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TOP 200 ARTISTS
OF THE 20TH CENTURY
TO NOW
TIMES READERS AND SAATCHI ONLINE VISITORS VOTE FOR THEIR FAVOURITE ARTISTS
AFTER 1.4 MILLION VOTES WERE CAST, HERE ARE YOUR LEADING 200 ARTISTS:
| - | Pablo Picasso |
| - | Paul Cezanne |
| - | Gustav Klimt |
| - | Claude Monet |
| - | Marcel Duchamp |
| - | Henri Matisse |
| - | Jackson Pollock |
| - | Andy Warhol |
| - | Willem De Kooning |
| - | Piet Mondrian |
| - | Paul Gauguin |
| - | Francis Bacon |
| - | Robert Rauschenberg |
| - | Georges Braque |
| - | Wassily Kandinsky |
| - | Constantin Brancusi |
| - | Kasimir Malevich |
| - | Jasper Johns |
| - | Frida Kahlo |
| - | Martin Kippenberger |
| - | Paul Klee |
| - | Egon Schiele |
| - | Donald Judd |
| - | Bruce Nauman |
| - | Alberto Giacometti |
| - | Salvador Dalí |
| - | Auguste Rodin |
| - | Mark Rothko |
| - | Edward Hopper |
| - | Lucian Freud |
| - | Richard Serra |
| - | Rene Magritte |
| - | David Hockney |
| - | Philip Guston |
| - | Henri Cartier-Bresson |
| - | Pierre Bonnard |
| - | Jean-Michel Basquiat |
| - | Max Ernst |
| - | Diane Arbus |
| - | Georgia O'Keeffe |
| - | Cy Twombly |
| - | Max Beckmann |
| - | Barnett Newman |
| - | Giorgio De Chirico |
| - | Roy Lichtenstein |
| - | Edvard Munch |
| - | Pierre Auguste Renoir |
| - | Man Ray |
| - | Henry Moore |
| - | Cindy Sherman |
| - | Jeff Koons |
| - | Tracey Emin |
| - | Damien Hirst |
| - | Yves Klein |
| - | Henri Rousseau |
| - | Chaim Soutine |
| - | Arshile Gorky |
| - | Amedeo Modigliani |
| - | Umberto Boccioni |
| - | Jean Dubuffet |
| - | Eva Hesse |
| - | Edouard Vuillard |
| - | Carl Andre |
| - | Juan Gris |
| - | Lucio Fontana |
| - | Franz Kline |
| - | David Smith |
| - | Joseph Beuys |
| - | Alexander Calder |
| - | Louise Bourgeois |
| - | Marc Chagall |
| - | Gerhard Richter |
| - | Balthus |
| - | Joan Miro |
| - | Ernst Ludwig Kirchner |
| - | Frank Stella |
| - | Georg Baselitz |
| - | Francis Picabia |
| - | Jenny Saville |
| - | Dan Flavin |
| - | Alfred Stieglitz |
| - | Anselm Kiefer |
| - | Matthew Barney |
| - | George Grosz |
| - | Bernd And Hilla Becher |
| - | Sigmar Polke |
| - | Brice Marden |
| - | Maurizio Cattelan |
| - | Sol LeWitt |
| - | Chuck Close |
| - | Edward Weston |
| - | Joseph Cornell |
| - | Karel Appel |
| - | Bridget Riley |
| - | Alexander Archipenko |
| - | Anthony Caro |
| - | Richard Hamilton |
| - | Clyfford Still |
| - | Luc Tuymans |
| - | Claes Oldenburg |
TO SEE THE FULL 200 CLICK HERE
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Museums around the world:
Collection highlights,
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| The Metropolitan Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.
Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City's Central Park along Fifth Avenue (from 80th to 84th Streets). Last year it was visited by 5.2 million people.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens – businessmen and financiers as well as leading artists and thinkers of the day – who wanted to create a museum to bring art and art education to the American people.
