Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave.
New York
212-535-7710
www.metmuseum.org
Accommodates some of the greatest cultural treasures in the world, representing every category of art from just about every country from every time period from the Stone Age to the present. It houses the finest American art in the world, as well as an impressive collection of European, Greco-Roman, and Ancient Egyptian art. The Egyptian Art gallery includes a whole temple that was shipped to America as a gift.
- Documenting War - 05/21/2013 - 6:00 pm
- Glittering Images: An Evening with Camille Paglia in Conversation with Carrie Rebora Barratt - 05/22/2013 - 6:00 pm
- World Science Festival: Art and the Mind - 06/02/2013 - 3:00 pm
- Origins of Punk - 06/16/2013 - 3:00 pm
- How, When, and Why African Art Came to New York: A Conversation - 06/21/2013 - 6:00 pm
- The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia - 07/11/2013 - 2:00 pm
- My Met - Keith Christiansen - 09/24/2013 - 11:00 am
- Why Europe Committed Suicide - Adam Gopnik - 10/02/2013 - 6:00 pm
- My Met - Keith Christiansen - 10/03/2013 - 11:00 am
- Grand Central Terminal—A Century of Greatness - Barry Lewis - 10/03/2013 - 6:00 pm
- Why New Art Mattered - Sebastian Smee - 10/09/2013 - 6:00 pm
- Patriots, Pashas, and Peasants: French Painting from Delacroix to Courbet - Kathy Galitz - 10/10/2013 - 11:00 am
- Masterworks from the Met - Jerrilynn Dodds - 10/10/2013 - 6:00 pm
- Dr. Albert Barnes and The Barnes Collection - Marlene Barasch Strauss - 10/16/2013 - 2:30 pm
- How Proust Changed Our Minds - Alain de Botton - 10/16/2013 - 6:00 pm
- Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800 - 10/16/2013 - 6:00 pm
- Patriots, Pashas, and Peasants: French Painting from Delacroix to Courbet - Kathy Galitz - 10/17/2013 - 11:00 am
- Africa and the West - Kwame Anthony Appiah - 10/23/2013 - 6:00 pm
- My Met - Keith Christiansen - 10/24/2013 - 11:00 am
- Masterworks from the Met - Jerrilynn Dodds - 10/24/2013 - 6:00 pm
