<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://wcbstv.com/met/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>New York News, Weather, Sports &amp; Traffic - WCBSTV.com</title><link>http://wcbstv.com/met</link><description><![CDATA[New York News, Weather, Sports & Traffic - WCBSTV.com]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:38:26 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[CBS 2 At The Met: African And Oceanic Art]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.1152557.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.1152557.html</link><description><![CDATA[It's worlds away from Switzerland, and that's what intrigued Josef Mueller about African and Oceanic Art. The culture, the creativity and the impact on the world's art. Already a collector of Impressionist Paintings, barely out of his 20's, Curator Alisa LaGamma tells CBS2's Dana Tyler how the artist became a passionate collector of Modern and Non-Western Art.
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:52:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CBS 2 At The Met: Francis Bacon]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.1111591.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.1111591.html</link><description><![CDATA[Brace yourself for artist Francis Bacon. Passionate about painting, the Dublin-born Bacon, who never went to art school, is considered one of the most influential European painters of the 20th century. In this exhibition, celebrating the 100th anniversary of Bacon's birth, the artist's twisted, tortured human figures, and dramatic interpretations of screeching religious icons, demand your attention.
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:46:38 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CBS 2 At The Met: Anselm Kiefer ]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.1072213.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.1072213.html</link><description><![CDATA[These bugs don't bite, so come up close to see what the buzz is about.  From the museum's permanent collection of nearly two million drawings and prints, a summer show of creepy crawlies from the 17th through the 20th Century.  Imagine these bold beetles on your dining room wall.  In this 1929 lithograph,  the French artist, Emile-Allain Seguy, found insects made interesting Art Deco designs.
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:20:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CBS 2 At The Met: All About Bugs]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.1053428.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.1053428.html</link><description><![CDATA[These bugs don't bite, so come up close to see what the buzz is about.  From the museum's permanent collection of nearly two million drawings and prints, a summer show of creepy crawlies from the 17th through the 20th Century.  Imagine these bold beetles on your dining room wall.  In this 1929 lithograph,  the French artist, Emile-Allain Seguy, found insects made interesting Art Deco designs.
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:11:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CBS 2 At The Met: Maelstrom]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.1034770.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.1034770.html</link><description><![CDATA[A giant, stainless steel structure swirls,  twists and weaves its way across the Rooftop Garden at the Met. Surrounded by lush Central Park and the geometric Manhattan skyline, the sculpture's knarley branches stretch this way and that, in chaotic order.  Brooklyn artist Roxy Paine calls it "Maelstrom."
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:06:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CBS 2 At The Met: Raphael To Renoir]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.988586.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.988586.html</link><description><![CDATA[With a rare 15th century drawing by Raphael as its centerpiece, this new exhibition at the Met is all owned by one man who lives in Geneva, Switzerland. A banker by trade, Jean Bonna is one of the world's top collectors of Old Master drawings. He began his collection only 22-years ago. Curator Carmen Bambach tells Dana Tyler that Bonna's choices are personal yet telling.
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:13:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CBS 2 At The Met: Walker Evans, Picture Postcards]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.970675.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.970675.html</link><description><![CDATA[Tiny pictures of everywhere-America. An afternoon on a Coney Island Beach. A barren street in Cheyenne, Wyoming, You can see thousands of postcards capturing snapshots of early 20th century life, all from the private collection of the late American Photographer Walker Evans. You'll learn that Evans' penchant for collecting started as a child. He had an eye for street-stuff, driftwood, bottlecaps, soda-can pull tabs and street signs. Met Curator Jeff Rosenheim tells CBS2's Dana Tyler that Evans was fascinated with how postcards recorded history without the varnish of fine art.
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:54:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CBS 2 At The Met: Jean Bonna]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.959658.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.959658.html</link><description><![CDATA[With a rare 15th century drawing by Raphael as its centerpiece, this new exhibition at the Met is all owned by one man who lives in Geneva, Switzerland. A banker by trade, Jean Bonna is one of the world's top collectors of Old Master drawings. He began his collection only 22-years ago. Curator Carmen Bambach tells Dana Tyler that Bonna's choices are personal yet telling.
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:32:20 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CBS 2 At The Met: Love In Renaissance Italy]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.892277.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.892277.html</link><description><![CDATA[Those happy family milestones of Italian families were celebrated in extravagant ways. "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy" is a collection of 150 works of art made to mark the occasions of engagement, marriage or a baby's birth. From jewelry given to the couples, to marriage portraits, to birth trays given to the mothers, the art was commissioned and treasured for generations. Curator Andrea Bayer explains to CBS2's Dana Tyler that this exhibition shows domestic art was a big part of the Renaissance.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:31:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[CBS 2 At The Met: Contemporary Photography]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.899586.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/met/at.the.met.2.899586.html</link><description><![CDATA[Pictures don't always tell the story. When you see "Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography," be prepared. The thirty photographs, from the 1970's, and most from the Met's permanent collection are meant to confuse. You can't tell if what you're looking at is authentic or make-believe. And Senior Research Associate tells CBS2's Dana Tyler, that's just what the photographers want.
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