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• NY's Met Museum lets visitors climb to cloud nine

  -- Go ahead. Poke your head in the clouds.On the rooftop of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art , "Cloud City" welcomes visitors.Argentinian artist Tomas Saraceno created the 16 stainless steel-framed bubbles, accessible via transparent staircases that take   Read more »

• Sofia Vergara splits with boyfriend Nick Loeb

  before this past weekend, Us Weekly said Wednesday. While Vergara, 39, attended the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday solo, the two were together at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner on April 28, the Los Angeles   Read more »

• Met celebrates its latest fashion exhibit

  A List of the A List was out in full force Monday night for the Metropolitan Museum of Art 's Costume Institute Benefit celebrating the opening of their latest fashion exhibit, " Schiaparelli and Prada : Impossible Conversations."The exhibit juxtaposes the   Read more »

• Teen points out inaccurate map to NYC's Met museum

  -- A Connecticut teenager says workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City didn't believe him when he pointed out an inaccuracy with a map on display showing the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century.But 13-year-old Benjamin Lerman Coady of West   Read more »

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• Love, Fiercely

  immortalized in a celebrated portrait by John Singer Sargent in 1897. The massive painting now hangs in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the depiction of Edith so intrigued Zimmerman when she first encountered it that she ended up unearthing all 4:55 PM from Christian Science Monitor Read more »

• Epic: MakerBot is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, scanning art for the world to download and make

  a wish then that I could bring the museum into the classroom. Little did I know that 6 years later, I would be in the Metropolitan Museum of Art with some of the best artists and designers in the world scanning art and sharing it on Thingiverse for the world 2:59 PM from The Next Web Read more »

• AO Newslink

  Cy Twombly foundation has paid $27.75 million for a 25-foot-wide Beaux Arts mansion near the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with plans to convert it into a museum dedicated to his work. Twombly was “a towering figure in American art. It is only fitting that there   from Art Observed Read more »

• Museum and Gallery Listings for June 1 — 7

  displayed in the Robert Lehman Wing. Sometimes it takes an exhibition. (212) 535-7710, metmuseum.org . (Smith) ★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: ‘Naked Before the Camera’ (through Sept. 9) This resonant, illuminating if sometimes fraught exhibition traces the   from The New York Times Read more »

• Ellsworth Kelly Explores the Secret Life of Plants

  closely observed drawings of plants. On June 5, 74 of these works—six decades’ worth—will go on view at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. “When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I’ve got to draw,” Mr. Kelly said. “And drawing for me is the beginning   from Wall Street Journal Blogs Read more »