
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Spectrum presents The Moth at The Met: American Stories
Tuesday, December 15, 2009, 6:30 p.m.
The Moth, founded in 1997, is a not-for-profit organization
devoted to storytelling. Every show has a different theme and features
storytellers who each tell a ten-minute first-person story.
This evening of storytelling, hosted by ...author Jonathan Ames, is
inspired by the current special exhibitions "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915" and "Looking In: Robert Frank’s The Americans," and will explore personal American stories. Storytellers include TV On The Radio's Kyp Malone, This American Life contributor Starlee Kine, artist Antony Zito, and Moth StorySLAM winner Peter Aguero.
Purchase tickets online: http://www.metmuseum.org/tickets/calenda r/view.asp?id=2960
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The Moth, founded in 1997, is a not-for-profit organization devoted to storytelling. Every show has a different theme and features storytellers who each tell a ten-minute first-person story. This evening ...
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Friday, November 20
4:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m.
Find Yourself at the Met—Films for a Fall Evening
(Ages 15–18)
In a series of short screenings related to the Museum's collection, teens look at art and artists on film.
To register, call 212–650–2832 or email teenprograms@metmuseum.org. Enrollment is limited. Classes meet in the Uris... Center for Education, located on the ground floor, near the 81st Street entrance.
Free with Museum admission
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Lesley Gore, Friday, November 20, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Student tickets are available at the Box Office. Includes admission into the museum.
Purchase tickets online: http://www.metmuseum.org/tickets/calenda r/view.asp?id=2808
Location:Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Time:Friday, 20 November 2009 19:00

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The special exhibition “American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915” includes several paintings that depict sports and games—some innocent, some not. Visit the exhibition blog to read more.
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Fall is an ideal time for American sports fans, as professional baseball, basketball, football, and hockey seasons overlap. It’s no secret that Americans love

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Watteau and Words: A Reading of French Poetry by Philippe de Montebello - Purchase tickets online: http://www.metmuseum.org/tickets/calenda r/view.asp?id=2892
Student tickets are available at the Box Office. Includes admission into the museum.
Location: Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Time:Thursday, 19 November 2009 18:00

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Featured Artwork of the Day (http://www.metmuseum.org/feeds/artworkof theday.aspx).
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Eduard Gaertner (German, 1801–1877). Parochialstrasse in Berlin, 1831. Oil on canvas. 16 x 11 in. (40.6 x 27.9 cm). Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, and funds from various donors, by exchange, 2006 (2006.258).

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York "The Young Archer Attributed to Michelangelo" is now on view at the Met.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art will install for ten years in its Vélez Blanco Patio a marble sculpture Young Archer, attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti (Florence 1475–Rome 1564), as part of a special loan from the French Republic, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs. The Young Archer first e...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York "Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art" closes Sunday, November 15, 2009.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns some forty-five sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), the American Beaux-Arts sculptor who worked in New York, Paris, and Cornish, New Hampshire. The Museum’s collection fully represents the range of his oeuvre—from early cameos to innovative painterly...

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Featured Artwork of the Day (http://www.metmuseum.org/feeds/artworkof theday.aspx).
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Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, born 1962). Cemetery, 2002. Chromogenic print. 85.7 x 118.7 cm (33 3/4 x 46 3/4 in.). Purchase, Hideyuki Osawa Gift, 2003. 2003.301. Rights and Reproduction © Gabriel Orozco.

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"In addition to enhancing the themes of the exhibition, the loans allow
us to see our own works—old friends that we and our visitors already
love—in a new light."
See the "American Stories" exhibition blog to read more.
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American Stories features 103 outstanding paintings, including twenty-five canvases from the Met’s own collection, one of the finest and most comprehensive in

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Join The Apollo Circle, a Membership group for individuals in their
twenties and thirties, for an evening of dancing, cocktails, and sweet
and savory treats.
Location:The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Time:Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:00

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Featured Artwork of the Day (http://www.metmuseum.org/feeds/artworkof theday.aspx).
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Middle Bronze Age; 3rd–2nd millennium B.C.Central Asia, Bactria-Margiana. Copper alloy; H. 9.1 cm. Purchase, David L. Klein Jr. Memorial Foundation Inc. and Gift of Lester Wolfe, by exchange, 1984 (1984.4)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Reminder: Saturday, October 31 - Come and Celebrate the Day of the Dead!
Come and Celebrate the Day of the Dead!
Location:Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Time:Saturday, 31 October 2009 10:00

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art wants to inspire you to tell a story and speak from the heart, as Robert Frank did with The Americans, his masterpiece of street photography. So the Met is hosting a Flickr group, You Got Eyes, in conjunction with "Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans," an exhibition celebrating the 5...0th anniversary of the publication of The Americans. The exhibition runs from September 22, 2009, through January 3, 2010. For more information, including sponsorship credits, see the exhibition preview on the Met's website (http://tinyurl.com/klgc8e).
What is your story? How do you feel about the times we live in today? What is it about the world that weighs on you? What puts you at ease? Visit a city, park, museum, or any place you feel passionate about and document your journey with your camera. Choose a series of 5 to 10 photographs and add them to the You Got Eyes Flickr group pool.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art wants to inspire you to tell a story and speak from the heart, as Robert Frank did with The Americans, his masterpiece of street photography. So the Met is hosting this group pool, You Got Eyes, in conjunction with Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, an exhibitio...
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