82nd Street is located on Fifth Avenue in New York, USA, far from the famous American Museum of Natural History. Covering an area of 6.5438+0.3 million square meters, it is one of the four largest art galleries in the world, which is as famous as the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris and the Leningrad Art Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia (also known as the Elmy Winter Palace transliteration Tashi Museum), with a collection of 3 million exhibits.
1866, J. Jay suggested the establishment of national museums and art galleries, and organized a committee to make preparations. 1870 65438+1October 3 1 The museum was formally established in the former site of Dodsworth Dance School, No.681Fifth Avenue, New York. 1880 moved to the present address.
With more and more collections, the museum has been expanded several times, and the whole building embodies different architectural styles in different periods, with a total area of 6.5438+0.3 million square meters. At present, there are more than 3.3 million art treasures in Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Far East and Near East, Greece and Rome, Europe, Africa, pre-Columbian America and New Guinea. Including buildings, sculptures, paintings, sketches, prints, photos, glassware, ceramics, textiles, metal products, furniture, ancient houses, weapons, armor, musical instruments and so on. There are 19 professional departments responsible for the collection, storage and display of various collections.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition hall of the museum has three floors, which are divided into clothing, Greek and Roman art, primitive art, weapons and armor, European sculpture and decorative art, American art, R. Lyman's collection, ancient Near East art, medieval art, Far East art, Islamic art,19th century European painting and sculpture, prints, sketches and photos, 20th century art, European painting, musical instruments and temporary art..
The clothing exhibition hall was developed from the original clothing art museum. 1946 merged into the Metropolitan Museum of Art and became an independent department. There are more than 17 ~ 10000 garments from all over the world in the 20th century. It also has a library and a design room for professional fashion design researchers.
198 1 In the spring of, Astor Courtyard, which was jointly built by China and the United States, was completed in the east wing and backyard of Wangshi Garden in Suzhou, China. In the courtyard of Xuan Ming Temple, China Ming Dynasty furniture is on display.
The Diandel Temple presented by the Egyptian government to the United States is displayed in the sackler Hall of the museum, which is the only ancient Egyptian temple in the world outside Egypt. It was officially opened to the public in September 1978.
T.J. Watson Library was founded in 1964. With a collection of more than 65,438+085,000 volumes, it is one of the most complete libraries in the world for graduate students, professional researchers and visiting scholars. The photo and slide library contains 290,000 slides, 250,000 black-and-white photos and 6,000 color photos to introduce the history of world art development. There are 6,543,800 pieces of various textiles in the textile research room, which is an ideal research place for fashion designers. The museum also has a print sketch research room, a youth museum, a bookstore, an audience center and a restaurant. The Museum regularly publishes The Journal of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, etc.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
This monastery is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which was founded in 1938. Located in Fort Tyrone Park in new york, it exhibits medieval art and architecture, including sculptures, murals, stained glass, clay tablets, tapestries with double-horned animal patterns, sacred boxes, communion cups, ivory products and metal products. There are monasteries, churches and gardens in the monastery. There are medieval concerts every day and concerts every week. The audience reaches 7 million people every year.
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According to the latest information, after spending $65,438+$0,000,000,000, the museum will reopen the 30,000-square-foot American wing exhibition hall in the near future, which is dedicated to the collection of American art works.
The collection of American art works in American Wings Exhibition Hall is one of the best and most comprehensive in the world. The opening ceremony of the museum was held on 20 12 16 10/6, and paintings, sculptures and decorative art works were displayed in the exhibition hall.
The newly opened American Wings Exhibition Hall will bring visitors a rich and fascinating physical examination of American art history, from18th century to 20th century.
In addition, according to the latest report of new york Travel Network, the Metropolitan Museum decided to transform the square in front of it to make its layout more humane. David H. Koch, an American philanthropist and the second richest man in new york, spent $60 million on the reconstruction project of metropolis museum square.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest museum in America. Built in 1880. As early as 1866, J. Jay suggested the establishment of national museums and art galleries, and organized a committee to make preparations. The whole museum is a building, covering an area of 8 hectares, which is19 of the Palace Museum in Beijing, but the exhibition area is very large, no less than 24 hectares, which is twice that of the Palace Museum. There are more than 200 galleries alone, with 365,000 pieces of various cultural relics and artworks. Located at 82nd Street, Fifth Avenue, Central Park, new york. 1870 65438+1October 3 1 The museum was formally established in the former site of Dodsworth Dance School, No.681Fifth Avenue, New York. 1880 moved to the present address.