‘The Metropolitan is a collection of museums, each deserving of many repeated visits. It is a vast storehouse of knowledge, where works of art are held for reference as well as for display; its collections are meant to be consulted as one chooses from a long menu. Indeed, the strength of the Met is that all under one roof it provides an almost infinite number of opt...
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| The Museum's two-million-square-foot building has vast holdings that represent a series of collections, each of which ranks in its category among the finest in the world. The American Wing, for example, houses the world's most comprehensive collection of American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts, presently including 24 period rooms that offer an unparalleled view of American history and domestic life. The Museum's approximately 2,500 European paintings form one of the greatest such collections in the world – Rembrandts and Vermeers alone are among the choicest, not to mention the collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist canvases. Virtually all of the 36,000 objects constituting the greatest collection of Egyptian art outside Cairo are on display, while the Islamic art collection is one of the world's finest. Other major collections belonging to the Museum include arms and armor, Asian art, costumes, European sculpture and decorative arts, medieval and Renaissance art, musical instruments, drawings, prints, antiquities from around the ancient world, photography, a...[ Read all ]
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Jasper Johns: Gray
February 5, 2008–May 4, 2008
Gustave Courbet
February 27, 2008–May 18, 2008
blog.mode: addressing fashion
December 18, 2007–April 13, 2008
Radiance from the Rain Forest: Featherwork in Ancient Peru
February 26, 2008–September 1, 2008
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
February 12, 2008–May 11, 2008
Beauty and Learning: Korean Painted Screens
March 11, 2008–June 1, 2008
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| The Metropolitan Museum presents more than 30 exhibitions each year, representing a wide range of artists, eras, and cultures. Some of the best-known of these have been Treasures of Tutankhamun (1978), The Vatican Collections (1983), Van Gogh in Arles (1984) and Van Gogh in Saint-Rémy and Auvers (1986-87), Degas (1989-90), Mexico: Splendors of Thirty Centuries (1990-91), Seurat (1991-92), Origins of Impressionism (1994-95), Splendors of Imperial China (1996), The Glory of Byzantium (1997), and The Private Collection of Edgar Degas (1997-98).
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Jeff Koons on the Roof
April 22, 2008–October 26, 2008 (weather permitting)
Masterpieces of Modern Design: Selections from the Collection
Opens May 2008
Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy
May 7, 2008–September 1, 2008
Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum
May 20, 2008–August 17, 2008
Tiepolo Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection
Opens May 20, 2008
Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840–1940
June 3, 2008–September 1, 2008
Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe
July 1, 2008–September 21, 2008
J. M. W. Turner
July 1, 2008–September 21, 2008
Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632–1717)
September 9, 2008–January 4, 2009
Refinement and Elegance: Early Nineteenth-Century Royal Porcelain
September 16, 2008–April 19, 2009
Giorgio Morandi, 1890–1964
September 16, 2008–December 14, 2008
Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939
September 23, 2008–December 7, 2008
New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burck...[ Read all ]
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$20 recommended for adults, $15 recommended for senior citizens (65 and older), $10 recommended for students, includes Main Building and The Cloisters on the same day; free to Members and children under twelve with an adult. To help cover the cost of special exhibitions, for which there is no additional charge or special ticketing, we ask that you please pay the full suggested amount.
You can order tickets on ticket web -
http://www.ticketweb.com/user/?region=nyc&query=schedule&venue=metro2
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Friday - 9.30 a.m. – 9.00 p.m.
Saturday - 9.30 a.m. – 9.00 p.m.
Sunday - 9.30 a.m. – 9.00 p.m.
Monday - CLOSED
Tuesday - 9.30 a.m. – 9.00 p.m.
