Sep 26, 2022 | Art, Music, New York, News & Trending
The Met Opera season opens for 2022, with a lushly dark staging of a play written over 200 years ago. “Medea” by Luigi Cherubini and François-Benoît Hoffman premiered in Paris in 1797, and turned heads then. It’s based on a much older play, written in the 400s...
Jan 15, 2021 | Art, Gallery, New York, News & Trending
While the Metropolitan Museum of Art was able to reopen after several months of prudent closure during the spring and summer of 2020, they’ve done so with reduced capacity, limited hours, and reservation requirements that mean that not everyone who wishes to...
Oct 16, 2017 | News & Trending
America’s largest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is making its political opinion known. Following the news of America’s exit from the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the Met’s president and CEO, David H. Weiss,...
May 22, 2017 | News & Trending
We all know the work of Michelangelo. From David and the Pieta, those marble masterworks which marry white austerity to a luxury of sculpted detail, to the incredible visual opulence of the Sistine Chapel murals, his art is one of the first things we think of when we...
May 1, 2017 | Exhibitions
Adrián Villar Rojas, Argentinian artist and worldwide exhibitor, was exploring the Metropolitan Museum of Art when he was struck by the way that the museum, any museum, removes things from daily life and “freezes” them. “In some way or another, I wanted to...
