- NAKED YOUTH: THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF BILL HENSON - Artforum
Just prior to the appearance of that catalogue, a permanent realignment had taken place in Henson’s work In the ’70s and early ’80s he was known for his black-and-white, mock-candid, quasi daguerreotype images of self-absorbed individuals lost in crowds or striking solitary expressive poses in gloom-shrouded voids In the mid-’80s he began to produce color photographs focused almost
- Met Reveals Design for New Modern and Contemporary Wing
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, has unveiled the design for its hotly anticipated modern and contemporary art wing
- the Met Breuer - Artforum
In 2011, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, just a few blocks northwest, announced that it would be stepping in to lease the old Whitney to display its collection of modern and contemporary art And when the newly rechristened Met Breuer opens later this month, visitors will be presented with a kind of living fossil, an architectural coelacanth: a museum building from another era that wasn’t
- Met Returns Looted Bronze Griffin Head to Greece
The Metropolitan Museum of Art on February 24 returned an ancient bronze griffin head thought to have been pilfered from a Greek museum in the 1930s
- Islamic Art: The Met’s Generous Embrace - Artforum
Islamic art began, developed and continues as the expression of a universal religious community in a politically unstable world Its ability to support the identity of that community without itself becoming politicized is a curious accomplishment In both China and the West, an initially religious art divided into secular and religious forms, and each form tended to become identified with the
- the new Islamic art galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Qa’a (reception room), Damascus, Syria, 1707 Installation view, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2011 ON NOVEMBER 1 OF LAST YEAR, after much anticipation and a series of celebratory events,…
- Met Museum of Art Will Repurpose Great Hall Store as Gallery
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will transform its great hall store into an 11,500-square-foot gallery for Costume Institute exhibitions
- Met’s US Visitor Numbers Surpass Pre-Pandemic Levels
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on July 24 revealed that it had welcomed 4 6 million domestic visitors and 900,000 international guests in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2024
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