Supporting the National Endowment for the Arts

I completely agree with this text wrote by Thomas P. Campbell, Director and chief executive of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, USA), and published in The New York Times on February, 22: “Four years ago, in a small warehouse in central China, a team of Chinese archaeologists […]

Old faces in new places

When a monument wakes up, you notice. It’s been more than 40 years since the Metropolitan Museum of Art rethought what many considered its ‘raison d’être’, its galleries of European paintings. The last reinstallation was in 1972 and encompassed a chronological span from Giotto to Picasso. Now become a change. […]

A Cosmopolitan Trove of Exotic Beauty

In 2003 the Islamic galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art closed for renovation, and one of the world’s premier collections of Islamic art more or less vanished into storage. As of November 1st 2011 the learning can go forward. The Met’s Islamic collection returns to view in what are […]