Art
The Ambiguity of Films Left Unfinished
An unfinished film can be any number of things.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art
The Praise and Prejudices Vigée Le Brun Faced in Her Exceptional 18th-Century Career
The daughter of a pastelist and a hairdresser, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842) painted and befriended Marie Antoinette, escaped the horrors of the French Revolution, and forged a career as one of the 18th-century’s greatest portraitists.
Art
Never Mind the Bollocks, It’s the Met’s Breuer Now
I realize that I’m coming late to the party with Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, one of the three debut exhibitions of the Met Breuer, and I have little to add to the conversation about the fundamental problem with the show.
Art
We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes: Manhattan’s Psycho Summer
New York City is creeping towards a psycho kind of summer.
Art
The Mug Shot’s Origins in Debunked 19th-Century Science
French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon believed each person's physical measurements were as distinct as their fingerprints, and devised the first modern mug shots as part of his classification system in the 19th century.
Art
The Met Breuer Traces the Unfinished to the Deliberately Incomplete in Western Art
At a press preview earlier this month, Sheena Wagstaff, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s chairwoman for modern and contemporary art, said that “arguably only the Met” could put on a show like Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible.
Announcement
Get a First Look at the New Met Breuer
At this third and newest location of The Met, you can experience modern and contemporary art like never before: through the lens of The Met’s five thousand years of art from every corner of the globe.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6NjE4MjgsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjozNzE3MzcsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJja
Art
Walk the Eight Blocks from the Met to the Met Breuer, Accompanied by Soundscapes
John Luther Adams's "Soundwalk 9:09" is a composition that's only complete once you listen to it on the noisy New York City streets.
Art
The Metropolitan Museum Is Still Very Eurocentric and Conservative
If you thought the Eurocentric gods may have been toppled from their comfortable perches at the top of Mt. Met, you'll be sorely disappointed.
Art
The Bawdy History of Medieval Playing Cards
Playing cards arrived in Europe from Asia sometime in the 14th century, and by 1367 they had their first citywide ban in Bern, Switzerland.
In Brief
Metropolitan Museum’s Admission Now “Suggested” Rather Than “Recommended”
Since 1893, admission to New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has been as little as a penny.
Opinion
The Meh-tropolitan Museum of Art's Rebranding
It looks like THE MET has made a really unfortunate mistake not only on the logo, but on the entire surrounding brand system.