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Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, reconstruction of marble finial in the form of a sphinx (detail), 2022. 3D print in polymethyl metacrylate, natural pigments in egg tempera, gilded copper, gilded tin, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung (Liebieghaus Polychromy Research Project), Frankfurt am Main; original: Greece, marble, circa 530 B.C. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Closing soon: Met’s Chroma, revealing colorful truth of ancient sculpture

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Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, reconstruction of marble finial in the form of a sphinx (detail), 2022. 3D print in polymethyl metacrylate, natural pigments in egg tempera, gilded copper, gilded tin, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung (Liebieghaus Polychromy Research Project), Frankfurt am Main; original: Greece, marble, circa 530 B.C. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, reconstruction of marble finial in the form of a sphinx (detail), 2022. 3D print in polymethyl metacrylate, natural pigments in egg tempera, gilded copper, gilded tin, Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung (Liebieghaus Polychromy Research Project), Frankfurt am Main; original: Greece, marble, circa 530 B.C. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

NEW YORK – Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture was once colorful, vibrantly painted, and richly adorned with detailed ornamentation. On view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art through March 26, Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color reveals the colorful backstory of polychromy — meaning “many colors” in Greek — and presents new discoveries of surviving ancient color on artworks in the Met’s world-class collection. Exploring the artistic practices and materials used in ancient polychromy, the exhibition highlights cutting-edge scientific methods used to identify ancient color and examines how color helped convey meaning in antiquity, and how ancient polychromy has been viewed and understood in later periods.

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Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890), ‘Wheat Field with Cypresses,’ June 1889. Oil on canvas, 28 7/8 by 36 3/4in. (73.2 by 93.4cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, purchase, the Annenberg Foundation gift, 1993 (1993.132)

The trees that please: Met devotes show to van Gogh’s Cypresses

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Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890), ‘Wheat Field with Cypresses,’ June 1889. Oil on canvas,28 7/8 by 36 3/4in. (73.2 by 93.4cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, purchase, the Annenberg Foundation gift, 1993 (1993.132)

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890), ‘Wheat Field with Cypresses,’ June 1889. Oil on canvas, 28 7/8 by 36 3/4in. (73.2 by 93.4cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, purchase, the Annenberg Foundation gift, 1993 (1993.132)

NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art has planned a groundbreaking exhibition of some 40 works by Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) that will be on view at the Met Fifth Avenue from May 22 through August 27. Van Gogh’s Cypresses will be the first show to focus on the unique vision the artist brought to bear on the towering trees — among the most famous in the history of art — affording an unprecedented perspective on a motif virtually synonymous with Van Gogh’s fiercely original power of expression.

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Martinus Rorbye (Danish, Drammen 1803–1848 Copenhagen), ‘View from the Citadel Ramparts in Copenhagen by Moonlight, 1839.’ Oil on canvas, 11 3/8 by 9 5/8in. (28.9 by 24.4cm) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2007 (2007.164.7) Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art

Met shows how 19th-century stresses sparked Danish Golden Age

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Martinus Rorbye (Danish, Drammen 1803–1848 Copenhagen), ‘View from the Citadel Ramparts in Copenhagen by Moonlight, 1839.’ Oil on canvas, 11 3/8 by 9 5/8in. (28.9 by 24.4cm) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2007 (2007.164.7) Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art

Martinus Rorbye (Danish, Drammen 1803–1848 Copenhagen), ‘View from the Citadel Ramparts in Copenhagen by Moonlight, 1839.’ Oil on canvas, 11 3/8 by 9 5/8in. (28.9 by 24.4cm) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2007 (2007.164.7) Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art

NEW YORK – Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art explores the period formerly known as the Danish Golden Age, a name that belies the economic and political hardships the dwindling Danish Kingdom experienced in the 19th century. The exhibition is on at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and will run through April 16.

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Portrait of Bindo Altoviti by Francesco Salviati, rendered on marble during the 16th century. The Met announced the receipt of the painting as a gift from the trust of Assadour “Aso” O. Tavitian. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Met gifted with monumental Salviati oil-on-marble portrait

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Portrait of Bindo Altoviti by Francesco Salviati, rendered on marble during the 16th century. The Met announced the receipt of the painting as a gift from the trust of Assadour “Aso” O. Tavitian. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of Bindo Altoviti by Francesco Salviati, rendered on marble during the 16th century. The Met announced the receipt of the painting as a gift from the trust of Assadour “Aso” O. Tavitian. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art has received a gift of an exceptional oil painting by celebrated Italian artist Francesco Salviati (1510–1563). Executed on a one-inch thick marble slab, the arresting portrait depicts Bindo Altoviti (1491–1557), a powerful Florentine banker and one of the most significant political opponents to the Medici rulers. The monumental work is the first painting on marble acquired by the Met. It is a gift from the trust of Assadour “Aso” O. Tavitian.

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Co-chairs announced for 2023 Met Ball honoring Karl Lagerfeld

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

NEW YORK – The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today the co-chairs for The Costume Institute Benefit to be held on May 1, 2023, in New York.

