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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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Ball gown, Marguery Bolhagen (American, 1920–2021), circa 1961; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr., 1966 (2009.300.2556a, b). The Richard and Gloria Manney John Henry Belter Rococo Revival Parlor, circa 1850, Gift of Sirio D. Molteni and Rita M. Pooler, 1965 (Inst.65.4). Photograph © Dario Calmese, 2021.

Eight film directors contribute to Costume Institute’s Spring 2022 show

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Ball gown, Marguery Bolhagen (American, 1920–2021), ca. 1961; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr., 1966 (2009.300.2556a, b). The Richard and Gloria Manney John Henry Belter Rococo Revival Parlor, ca. 1850, Gift of Sirio D. Molteni and Rita M. Pooler, 1965 (Inst.65.4). Photo © Dario Calmese, 2021.

Ball gown, Marguery Bolhagen (American, 1920–2021), circa 1961; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Jr., 1966 (2009.300.2556a, b). The Richard and Gloria Manney John Henry Belter Rococo Revival Parlor, circa 1850, Gift of Sirio D. Molteni and Rita M. Pooler, 1965 (Inst.65.4). Photograph © Dario Calmese, 2021.

NEW YORK – The Costume Institute’s 2022 spring exhibition, In America: An Anthology of Fashion — the second of a two-part presentation — will explore the foundations of American fashion through a series of sartorial displays featuring individual designers and dressmakers who worked in the United States from the 19th to the mid-late 20th century. In America: An Anthology of Fashion will open on May 7 and close on September 5. In celebration of its debut, The Costume Institute Benefit (also known as The Met Gala™) will coincide with the opening date of the show. The benefit provides The Costume Institute with its primary source of annual funding for exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, operations and capital improvements.

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Attributed to Gian Marco Cavalli (Italian, ca. 1454–after 1508, activity documented 1475–1508). ‘Mars, Venus and Cupid with Vulcan at his Forge (The Mantuan Roundel),’ ca. 1500. Parcel-gilt bronze with silver inlay. Integrally cast gilt frame with suspension loop. Diameter: 16 9/16in (42cm); Depth: 11/16in (1.7cm); Height with suspension loop: 18 3/8in (46.7cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Isaacson-Draper Fund, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions Fund, 2021 Benefit Fund, Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund, Alejandro Santo Domingo, Michel David-Weill, David T. Schiff, Annette de la Renta, Mark Fisch, the Hon. Kimba Wood and Frank Richardson, Denise and Andrew Saul, Beatrice Stern, Wrightsman Fellows, and members of the Acquisitions Committee Gifts, 2022 (2022.6)

Met acquires important Cavalli Renaissance bronze relief

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Attributed to Gian Marco Cavalli (Italian, ca. 1454–after 1508, activity documented 1475–1508). ‘Mars, Venus and Cupid with Vulcan at his Forge (The Mantuan Roundel),’ ca. 1500. Parcel-gilt bronze with silver inlay. Integrally cast gilt frame with suspension loop. Diameter: 16 9/16in (42cm); Depth: 11/16in (1.7cm); Height with suspension loop: 18 3/8in (46.7cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Isaacson-Draper Fund, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions Fund, 2021 Benefit Fund, Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund, Alejandro Santo Domingo, Michel David-Weill, David T. Schiff, Annette de la Renta, Mark Fisch, the Hon. Kimba Wood and Frank Richardson, Denise and Andrew Saul, Beatrice Stern, Wrightsman Fellows, and members of the Acquisitions Committee Gifts, 2022 (2022.6)

Attributed to Gian Marco Cavalli (Italian, circa 1454–after 1508, activity documented 1475–1508), ‘Mars, Venus and Cupid with Vulcan at his Forge (The Mantuan Roundel),’ circa 1500. Parcel-gilt bronze with silver inlay. Integrally cast gilt frame with suspension loop. Diameter: 16 9/16in (42cm); Depth: 11/16in (1.7cm); Height with suspension loop: 18 3/8in (46.7cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, The Isaacson-Draper Fund, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions Fund, 2021 Benefit Fund, Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Acquisitions Endowment Fund, Alejandro Santo Domingo, Michel David-Weill, David T. Schiff, Annette de la Renta, Mark Fisch, the Hon. Kimba Wood and Frank Richardson, Denise and Andrew Saul, Beatrice Stern, Wrightsman Fellows, and members of the Acquisitions Committee Gifts, 2022 (2022.6)

NEW YORK — The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced it has acquired an extremely rare bronze relief attributed to Gian Marco Cavalli, an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, print engraver and medalist who worked for the Gonzaga court in Mantua. Created around 1500, it is both the largest and one of the most technically sophisticated examples of a bronze roundel known from the early Renaissance. Lavishly embellished with gilding and silver inlay, the beautifully rendered configuration shows four figures from Roman mythology and provides new insights into the experimentation and impeccable craftsmanship that are the hallmarks of early north Italian bronzes.

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