Metropolitan Museum of Art
In February 2009, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it would be freezing staff hiring, and that 15 of its 23 satellite stores nationwide would be closed.
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Famous quotes containing the words metropolitan, museum and/or art:
“In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
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And men have lost their reason!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)