Ever wonder how art books are made? The Met's Publications team is here to show you! Follow along as we print the “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” exhibition catalogue. Get your copy of the book at The Met Store and don’t miss the Costume Institute exhibition on view through September 2, 2024.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, also known as The Met, presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in two iconic sites in New York City—The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online. Since its founding in 1870, The Met has aspired to be more than a treasury of rare and beautiful objects. We are committed to fostering a collaborative and respectful work environment with a staff as diverse as the audiences we engage. Our staff members are art lovers who are passionate about working toward a common goal: creating the most dynamic and inspiring art museum in the world. Mission: The Met’s mission is to collect, study, conserve, and present significant works of art across time and cultures in order to connect all people to creativity, knowledge, ideas, and one another. Every day, art comes alive in the Museum's galleries and through its exhibitions and events, revealing both new ideas and unexpected connections across time and across cultures. At The Met, every staff member lives by the core values of respect, inclusivity, collaboration, excellence, and integrity. If you share our community’s values, please apply to one of our exciting opportunities!
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- Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
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- 1,001-5,000 employees
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- New York, NY
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1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028, US
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The Cloisters Museum and Gardens
99 Margaret Corbin Drive, Fort Tryon Park
New York, NY 10040, US
Employees at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Frank J. Pannacchione - MCS, Inc.
Motivational Corporate Computer Training - MS Teams | Excel | SharePoint | Office 365 | Adobe | Soft Skills (since 1998)
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Lucian Simmons
Head of Provenance Research at Metropolitan Museum
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Amanda Riley
Chief Membership Officer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Love Ablan
Updates
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Read The New York Times' recent update on visitation to The Met. "All told, the Met attracted nearly 5.5 million to its main home on Fifth Avenue and to the Cloisters in the year ending June 30, the museum said. That is still short of 2019, when it attracted seven million people and was still operating a third location, the Met Breuer on Madison Avenue. But museum officials were pleased with the progress they have made. 'We are clearly back,” Max Hollein, the Met Museum’s director, said in an interview. 'We have a total attendance that is on the level we would like to see.'" https://met.org/4d6Zg5t
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What happens when our most intimate possessions end up in art museums? In Episode 4 of the #ImmaterialPodcast, we take a closer look at the threads of identity that bind us together. Quilter Loretta Pettway Bennett, and most of the other residents of Gee's Bend, Alabama, are the direct descendants of the enslaved people who worked the cotton plantation established by Joseph Gee in 1816. In 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. visited the isolated town and urged residents to take the ferry across the river to register to vote, but the neighboring town stopped the ferry in response. After organizing for a year to find a solution to this injustice, the people of Gee's Bend formed the Freedom Quilting Bee Cooperative. The Freedom Quilting Bee was a key step in helping the women of Gee’s Bend use their skills and artistry to build financial and social stability for themselves for a generation. Their quilts have been displayed in museums around the world. Hear from Gee’s Bend quilters and descendants, Marie Watt, and Met Textile Conservation. Listen now: met.org/46l7uVi
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LAST CHANCE—Experience these works in “Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” before it closes July 28. Explore the comprehensive and far-reaching ways Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the 1920s–40s in New York City’s Harlem and nationwide. Among the artworks on view, see major loans from the extensive collections of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, including Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Fisk University Galleries, Hampton University Art Museum, and Howard University Gallery of Art. Follow the link to learn more: https://met.org/3QPoYDt
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Ready for a break from the heat wave? Take a deep breath and enjoy the calming sounds of a summer rainstorm in The Met Cloisters Trie Garden. 🌧️ The flowery meadow familiar from so many medieval works of art is re-created in the Trie Cloister garden, where a multitude of plants blooms in different seasons on a ground bordered with periwinkles. The fragrant display is accompanied by the sound of running water from the central fountain, which is composed of late medieval and modern elements. Together with the chirping birds, butterflies, and bees, the plantings transform this delightful enclosure into a vivid display of the flora and fauna seen in tapestries of the Middle Ages.
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Meet Louisa Lam, Senior Security Guard at The Met 👋 Have you ever wondered how physical spaces influence art and our experience of it? Our security guards, who interact with visitors daily, have a unique understanding of how the Museum's spaces impact everyone. In Episode 3 of the #ImmaterialPodcast, we go behind the scenes with an architect, a security guard, a curator, and a conservator to explore to understand the hidden and complex ecosystem of The Met. Listen now: met.org/LS2E3
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We have Team USA on our minds! 🎆 Olympic and Paralympic athletes visited The Met to explore the ancient origins of Olympic games. Check out their journey through art history be sure to cheer on Team USA this summer! 📷 Alex Shibutani
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How do you dress a mannequin when the garment is transparent? Exhibition dresser, Benjamin Klemes shares how the team prepared this dress to go on display. For this incredible garment, designer Olivia Cheng tapped into the uncanny appeal of the swarm by covering a simple white silk organza dress with individual brooches made from jewel beetles sustainably harvested in Thailand from an orchid sanctuary that also provides Cheng with flowers for jewelry. As Cheng explains, “I’m in the business of reuse, and that means committing to the beautiful, the ugly, the nostalgic, and the somewhat-scary. Beetles are all of those things.” Straddling the line between integral decoration and jewelry, Cheng’s beetles reference both 19th-century Indian export embroidery and Brazilian jeweled ornaments. See this dress on view in “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” through September 2. #ReawakeningFashion 🪲 Dauphinette (American, founded 2018). Olivia Cheng (American, born 1998), designer. Dress, fall/winter 2022-23. Photography © Nick Knight, 2024.
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Today, in honor of Father’s Day, we explore the powerful bond between father and children through Winold Reiss's painting of Fred Fripp. Fripp's contemplative gaze contrasts with his daughters' outward focus, emphasizing the security of their father’s steadying embrace. Reiss met Fred Fripp when he traveled to South Carolina to portray the Gullah-speaking Black residents of St. Helena Island, whose ancestors were among the last enslaved West African people forcibly brought to the United States. This luminous triple portrait, with its triangular composition and gold leaf background reminiscent of Renaissance madonnas, celebrates the subject, Fred Fripp as a teacher, scholar, and parent. On loan to The Met from Fisk University, the painting "Fred Fripp, Graduate of Penn School, Teacher, with Carol and Evelyn" can be seen in the exhibition "The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism" through July 28. 🎨 Winold Reiss (American, 1886–1953), Fred Fripp, Graduate of Penn School, Teacher, with Carol and Evelyn, 1927. Mixed media on illustration board. Fisk University Fisk University Galleries
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Experience the artistic vision and legacy of Edward C. Moore, the creative force who led Tiffany & Co. to unparalleled originality and success during the second half of the 19th century. NOW ON VIEW—"Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co.' features more than 180 extraordinary examples from Moore's personal collection, which was donated to the Museum, alongside 70 magnificent silver objects designed and created at Tiffany & Co. under his direction. A defining figure in the history of American silver, Moore played a pivotal role in shaping the legendary Tiffany design aesthetic and the evolution of The Met’s collection. Visit the exhibition now through October 20. #MetCollectingInspiration.
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