assembled vast collections of valuable and entertaining objects. Such lavish public spending and display of precious metals was considered an...
2017_NY_Met_Art_Michel	241	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibit: Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman & Designer November 13, 2017–February 12, 2018 Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), a towering genius in the history of Western art, is the subject of this once-in-a-lifetime exhibition. During his long life, Michelangelo was celebrated for the excellence of his disegno,...
2018_NY_Met_Art_Nedjemankh	56	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibit: Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin At The Met Fifth Avenue July 20, 2018–April 21, 2019 A highly ornamented ancient Egyptian coffin from the first century B.C. is the centerpiece of this exhibition. The recently acquired work, which was inscribed for a high-ranking priest of the ram-headed god...
2019_NY_Met_Art_PlayLoud	255	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibit: Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll April 8, 2019 - October 1, 2019 For the first time, a major museum exhibition examines the instruments of rock and roll. One of the most important artistic movements of the twentieth century, rock and roll's seismic influence was felt across culture and...
2019_NY_Met_Art_Values	56	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibit: Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance August 7, 2017–February 28, 2021 Bringing together sixty-two masterpieces of sixteenth-century northern European art from The Met collection and one important loan, this exhibition revolves around questions of historical worth, exploring...
2017_NY_Met_Art_Rodin	67	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibit: Rodin at the Met Rodin at the Met September 16, 2017–January 15, 2018 On the centenary of the death of Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates its historic collection of the artist's work. Nearly 50 marbles, bronzes, plasters, and terracottas by Rodin, representing more than a century of...
2019_NY_Met_Art_Facade	11	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibit: The Facade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us The Facade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us September 9, 2019–June 8, 2020 The NewOnes, will free Us, by Kenyan-American artist Wangechi Mutu, inaugurates an annual commission to animate The Met's historic facade. Designed by Richard Morris Hunt and completed in 1902, the facade...
2019_NY_Met_Art_Last_Knight	138	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibit: The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I October 7, 2019–January 5, 2020 The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I examines the profound significance of European armor at the dawn of the Renaissance, through the lens of Emperor Maximilian I's (1459–1519)...
2019_NY_Met_Art_Etching	94	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibit: The Renaissance of Etching The Renaissance of Etching October 23, 2019–January 20, 2020 The history of printmaking has been punctuated by moments of great invention that have completely changed the course of the medium. The beginning of etching in Europe in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries—when the technique...
2017_NY_Met_Art_WWI	179	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Exhibit: World War I and the Visual Arts World War I and the Visual Arts July 31, 2017–January 7, 2018 Expressing a range of emotions, the selected works in this Bulletin powerfully evoke how artists responded to the world's first modern war. Organized to commemorate the anniversary of World War I, this exhibition focuses on the impact of...
2008_NY_Met_Art_Greek	127	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Greek and Roman Art
2008_NY_Met_Art_Luce	13	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Henry R. Luce Center
2008_NY_Met_Art_Med	51	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Medieval Art
2011_NY_Met_Art_Med	50	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Medieval Art
2008_NY_Met_Art_Misc	14	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Miscellaneous
2011_NY_Met_Art_Misc	5	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Miscellaneous
2016_NY_Met_Art_Misc	1	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Miscellaneous
2018_NY_Met_Art_Misc	3	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Miscellaneous
2019_NY_Met_Art_Misc	10	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Miscellaneous
2011_NY_Met_Art_Music	28	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Musical Instruments
2011_NY_Met_Art_Roof	8	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Roof Art
2008_NY_Met_Art_Roof	21	NY -- NYC -- Metropolitan Museum of Art -- Roof Art (Jeff Koons) Because of the crowds and non-standard guards, they gave up on the no photography rule up here during the Miracle Mile Festival which was nice. The roof also offers a vista of the city.
2019_NY_Met_Art_Monkman	21	NY -- NYC -- New-York Historical Society -- Exhibit: mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) (by Kent Monkman) The Great Hall Commission: Kent Monkman, mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People) December 19, 2019–April 9, 2020 Kent Monkman has been selected to create two monumental paintings for The Met's Great Hall. Monkman, born in Canada in 1965, is a Cree artist widely known for his provocative interventions into...
2018_NY_Cloisters	104	NY -- NYC -- The Met Cloisters
2018_NY_Cloisters_Heavenly	80	NY -- NYC -- The Met Cloisters -- Exhibit: Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination May 10–October 8, 2018 The Costume Institute's spring 2018 exhibition—at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters—features a dialogue between fashion and medieval art from The Met collection to examine fashion's ongoing engagement with the...

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