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So far (2009), the museum has nine directors. The first is an Italian-born American army general-Cesnola. The current supervisor is Thomas Campbell, who took office in June 2009. He replaced Philippe de Montebello, the former director appointed by 1977. The former curator is from France and is the curator of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.
Cesnola
Cesnola (1870)
Cesnola [3]1832-1904) was the first director from 1879 to1904. Born into a military family, he participated in the Crimean War of the Austrian army. 1860, he moved to America. He founded the Military Academy in new york. During the American Civil War, he served as a colonel in the Army Cavalry and won the Medal of Courage. His military career ended at 1865. At that time, he was appointed consul in Cyprus. His love for archaeology prompted him to carry out excavation work in the local area, during which he excavated about 30 thousand cultural relics. These cultural relics are collected by the museum. From 65438 to 0879, he became the first director. This appointment has caused controversy, because many historians think that his excavation work is tantamount to plunder.
clark
Sir Caspar Clark of England (1846-191year) served as the second director from 1904 to 19 10. From 65438 to 0867, he first worked in the south kensington Museum in London. 1896, began to take the lead. 19 10 resigned for health reasons and returned to London.
Caspar Clark
Robinson
From 19 10 to 193 1, Edward G Robinson held the post of supervisor. He is an expert in archaeology and is good at ancient Greek cultural relics. 1885 became the cultural relic protector of Boston Museum of Art, 1902 was promoted to the director of the museum. He soon joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art as the processing director. 19 10 was promoted to supervisor.
Wenlock
Herbert wenlock is a famous Egyptian scientist. He is responsible for 1932 to 1939. He is in charge of the archaeological work of Egyptian art, especially the art of Thebes.
taylor
From 1940 to 1955, Francis Henry Taylor is in charge. Prior to that, he was the director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Worcester Museum of Art in Massachusetts. He gradually established his own idea that the museum is not only the accumulation of works of art, but also an academic institution or public service. After repeated efforts, he doubled the number of visitors to the museum to 2.3 million a year.
Lorimo
Luo was in charge from 1955 until his death in 1966. He contributed his whole life. 1927 After completing the research, he joined the Art Decoration Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and became an assistant. 1934 was promoted to director of medieval art museum. 1943, temporarily left the museum because of World War II, but helped the US military to preserve and study works of art stolen by the Nazi Party. 1949, returned to the museum as the abbot until 1955.
flatulency
Thomas hoven was born in 193 1. 1959 joined the department of medieval art museums after completing the doctoral program at Princeton University, and 1965 became the director of the department. 1966 Join the team of new york Mayor John Lindsay. However, when he received the news of Lo Jui-mo's death, he returned to the museum as a curator.
(Montebello) name
Philippe de monte de Montebello was the curator of the museum from 1977 to 2008. A Frenchman born in Paris is descended from the Duke of Montebello. 195 1 arrived in the United States with his family, 1955 naturalized in the United States. He is studying for a bachelor's degree at the French school in new york. 1958 graduated from Harvard university. Later, he received his doctorate from the Art College of new york University. 1963 joined the museum, became the assistant of the museum department, and was promoted to the quasi-curator of the European oil painting department. From 1969 to 1974, he was appointed as the curator of the Houston Art Museum. 1974, returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art as deputy curator, coordinating curator and education affairs. Under his leadership, the museum doubled, and the collection of European oil paintings in the19th century became richer.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum is backed by new york Central Park and has a quiet environment. However, American creativity is not reflected in architecture. High steps and huge colonnades are as rigid and monotonous as any standard museum. However, the content of the exhibition is rich and colorful, reflecting the American style with sufficient funds and high style. The entire 2460-year-old Egyptian tomb was relocated in the giant glass cover in the hall specially built by the museum, which is amazing and can be described as the treasure of the town hall. The Fashion Museum is also the best in the world, with a collection of/kloc-0.5 million pieces of national costumes from five continents in the past four centuries. With more and more collections, the museum has been expanded several times, and the whole building embodies different architectural styles in different periods, with a total area of 6.5438+0.3 million square meters.
The exhibition hall of the museum has three floors, which are divided into clothing, Greek and Roman art, primitive art, weapons and armor, European sculpture and decorative art, American art, R. Lyman's collection, ancient Near East art, medieval art, Far East art, Islamic art,19th century European painting and sculpture, prints, sketches and photos, 20th century art, European painting, musical instruments and temporary art..
