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Cut From the Same Cloth? An Impossible Conversation Between Prada and Schiaparelli on Fashion

Mary Orlin | Posted 05.10.2012

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Mary Orlin

These two designers are both Italian, but Schiaparelli worked in the 1930s to 1950s and Prada designs today. The exhibit plays up their similarities and contrasts, in both their clothing designs and in the imagined dialogue between the two women.

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The Line Is Drawn Between Rembrandt And Degas At The Met

Posted 02.27.2012

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Soaking in the work of the French Impressionist Edgar Degas is one breathtaking experience to behold, but to examine the artist alongside the great Du...

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The 'Ring' Cycle Ends, Disappoints

AP | MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 03.29.2012

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NEW YORK — Sometimes less is more, and sometimes it's just ... less. That was the mixed verdict as Robert Lepage brought his high-tech producti...

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What To Do This Weekend

Posted 01.20.2012

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Portlandia: A Conversation with Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Where: Paley Center of Media, 25 W. 52 Street, (212) 621-6800 When: Saturday, 1PM...

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Mallika Rao

The Met's Redheaded Stepchild Gets A Makeover

HuffingtonPost.com | Mallika Rao | Posted 01.20.2012

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It was quietly dismantled at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art by staff who didn't like it, shuttled around the country for years, and held hostag...

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Going for Baroque

Danielle de Niese | Posted 03.01.2012

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Danielle de Niese

This season the Metropolitan Opera is having a "Baroque Coming-Out Party" on New Year's Eve with the world premiere of The Enchanted Island.

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Veterans Arrested For Selling Hot Dogs Outside The Met

Posted 01.02.2012

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The NYPD arrested two military veterans after they refused to move their foodcarts from outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the city's most lucrat...

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Jaweed Kaleem

New York's Metropolitan Museum Of Art Opens Its Doors For Long-Awaited Islamic Art Exhibit

HuffingtonPost.com | Jaweed Kaleem | Posted 01.02.2012

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NEW YORK -- Standing in the grand entrance hall of the The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Tuesday, Navina Haidar shuffled between nervousness and glee ...

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The Show Must Go On

Susanne Mentzer | Posted 12.20.2011

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Susanne Mentzer

Some theaters, like the Met, have at least one or more covers for each solo role. My own Met debut in 1989 came when I was contracted to cover Anne Sofie von Otter for four performances (her debut) and then sing four of my own.

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Amy Lee

The Met Brings Opera To The Movies

HuffingtonPost.com | Amy Lee | Posted 10.29.2011

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Richard Nixon is watching ballet in Beijing with Chairman Mao as wife Pat Nixon looks on with her hands clasped to her face. A young girl is beaten un...

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PHOTOS: Richard Serra's Lighter Side

Posted 10.17.2011

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Richard Serra: The Drawings, organized by the Menil Collection in Houston at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is much more ephemeral than most of the c...

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Planning A Trip To The Big Apple? Read Our Guide To Family Vacations In New York City

The Huffington Post | Shellie Braeuner | Posted 10.12.2011

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Family vacations in New York City can be rewarding experiences or absolute disasters — it all depends on pretrip homework. To make planning easier, ...

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Three Tenors

Howard Kissel | Posted 06.07.2011

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Howard Kissel

In the unbelievable cornucopia of riches that is the New York classical music scene we had three recent examples of the latter sort of tenor -- all excellent.

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NYC On Edge: Three 'Suspicious Package' Incidents In One Day

Posted 05.25.2011

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Better vigilant than sorry. New York seemed to be on high alert Monday, as three separate 'suspicious package' incidents halted various arteries in ...

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Frick Collection Doesn't Frickin' Get It

Ashley Wren Collins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ashley Wren Collins

The Frick Collection does not admit children under the age of 10 (though it says nothing about admitting those under the age of two) and its young educational outreach programs are geared only to middle school students and older.

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FASHION AND OPERA: Managing the Met's Wardrobe

nytimes.com | ROBIN FINN | Posted 05.25.2011

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If a diva gains weight on the sly, it is Lesley C. Weston's duty to discreetly ensure that her costume expands in sync with her rib cage when she sing...

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David Koch To Add $10 Million Fountains To The Met

luxist.com | By Deidre Woollard (RSS Feed) May 4th 2010 at 9:01PM | Posted 05.25.2011

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Like the fountains at New York City's Lincoln Center? Then you'll want to keep an eye on the Metropolitan Museum of Art where philanthropic billionair...

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Forgotten American Women

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Henry Adams

Some exhibitions and their catalogs, such as Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall--An Artist's Country Estate, are all one could ever wish for. Wi...

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Disowned Picasso Painting Will Make US Debut In New York City

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — A painting disowned by Pablo Picasso is expected to have its U.S. debut in a major exhibit of his work at New York City's Metropolita...

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C. C. Wang's Children Battle Over Chinese Art Collection

nytimes.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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For decades, a shrewd Chinese �migr� in New York with a puff of silver hair dominated the rarefied market for ancient Chinese art. Going by the an...

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PHOTOS: King Tut's Grand Entrance In NYC

Posted 05.25.2011

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Annubis crossed the river this morning, arriving at the South Street Seaport by barge. A 25-foot statue of the Egyptian jackal-headed god is part of a...

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Whitney Museum In Talks To Lease Marcel Breuer Building To Met

Art+Auction: In the Air | Posted 05.25.2011

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When the Whitney Museum of American Art's board of trustees meets next Tuesday to formally vote to approve its $680 million expansion into the Meatpac...

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The Met's Roof Installation: Big Bambu By Starn Brothers

nytimes.com | CAROL VOGEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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From April 27 through Oct. 31 the twin artists Mike and Doug Starn will be creating a site-specific installation for the Metropolitan Museum of Art th...

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Met Cut 14% Of Staff, Lost $600 Million In Investments In Last Year

bloomberg.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art shed 14 percent of its staff in the year ending in June amid a record operating deficit. At least 250 employe...

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"The Actor," Picasso Painting, Torn By Woman At Metropolitan Museum Of Art

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — A Picasso painting damaged when a woman lost her balance and fell on the canvas last week will be repaired in time for an exhibition ...

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