Wednesday - 9.30 a.m. – 9.00 p.m
Thursday - 9.30 a.m. – 9.00 p.m
Closed Mondays (except as listed below), January 1, Thanksgiving Day, December 25
Galleries are cleared at 5:15 p.m., Sunday–Thursday, and 8:45 p.m., Friday and Saturday
The Main Building of the Metropolitan Museum—its galleries, public restaurants, and shops—will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on the following Met Holiday Mondays:
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: January 15, 2007
• Presidents' Day: February 19, 2007
• Memorial Day: May 28, 2007
• Independence Day Weekend: July 2, 2007
• Labor Day: September 3, 2007
• Columbus Day: October 8, 2007
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Directions to Main Building
By Subway/Bus
From The Cloisters: Take the M4 bus directly to 82nd Street and Fifth Avenue.
From East Side of Manhattan: Take the 6 train to 86th Street and walk three blocks west to Fifth Avenue; or take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue (from uptown locations) to 82nd Street or along Madison Avenue (from downtown locations) to 83rd Street.
From West Side of Manhattan: Take the 1 train to 86th Street, then the M86 crosstown bus across Central Park to Fifth Avenue.
From Penn Station: Take the M4 bus to 83rd Street and Madison Avenue.
See the MTA website for http://www.mta.info/mta/maps.htm
By Car
From The Cloisters, Bronx, Northern New Jersey, and New England: Take southbound Henry Hudson Parkway to 96th Street exit; cross Central Park and turn right on Fifth Avenue; enter Museum parking garage at 80th Street.
From Brooklyn and Staten Island: Take Williamsburg Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge, or Battery Tunnel to northbound/uptown FDR Drive; exit at 96th Street; turn left on York Avenue; turn right on 86th Street; turn left o...[ Read all ]
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The Museum parking garage, located at Fifth Avenue and 80th Street, is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. To receive a discount, Museum visitors must have their tickets validated at the Uris Center Information Desk near the Museum entrance at 81st Street. With a validated ticket, the fee is $15 for one hour, $18 for two hours, $23 for three hours, $26 for five hours, and $35 for five to ten hours. The maximum fee to 12:00 a.m. is $40. Without a validated ticket, the fee is $17 for one hour, $22 for two hours, $27 for three hours, $30 for five hours, and $35 for five to ten hours. The maximum fee to 12:00 a.m. is $40. For more information, please call 212-879-5500.
Designated spaces are available in the parking garage for visitors with disabilities. The clearance is six feet, six inches (6' 6"). Alternate arrangements can be made in advance for visitors with disabilities traveling in oversized vehicles. Please call 212-879-5500, ext. 3561 between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.
Bicycle racks are provided inside the garage for use during regular Museum h...[ Read all ]
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The Museum offers a broad spectrum of educational programming for all of its audiences, including guided tours in several languages, gallery talks, lectures, and films for adults as well as many activities for families and students. Almost all of these programs are free with Museum admission.
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Advance reservations are required for all groups of ten or more adults, or ten or more students with chaperones.
To purchase admission in advance, the Museum offers Guest Passes to individuals or organizations for $20 each or for a discounted rate of $16 each when ten or more passes are purchased. To purchase Guest Passes by telephone, please call 212-570-3711, Monday–Friday, 9:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Or, http://www.metmuseum.org/visitor/guest_order.htm , by fax or mail.
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Family programs, publications, and electronic materials are undergoing a period of intense experimentation at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the goal of creating a rich learning experience for all families who visit the Museum.
http://www.metmuseum.org/events/ev_family.asp
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| The Metropolitan Museum of Art welcomes students to a program of free classes held after school and on weekends. Both middle school and high school students have the rare and special opportunity to study original works of art in the Museum with instructors from the Education Department. All classes ask students to be active participants in understanding and appreciating works of art, and to look and respond through discussion in the galleries or through the creation of their own works of art in the studio. http://www.metmuseum.org/events/ev_student.asp
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Admission buttons are available at the Membership Desk in the Great Hall. A discount of 10% is available on all merchandise in the Met Store with a valid Member ID card. For more information about the benefits of joining the Museum, see http://www.metmuseum.org/member/index.htm
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