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Richard Avedon (American, 1923–2004). Outtake from ‘Andy Warhol and members of the Factory,’ October 9, 1969. Gelatin silver print, 8 by 10in. (20.3 by 25.4cm). The Richard Avedon Foundation © The Richard Avedon Foundation

Met show of Richard Avedon group portraits opens Jan. 19

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Richard Avedon (American, 1923–2004). Outtake from ‘Andy Warhol and members of the Factory,’ October 9, 1969. Gelatin silver print, 8 by 10in. (20.3 by 25.4cm). The Richard Avedon Foundation © The Richard Avedon Foundation

Richard Avedon (American, 1923–2004). Outtake from ‘Andy Warhol and members of the Factory,’ October 9, 1969. Gelatin silver print, 8 by 10in. (20.3 by 25.4cm). The Richard Avedon Foundation © The Richard Avedon Foundation

NEW YORK – To celebrate the centennial of Richard Avedon’s birth in 1923, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a selection of the photographer’s most innovative group portraits in the exhibition Richard Avedon: MURALS, opening Thursday, January 19 and continuing through October 1. Although Avedon first earned his reputation as a fashion photographer in the late 1940s, his greatest achievement was his stunning reinvention of the photographic portrait. Focused on the short period between 1969 and 1971, this exhibition will explore a critical juncture in the artist’s career, when, after a hiatus from portraiture, he began working with a new camera and a new sense of scale. The exhibition will be organized around three monumental photomurals in the Met collection (the largest measures nearly 10 by 35ft) that depict the era’s preeminent artists, activists, and politicians. Uniting the murals with session outtakes and contemporaneous projects, the exhibition will track Avedon’s evolving approach to group portraiture, through which he transformed the conventions of the genre.

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Bleriot Model XI Monoplane weathervane, circa 1909-13, copper with traces of original gilding; airplane: 57 ¼ by 55 by 10in. (145.4 by 139.7 by 25.4cm), directionals: 38 5/8 by 38 ½ by 15 ¾in. (98.1 by 97.8 by 40cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Michael and Patricia Del Castello. Photo credit: Michael Kent Lynberg.

Met receives gift of American aviation-themed weathervane

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Bleriot Model XI Monoplane weathervane, circa 1909-13, copper with traces of original gilding; airplane: 57 ¼ by 55 by 10in. (145.4 by 139.7 by 25.4cm), directionals: 38 5/8 by 38 ½ by 15 ¾in. (98.1 by 97.8 by 40cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Michael and Patricia Del Castello. Photo credit: Michael Kent Lynberg.

Bleriot Model XI Monoplane weathervane, circa 1909-13, copper with traces of original gilding; airplane: 57 ¼ by 55 by 10in. (145.4 by 139.7 by 25.4cm), directionals: 38 5/8 by 38 ½ by 15 ¾in. (98.1 by 97.8 by 40cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, gift of Michael and Patricia Del Castello. Photo credit: Michael Kent Lynberg.

NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on September 23 that it has received a gift of a rare American weathervane from Michael and Patricia Del Castello. Produced by an unidentified maker between 1909 and 1913, it was likely commissioned for the Poland Spring House in Poland Spring, Maine, where it was installed on its rooftop by 1914 and remained on view until 1973. The commanding and distinctive weathervane joins the Met’s growing collection of American vernacular sculpture and will be on view in Gallery 732 in the American Wing starting September 29.

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Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497-98–1543 London), ‘Henry VIII,’ circa 1537. Oil on wood, 11 by 7 7/8in. (28 by 20cm). Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Image © Museo Nacional Thyssen- Bornemisza, Madrid

Splendors of Tudor-era England come to the Met in October

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Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497-98–1543 London), ‘Henry VIII,’ circa 1537. Oil on wood, 11 by 7 7/8in. (28 by 20cm). Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. Image © Museo Nacional Thyssen- Bornemisza, Madrid

Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497-98–1543 London), ‘Henry VIII,’circa 1537.Oil on wood, 11 by 7 7/8in.(28 by 20cm).Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.Image ©Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

NEW YORK – From King Henry VII’s seizure of the throne in 1485 to the death of his granddaughter Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, England’s Tudor monarchs used art to legitimize and glorify their tumultuous reigns. On view at the Met from October 10 to January 8, 2023, The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England will trace the transformation of the arts under their rule through more than 100 objects — including iconic portraits, spectacular tapestries, manuscripts, sculpture and armor — from both the museum collection and international lenders.

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Max Hollein will be the Met’s next CEO, effective July 2023

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s board of trustees has selected its current museum director, Max Hollein, to succeed Daniel H. Weiss as CEO in July 2023. Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo credit Eileen Travell

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s board of trustees has selected its current museum director, Max Hollein, to succeed Daniel H. Weiss as CEO in July 2023. Image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo credit Eileen Travell

NEW YORK — The board of trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art has voted that Max Hollein, who is presently serving as Marina Kellen French director of the museum, will add to his title Chief Executive Officer effective July 1, 2023, when current Met President and CEO Daniel H. Weiss steps down as previously announced. At that time, the director and CEO will be responsible for the overall leadership of the museum.

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Dan Weiss, president and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, photographed in January 2018. On June 28, he announced he would step down from his roles in June 2023. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Valdel10. Shared under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

Met President and CEO Daniel Weiss to step down in June 2023

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Dan Weiss, president and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, photographed in January 2018. On June 28, he announced he would step down from his roles in June 2023. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Valdel10. Shared under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

Daniel Weiss, president and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, photographed in January 2018. On June 28, 2022 he announced he will step down from his roles in June 2023. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, photo credit Valdel10. Shared under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

NEW YORK — Daniel H. Weiss, president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 2015 and its president and CEO since 2017, announced June 28 that he intends to step down in June 2023. An accomplished scholar and author who holds a PhD in art history and an MBA, Weiss was recruited to lead the Met in 2015 after tenures as a college president, university dean and a professor of art history. He led the museum through a series of historic challenges — financial, infrastructure and societal — from which the museum has emerged as a stronger institution with its place intact among the most ambitious, programmatically robust and financially strong cultural institutions in the world.

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