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THE ARTIST PROJECT. What artists see when the look at The Met. Season 4 launches on December 7.

Happy birthday, Tahir Salakhov! Many happy returns of the day! The Tretyakov Gallery magazine

The Metropolitan Museum of Art will celebrate the winter holidays with its annual presentation of the Christmas tree and Neapolitan Baroque crèche, the display of a spectacular late 19th-century silver Menorah and 18th-century Torah crown, and a variety of holiday-themed events at its Fifth Avenue building, located at 82nd Street and Fifth Avenue.

Christie’s concluded its marquee week of major auctions devoted to Impressionist, Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art on Friday with $1.1 billion in total sales, and overall sell-through rates of 80% by lot and 87% by value. A companion online-only sale of Picasso Ceramics continues through Tuesday, November 17.

La revista "Galería Tretyakov", la más importante publicación de arte de Rusia, ha lanzado un número especial dedicado al arte español, una edición de lujo que coincide con el Año Dual de la Lengua española y la literatura en español en Rusia.

Department of Asian Art will present the special exhibition this fall entitled Masterpieces of Chinese Painting from the Metropolitan Collection, which encompasses the vast historical sweep of the brush arts of China, dating from the Tang dynasty (608–917) to the present.

In About Trees erweisen 34 Künstlerinnen und Künstler dem Baum die Ehre, einige mit Werken, die speziell für die Ausstellung im ZPK entstanden sind. Am kommenden Wochenende können Sie bei uns viele der teilnehmenden Künstlerinnen und Künstler persönlich kennenlernen, sei es am Eröffnungsfest, am darauffolgenden Baumpflanztag oder anlässlich der Kuratorenführungen mit Künstlergesprächen.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that The Costume Institute’s spring 2016 exhibition will be manus x machina: fashion in an age of technology, on view from May 5 through August 14, 2016 (preceded on May 2 by The Costume Institute Benefit).

The exhibition is made possible by the Placido Arango Fund and the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.

The exhibition is made possible by the Mary Griggs Burke Fund, Gift of the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation, 2015.

Every month, MetCollects introduces one work of art recently acquired by the Met. We invite you to have a first look with us.

Andrea del Sarto’s Borgherini Holy Family, a focused exhibition that will present new findings on the Metropolitan Museum’s Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist, one of the Museum’s greatest works of the Italian Renaissance, will open on October 14, 2015.

Opening October 26 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition Design for Eternity: Architectural Models from the Ancient Americas—the first of its kind in the United States—will shed light on the role of these objects in mediating relationships between the living, the dead, and the divine.

Ghada Amer, born in 1963 in Egypt, is an artist who lives and works in New York. She works in a variety of mediums, including sculpture, painting, drawing, and installation.

Luis Camnitzer is a Uruguayan conceptual artist who works primarily in printmaking, sculpture, and installation.

The 11th VIENNAFAIR will take place from the 8th – 11th October 2015 at the renowned and popular fair venue Reed Messe Wien, Hall A.

Eskenazi is proud to present an exhibition of ten new paintings by Chinese contemporary master Liu Dan (b.1953), which will be on view at 10 Clifford Street, London, from 14 October to 14 November 2015.

During the Middle Kingdom (mid-Dynasty 11–Dynasty 13, around 2030–1650 B.C.), artistic, cultural, religious, and political traditions first conceived and instituted during the Old Kingdom were revived and reimagined. This transformational era will be represented through 230 powerful and compelling masterworks (individual objects and groups of objects) in the major international exhibition Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom, opening October 12 at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.

New Special issue of "The Tretyakov Gallery Magazine" ("VALENTIN SEROV. HERITAGE"), #3 2015 (48) has beeb published.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been named the world’s #1 museum in the 2015 TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice™ awards.