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The clothing exhibition hall was developed from the original clothing art museum. 1946 merged into the Metropolitan Museum of Art and became an independent department. There are more than 17 ~ 10000 garments from all over the world in the 20th century. It also has a library and a design room for professional fashion design researchers.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a huge building located at 80th Street and 84th Street on Fifth Avenue in New York. It has five exhibition halls, including European painting, American painting, primitive art, medieval painting and Egyptian antiques. There are 248 showrooms in the museum, and tens of thousands of exhibits are exhibited all the year round, which is only the tip of the iceberg of the museum's total inventory-the number of all exhibits in the Metropolitan Museum has reached 3 million.
Zi Yuan courtyard
Metropolitan Museum of Art
198 1 In the spring of, Astor Courtyard, which was jointly built by China and the United States, was completed in the east wing and backyard of Wangshi Garden in Suzhou, China. In the courtyard of Xuan Ming Temple, China Ming Dynasty furniture is on display.
Dean del temple
The Diandel Temple presented by the Egyptian government to the United States is displayed in the sackler Hall of the museum, which is the only ancient Egyptian temple in the world outside Egypt. It was officially opened to the public in September 1978.
Watson library
Metropolitan Museum of Art
T.J. Watson Library was founded in 1964. With a collection of more than 65,438+085,000 volumes, it is one of the most complete libraries in the world for graduate students, professional researchers and visiting scholars. The photo and slide library contains 290,000 slides, 250,000 black-and-white photos and 6,000 color photos to introduce the history of world art development. There are 6,543,800 pieces of various textiles in the textile research room, which is an ideal research place for fashion designers. The museum also has a print sketch research room, a youth museum, a bookstore, an audience center and a restaurant. The Museum regularly publishes The Journal of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, etc. The museum exhibits works of art from ancient civilization to the present, including hundreds of masterpieces of world civilization. The museum displays not only paintings and sculptures, but also carpets, musical instruments, clothes and decorations.
monastery
This monastery is a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which was founded in 1938. Located in Fort Tyrone Park in new york, it exhibits medieval art and architecture, including sculptures, murals, stained glass, clay tablets, tapestries with double-horned animal patterns, sacred boxes, communion cups, ivory products and metal products. There are monasteries, churches and gardens in the monastery. There are medieval concerts every day and concerts every week. The audience reaches 7 million people every year.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
At present, there are more than 3.3 million art treasures in Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Far East and Near East, Greece and Rome, Europe, Africa, pre-Columbian America and New Guinea. Including buildings, sculptures, paintings, sketches, prints, photos, glassware, ceramics, textiles, metal products, furniture, ancient houses, weapons, armor, musical instruments and so on. There are 19 professional departments responsible for the collection, storage and display of various collections. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you can go to any exhibition hall you like according to the guide map. The representative artworks of Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Rome, European countries, Africa, Latin America and almost every marked place on earth, as well as the representative artworks of primitive society, slave society, European medieval stage, Asian dynasty and modern times, all have special exhibition halls in the Metropolitan Museum of Art..
In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, some people see the history of the exhibits themselves, some people see the history of the countries where the exhibits are located more easily, some people see their unique artistic value, some people see the artistic characteristics of their times from the exhibits, some people make pilgrimages for their ideals, some people inquire about their fame, some people regret not being able to see all the vast exhibits, and some people are grateful for being able to appreciate the precious collections. The museum will continue to stand, waiting for those who can benefit from it.
The museum exhibits works of art from ancient civilization to the present, including hundreds of masterpieces of world civilization. The museum displays not only paintings and sculptures, but also carpets, musical instruments, clothes and decorations. The five exhibition halls are: European painting, American painting, primitive art, medieval painting and Egyptian antiques.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art receives more than 5 million visitors every year and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in new york. The Metropolitan Museum of Art provides special collections and exhibits for every visitor-from ancient Egyptian vases and Roman statues to Tiffany stained glass and Rembrandt oil paintings, there is almost everyone's interest here. If you don't know how to deal with the museum's collection of such a huge scale and scope, please take the essence tour.
New york Museum's China Treasures (16)
Flogny Oskrat, flogny.
Even if they deliberately avoid it, it is still difficult for some museums to get rid of being accused of using informal means to obtain some rare cultural relics, such as flogny ostrich bottles. This 2500-year-old pottery bottle with exquisite and gorgeous patterns was bought by the Metropolitan Museum in 1972 at the price of 100 USD. The museum was very excited to get this vase, because the works of ancient pottery painter Euflogny Oss were very rare, but they bought it at such a low price from Robert Hecht, who was wanted by the Italian government for secretly selling and plundering cultural relics. So just when the curator of the Metropolitan Museum wanted to know where this pottery bottle came from, the museum received a phone call from Italy. It turned out that the pottery bottle was first found outside Rome, and the Italian side demanded to return it.
