Friday, May 10th: DJ Spooky’s Civil War Symphony at the Met (Get 50% Off Tickets Now)
Click here for 50% off tickets to DJ Spooky’s Civil War Symphony. Paul D. Miller (a.k.a. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid) wants to show audiences that music and art are always in dialogue. Working alongside Jeff L. Rosenheim, the curator of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the electronic and hip-hop artist presents a [...]
Saturday, May 4th: Metropolitan Museum Concert Featuring Priceless Violins
Click here for 50% off tickets to Salomé Chamber Orchestra at the Met. Currently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Sau-Wing Lam Collection of Rare Italian Stringed Instruments is one of the finest assemblies of super-rare musical instruments in the world. It includes handmade violins by Giuseppe Guarneri (the “Baltic”), Nicolò Amati [...]
Friday, February 29th: The Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert (Get 50% Off Tickets Now)
Click here for 50% off tickets to he Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert. The Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert, proclaimed by The New York Times as “the most consistently satisfying chamber music series in New York,” celebrates its tenth season with a concert of tradition and innovation. Head to the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium in [...]
Tuesday, February 12th: Stephen Lang Performs Lincoln’s Greatest Speeches ($15 Off Tickets Now)
Click here for $15 off tickets to Lincoln Seen and Heard. Set to coincide with the 203rd anniversary of Lincoln’s birth, this Metropolitan Museum of Art performance pays homage to the beloved U.S. president through his unforgettable words and a series of historical images. In this special encore of a program that’s been performed at [...]
Friday, January 18th: ‘The Nauru Elegies’ with DJ Spooky at the Met (Get 50% Off Tickets Now)
Click here for 50% off tickets to The Nauru Elegies. A synthesis of live string music, projected high-definition video footage, digital animation and live internet feed, The Nauru Elegies is the fascinating work of DJ Spooky, who proclaims that the tiny island of Nauru is a reflection of many of the issues facing our contemporary [...]
Through Sunday, January 27th: ‘Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop’
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 5th Ave., Manhattan) always has suggested donation museum admission. The urge to modify camera images is as old as photography itself—only the methods have changed. Nearly every type of manipulation we now associate with digital photography was also part of the medium’s pre-digital repertoire: smoothing away wrinkles, slimming waistlines, [...]
Through Monday, December 31st: ‘Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years’
For decades, critics have observed that Andy Warhol exerted an enormous impact on contemporary art, but no exhibition has yet explored the full nature or extent of that influence. Through approximately forty-five works by Warhol alongside one hundred works by some sixty other artists, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years juxtaposes prime examples of Warhol’s [...]
Sunday, December 16th: JACK Quartet at the Met (Buy Half Price Tickets Now)
Click here for half price tickets to see JACK Quartet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The JACK Quartet brings their cutting-edge version of chamber music to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Medieval Sculpture Hall. They usually use their explosive technique on works by today’s greatest composers of new music, and this concert is no [...]
Through Sunday, November 4th: Tomás Saraceno on the Roof of the Met: ‘Cloud City’
Artist Tomás Saraceno (born in Tucumán, Argentina, in 1973) has created a constellation of large, interconnected modules constructed with transparent and reflective materials for the Museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Visitors may enter and walk through these habitat-like, modular structures grouped in a nonlinear configuration. Over the past decade, Saraceno has established [...]
Friday, October 26th: DJ Spooky’s ‘Madame Freedom’: Korean Film with Live Score at The Met
Click here for half price tickets to Madame Freedom. Composer-artist-writer Paul D. Miller, otherwise known as DJ Spooky, joins a string quartet in a live performance of his re-score of the 1956 South Korean melodrama Madame Freedom as the film screens. Part of DJ Spooky’s The Met Reframed series, the performance takes place at the [...]
Friday, August 17th: An Evening of Art and a Summer Sunset on the Met’s Roof with ‘Cloud City’
An Evening of Art and a Summer Sunset on the Met’s Roof with Cloud City The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 5th Ave., Manhattan) 5-7pm Included with suggested donation museum admission View Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City while listening to a DJ set by Widowspeak (weather permitting), and enjoy special tours of Naked [...]
Through Sunday, October 30th: Anthony Caro on the Roof of the Met
Sculptures by Anthony Caro, who is considered the most influential and prolific British sculptor of his generation and a key figure in the development of modernist sculpture over the last sixty years—will be featured in the 2011 installation on The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. The installation will feature a selection of sculpture [...]
