The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) was founded in 1870 for the purposes of opening a museum to bring art and art education to the American people. The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments.
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Esmaeil Jalayir
Ali Banisadr
Shahpour Pouyan
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News and Articles
Alice Neel: People Come First
Alice Neel: People Come First is the first museum retrospective in New York of American artist Alice Neel (1900–1984) in twenty years.
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The Museum is being Closed, Temporarily
Museum is temporary closed due to concerns about spreading corona virus.
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A Cree Artist Redraws History
With humor and fantasy, Kent Monkman disrupts clichés of Native victimhood at the Met.
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