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In the eyes of many foreigners, China's traditional painting and calligraphy art is a "mystery" with infinite charm and difficult to decipher. The mystery and the answer to this mystery are actually related to the writing of ink and wash. At the beginning of September, the exhibition "Ink and Wash: China's Writing Art" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA, exhibited 70 works by ancient and modern China painters and painters, which provided new opportunities and possibilities for solving this profound mystery and aroused the keen interest of many American artists and visitors.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art rarely holds exhibitions of China's paintings and calligraphy works, and occasionally exhibits mainly the works of ancient painters and painters. The organizer of this exhibition specially selected the works of six contemporary China painting and calligraphy artists, aiming at finding the "code" of inheritance from the development track of China painting and calligraphy art, reflecting the continuation of an ancient culture and the current evolution of ancient ink painting art. These six contemporary China painting and calligraphy artists are Wang Dongling (Hangzhou), Wang Tiande (Shanghai), Prospect (Beijing), Gu Wenda (new york), Bing Xu (new york) and Qin Feng (Boston).
The works of these six contemporary artists, together with the works of ancient artists such as Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei, Li, Zhao Mengfu, Dong Qichang, Fu Shan, Mi and Ni Zan, constitute a river of China ink painting art, which makes people linger. The local media said: "The Metropolitan Museum of Art has not seen such a lively scene for a long time."
It is worth mentioning that the expression techniques used in the works of six contemporary artists are not pure traditions, but incorporate many modern elements. For example, Wang Dongling's works are abstract calligraphy, Wang Tiande's works use ancient bleaching techniques and modern digital technology, Xu Bing shows his original "English Chinese Character Calligraphy", and his forward-looking works are Taihu Stone Sculpture, Gu Wenda's seal script works with a sense of ink and landscape, and Qin Feng's modern calligraphy.
Perhaps, the organizer values not the form, but a tradition and a spirit, which is an artist's understanding of China's ink and wash writing through a unique carrier. It is not difficult to understand why they classified the stone carvings in Taihu Lake as "ink painting" and commented in the local media: "This installation works back to the history of calligraphy 1600 years. After several continuous development climaxes, (calligraphy) has now changed from a universal academic symbol to an abstract art. From this passage, it can be seen that how to make China's traditional painting and calligraphy art and modern art integrate and understand each other may also be one of the purposes of the organizer to hold this exhibition.
It is reported that 70 works on display this time are permanent collections selected from relevant American collectors and collectors. The exhibition will last until the middle of 2007 10. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a museum that mainly collects works of art from all over the world. It was built at the end of19th century, and now it is a leading large museum in the world.
photographic?exhibition
1 From June 3rd to September 6th, 2000, the photography exhibition "Looking Back at the Century: Photographers, 1840~ 1940" held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States was unique and gave visitors a wonderful feeling. The exhibition not only relives the history itself, but also shows the development of photography. 13 The works of excellent photographers have their own uniqueness. They explore photography with their own different perspectives and purposes. They use cameras to discover themselves, photography and the world. 13 photographers' stunning works are on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Century View: Photographers, 1840 ~ 1940" photo exhibition. these are
From silver plate photography to mobile phone snapshot, the history of photography has shown a series of miracles to the world, and every change has profoundly rewritten our understanding of the unity of time and space. With its development, photography also shows miracles from another angle, that is, it helps us to establish contact with the past that we have never seen before.
The exhibition adopts the mode of joint exhibition of old and new painters, and is planned by Malcolm Daniel of the photography department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "View of the Century" shows the hundred-year history of photography through the works of 13 photographers and their important historical influence.
The photo exhibition lists 13 photographers, and the photos displayed by each master range from 10 to 16, all of which are their amazing works. From William Henry Fox Talbot, an English gentleman who invented Carroll photography instead of silver plate photography, to Walker Evans and man ray, American photographers who love classical simplicity, to Henry Cartier-Blacet, a genius of street photography, and Brasett, a French photographer who is a master of night photography. Among them are the landscape photos of Roger Fenton, Gustav Le Grey and Carlton E Watkins; Portrait photos of French photographer Nadal and famous female photographer Julia Margaret Cameron; French photographer Charles Marville and others took photos of Paris and France in the early18th century and19th century.
All the works are basically arranged in chronological order. Exhibition is like the development of photography itself, from static to dynamic, from scenery and ruins to urban features, from people in the studio to people in activities. The first great works of the camera were nature and architecture, which were ubiquitous, interesting and relatively static, and they were just the best materials for early bulky cameras.
