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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In formation since 1870, the Metropolitan Museum's collection now contains more than two million works of art from all points of the compass, ancient through modern times. The Museum's collection of Old Master and nineteenth-century European paintings, one of the greatest such collections in existence, numbers ... Read more

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • 1000 Fifth Ave, New York, New York, 10028
  • Category: Museum
  • Prices: $20 suggested contribution, $10 students and seniors
  • Phone: 212-879-5500
  • Website: Official Website
  • Hours: Tue-Thu and Sun, 9:30am-5:15pm; Fri-Sat, 9:30am-8:45pm;
  • Directions: via Google Maps
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metmuseum: "Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art" has been extended through 8/15 http://is.gd/dRvmo

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metmuseum: Our related exhibition, "American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity," closes 8/15 http://is.gd/dRuf3

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metmuseum: Don't miss "American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection" at @brooklynmuseum It's closing Sunday, 8/1. Link: http://is.gd/dRtSK

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metmuseum: Don't eat the pictures, but do devour this essay on food and drink in European painting http://is.gd/dReCf

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metmuseum: RT @artlog Chris Al-Aswad, editor of Escape into Life & twitter extraordinaire @escapeintolife passed away. Tributes: http://cot.ag/cPSMCS

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metmuseum: Free screening of The Mystery of Picasso (1955). The film documents the artist as he creates 20 works. Tomorrow at 2 http://is.gd/dPqXk

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metmuseum: Among the most celebrated masterpieces of African art, this pendant depicts Queen Mother Idia of Benin http://is.gd/dPpXh #ArtWednesday

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metmuseum: Wonderful new video of Director Thomas Campbell touring The Cloisters with Curator Peter Barnet http://is.gd/dP4io

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metmuseum: Cigarette http://is.gd/dONYk is an example of Duchamp's ability to render an everyday object mysterious and unsettling

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metmuseum: Happy birthday to the Marcel Duchamp, aptly described by Willem de Kooning as a one-man movement. Essay: http://is.gd/dOKEI

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metmuseum: Thanks! RT @escapeintolife Fantastic resource: The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History 1400-1600 AD round the world: http://cot.ag/a08mBr

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metmuseum: King Henry VIII, an avid amateur musician, owned 76 recorders. Learn about this instrument's rich history http://is.gd/dMKTQ

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metmuseum: Please note that the Roof Garden will be closed tomorrow, 7/27, for scheduled maintenance of Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú. (LR)

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metmuseum: Harry Burton's photographs are among the great treasures of the Department of Egyptian Art http://tinyurl.com/37tq449 #MuseumFactMonday (LR)

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metmuseum: Happy Birthday to George Grosz, whose works often depicted the modern city as a hellish, jostling place. http://tinyurl.com/2bojy5k (LR)

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metmuseum: RT @SFMOMA "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco" M. Twain @MuseumModernArt @metmuseum @guggenheim @brooklynmuseum

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metmuseum: Queen's Brian May & historian Elena Vidal will discuss their book on stereographer T. R. Williams this Friday. Tickets: http://is.gd/dCjb7

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metmuseum: Despite the bright lighting and the warm, even garish, colors, Hopper's Tables for Ladies is not particularly festive http://is.gd/dCcAc

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metmuseum: "My aim was to try to give the sense of an isolated & lonely office interior," said Hopper of his Office in a Small City http://is.gd/dCc3w

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metmuseum: Happy birthday to Edward Hopper, a quiet force in American art for 40 years. Essay: http://is.gd/dCbPJ

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