Metropolitan Museum of Art
Visitors view Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi creation, painted on the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, during a preview of the annual Met's Roof Garden commission, in New York on May 13, 2013. Qureshi, who uses the nearly 8,000-square-foot open-air space as his canvas, depicts his emotional response to violence occurring in Pakistan and across the globe, by working areas with blood-like spilled and splattered red acrylic paint into patterns of lush ornamental leaves that evoke the luxuriant walled gardens that are ubiquitous in miniatures of the Mughal court and also echo the foliage of Central Park surrounding the Roof Garden. Qureshi is the first artist to create a work that is be painted directly onto the roof’s surface of the museum, encouraging visitors to walk on it as they view it.
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Punk at Metropolitan Museum of Art
giving an arm gesture usually reserved for drivers on the LIE. The final mannequin flips you the bird. In between, you've got garbage-bag gowns, graffiti'd urinals, flashing lights, raucous music. Wait, are we really at the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Read more »
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Gwyneth Paltrow blasts Met Gala; says she'll never return
actress Gwyneth Paltrow , one of the many celebrity guests at The Metropolitan Museum of Art 's annual Met Gala on Monday night, says she will be skipping the event in the future."I'm never going again," the " Iron Man 3" co-star told USA Today . "It was so Read more »
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Punk finds its place in hallowed halls of Met
-- Punk and high fashion can now share the same stage, and a new Costume Institute exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art , "Punk: Chaos to Culture," celebrates that influence.It's an enduring irony that probably makes punk's rebellious originators cringe Read more »
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'Sid and Nancy' and more punk influences in movies and on TV
The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art opening the exhibition "Punk: Chaos to Couture" May 9, perhaps it's time for someone to curate a retrospective on how punk was portrayed on TV and in the movies . Let's just say Hollywood 's attempts Read more »
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NY's Met acquires 17th c. work at Paris auction
-- The Metropolitan Museum of Art has acquired a French Old Master painting by Charles Le Brun at auction.The museum confirmed it purchased "The Sacrifice of Polyxena" at Christie's in Paris on Monday. The auction house said the 17th century work sold for Read more »
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Gucci’s Signature Loafer Turns 60
worn by generations of stylish and famous men—from Clark Gable to Matt Damon—and has even been inducted into the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s permanent collection. In honor of the shoe’s 60th anniversary, Gucci has reissued its most famed design for 2013 in 6:42 AM from Robb Report Read more »
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Is The Art Market A Bubble That's About To Burst? Maybe Not...
was in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art today (a frequent rainy weekend destination of mine) and while walking through the galleries mentally comparing a seemingly endless number of 16th century European masterpieces to the quality of work that's been 4:38 AM from Seeking Alpha Read more »
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New York, l'opera di Irman Qureshi al Metropolitan Museum: macchie di vernice color sangue sul tetto del museo (FOTO)
prima vista sembrerebbe un'enorme scena del crimine quella che occupa il pavimento del tetto del Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York. Invece è l'opera di Imran Qureshi, artista pachistano classe 1972 . Spruzzate violente di vernice color sangue ricoprono 3:14 AM from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Twilight time for Stewart, Pattinson?
Stewart attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit celebrating "PUNK: Chaos to Couture" on Monday May 6, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)AP2013 Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have called it quits after more 5/19/13 from FOX News Read more »
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An embarrassment
had been working itself into a tizzy about the theme for the 2013 Met Ball: punk. Designed to draw attention to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new exhibition “Punk: Chaos to Couture”, the Met's annual sartorial gala promised a frothy mess of leather and 5/19/13 from Economist Read more »
