Tag: Metropolitan Museum of Art
The activists that run the Illuminator Collective, who protest injustice and corruption with guerrilla light projections in New York City and beyond, are suing the NYPD’s Central Park Precinct. Members Kyle DePew, Grayson Earle and Yates McKee are alleging false arrest and improper seizure of property, according to a press release. DePew, Earle and McKee […]
The Wall Street Journalreports that artist Pierre Huyghe has nixed a sculpture that contains a dead cat from his installation on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rooftop garden, as well as another piece that would have contained live ants. The installation, which opens Tuesday, was slated to contain the two pieces as part of the […]
Thanks to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 394,000 art images are now publicly available for high-resolution download and non-commercial reuse. The initiative, dubbed Open Access for Scholarly Content, launched last week. “Through this new, open-access policy, we join a growing number of museums that provide free access to images of art in the public domain,” Met […]
During the American Civil War, many aspects of photography were still very much in their early developmental stages. Lack of technological advancements prevented photography at the scene on the battlefield, so much of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Photography and the American Civil War” exhibition features images after the bloody battles, from the soldier camps and medical tents. […]
Everyone’s favorite LA-via-Berlin-via-Brooklyn-via-LA art punks will be bringing their signature brand of dissonance and paranoia to the Metropolitan Museum of Art this May. Details on the site-specific performance are relatively scant, but we do know that the band will be taking to the Met’s Temple of Dendur, a reconstructed, 2000-year old Egyptian religious structure–which, for […]
