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In Brief

Metropolitan Museum of Art will reopen in August as other museums test the waters

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A Bite Out of the Big Apple

Cash-strapped New York cultural institutions continue to slash jobs, exhibition funding

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Met The Past

The Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates 150th anniversary with intercultural curation

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Nobody Puts Getty in a Corner

Jacob Jonas The Company spotlights architecture through dance

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Empty Galleries, Empty Wallets

Museums and other vital cultural institutions feel the coronavirus squeeze

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Reopening Unclear, Try Again

Met, MoMA, and more go dark over coronavirus concerns

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Face Lift

The Met updates its facade with Wangechi Mutu sculptures

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Yes, There Are Pink Flamingos

The Met’s Camp: Notes on Fashion translates an elusive concept into design

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More Space News

Alicja Kwade hews a cosmos from steel and stone on the Met’s roof

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About Face

The Met premieres an annual facades series to spotlight contemporary work

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Out of the Heart of Darkness

The Met taps wHY for a $70 million renovation of the Rockefeller Wing

Spatial Affairs Bureau’s work spans across disciplines but consistently aims to engage architecture at the landscape scale, as evidenced by the firm’s Round Hill Pavillions, a series of indoor-outdoor structures that combine influences from the English picturesque and American vernacular architecture to envision new ways of engaging with memory, ecology, and bucolic vistas.
Space Oddity

Spatial Affairs Bureau runs wild over disciplinary boundaries

Culture vulture

NYC library cardholders can now visit dozens of museums for free

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Cloistered Clothes

DS+R’s spare design lets the Met’s fashion exhibit gleam alongside the art

Museum Moves

Hans Hollein’s son is tapped as the Met’s new director

New Affiliates on the Block

For New Affiliates, an aesthetic of imperfection and openness

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IDs Please

The Met’s new admission policy is a real design problem

Pictured here: Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the Lincoln Center President’s Bridge and Donor Wall, October 2012. (Courtesy NYC Mayor's Office)
Culture Wars

NYC arts groups nervous as city hashes out new funding plan