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One of the oldest photos in the exhibition is a copy of Fox Talbot's photo, which was taken in about 1835. The background is a gray photosensitive paper with a fern leaf barely visible on it. Replicas are exhibited because once the original is exposed, it will be completely destroyed. Fox Talbot's other 15 works are all-encompassing, including landscape photos and people photos, as well as his masterpiece Open the Door. In just a few years, he made the camera move from the primitive stage to complex photography. His last work in the exhibition is an intaglio photo of dandelion, even the fluff can be clearly distinguished.
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Daniel's selection criteria for his works is to try his best to show each photographer's creative type. For example, Roger Fenton turned from Victorian style to modern photography. One of his works is set in the ruins of the famous medieval Waller monastery in Yorkshire, and the center of the photo is a woman praying, which is meaningful. The rest of his photos, such as the railway in the Crimean port of Balaclava, show that he may be the first photojournalist in the world. Another photo taken in Salisbury Cathedral completely combines his two different styles.
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Most of Gray's works are the beautiful scenery of the forest and sea and sky in Fontainebleau, a small town in northern France, while Watkins focuses on the rugged, desolate and vast natural scenery in the western United States, combining geography with sensibility in his works. One of Fenton's photos shows a woman lying in an exotic Middle Eastern robe, tightly wrapped. There is a nude portrait of Legre hanging next to it, naked. Is this a showdown between Britain and France? Maybe it is. However, the women in both photos seem to be trying to avoid looking at the camera, which is not difficult to explain why the painting "Olympia" by impressionist master Monet is so shocking, and the naked woman in that painting has not avoided the eyes of the world.
In the exhibition halls where the works of Baudes, Atge and Marville are exhibited, there are all Paris-old Paris and new Paris, Paris in transition. Marville not only photographed the tranquility of men lying under chestnut trees, but also recorded Paris before and after Baron Osman's re-planning.
Other works show the development of modern photography art: holding a camera, you can take pictures by feeling at any time, and also prove that photography is an experimental art, starting from machinery, developing in the studio, and finally achieving artistic progress and perfection under the promotion of technology.
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Traffic overview of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Metro Lines 4, 5 and 6, and get off at 86th Street Station. Bus M 1, 2, 3 and 4, and get off near 82nd Street.
Name of attraction: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Contact information: Tel: 2 1253577 10.
Tickets for scenic spots: Tickets must be purchased. There was no fixed admission fee before, and the suggested donation was adopted. If you buy a ticket, you can visit the monastery on the same day.
Opening hours: Tuesday to Thursday and Sunday: 9: 30 am to 5: 00 pm15; Friday and Saturday: 9: 30 am to 8: 45 pm. Closing time: Monday, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day.
Admission: $20 for adults and $0/2 for students/kloc. The essence tour of the museum: provided all day, these volunteers' one-hour tour introduced the museum's collections well (free).
Gallery lectures: These one-hour lectures focus on explaining the contents of the gallery in detail. (included in the ticket for free)
Audio guide: according to your own pace and favorite exhibits, you can get detailed information (not all works are included), including permanent collections and special exhibitions of the museum ($7, $6 for members and $5 for children under 12).
The permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art represents different periods, different media and different ground sources. Egyptian art collections cover the period from 300,000 BC to the 4th century. Other permanent collections, including musical instruments, modern art and monastery art, in order to better understand the types and breadth of more than 20,000 works of art here-only part of art treasures, consult their website collection information. There are not only online galleries of selected collections in various exhibition halls, but also a searchable information database.
The collection of the Metropolitan Museum attracts more tourists than any scenic spot in new york, about 5 million people every year. It is impossible to see all the collections in one day or even a few days. It is suggested to choose one or two areas of interest or participate in a full-day museum visit.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is located on 82nd Street, Fifth Avenue. It is a huge treasure house, occupying four blocks, including more than 3 million exhibits. It may take a few and a half days to really visit famous places. Therefore, before entering the solemn hall, it is best to draw up a plan. In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, some people see the history of the exhibits themselves, some people see the history of the countries where the exhibits are located more easily, some people see their unique artistic value, some people see the artistic characteristics of their times from the exhibits, some people make pilgrimages for their ideals, some people inquire about their fame, some people regret not being able to see all the vast exhibits, and some people are grateful for being able to appreciate the precious collections. The museum will continue to stand, waiting for those who can benefit from it.
There are also many gardens and courtyards in the museum, with glass roofs towering into the sky. It will be very pleasant to have a rest inside. Of course, you can also buy meaningful souvenirs in museum shops.