The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
"African Textiles" Lecture
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[0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2008-10-24 - 2008-10-24
Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University, discusses the vibrant textile traditions of Africa, focusing on the cross-cultural connections and diverse materials, modes of production, (...)
"Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Furniture - Crafts
- 2008-07-01 - 2008-09-21
"Art of the Royal Court: Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe" will be the most comprehensive exhibition to date on the tradition of hardstone carving (pietre dure) that developed in Italy (...)
J. M. W. Turner Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2008-07-01 - 2008-09-21
The first retrospective of the work of J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) presented in the United States in more than forty years, this international exhibition will highlight approximately 140 paintings and (...)
"Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840–1940" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Photography - Prints
- 2008-06-03 - 2008-09-01
The exhibition tells the story of photography’s first 100 years through the work of key figures who helped shape the aesthetic and expressive course of the medium. The exhibition presents 10 to 12 iconic (...)
"Medieval and Renaissance Treasures from the Victoria and Albert Museum" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Crafts - Other
- 2008-05-28 - 2008-08-17
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London houses one of the world’s finest collections of European decorative arts. The institution is currently undergoing extensive renovations, providing a rare opportunity (...)
Tiepolo Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing
- 2008-05-20 - 2008-08-17
Some 60 drawings by the brilliant Venetian master Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770) and his son and valued assistant Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727–1804) are on view in the court level of the newly (...)
"Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Fashion - Other
- 2008-05-07 - 2008-09-01
The symbolic and metaphorical associations between fashion and the superhero are explored in this compelling exhibition. Featuring movie costumes, avant-garde haute couture, and high-performance sportswear, (...)
"Jeff Koons on the Roof" Exhibiton
[0] [5]- Media: Sculpture
- 2008-04-22 - 2008-10-26
On view is an installation of sculptures by American artist Jeff Koons (b. 1955), featuring three of the artist’s meticulously crafted works that have never before been on public display. The works are (...)
"Beauty and Learning: Korean Painted Screens" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting
- 2008-03-11 - 2008-06-01
With the popularity of ch'aekkŏri ("books and things") paintings under royal patronage in the late eighteenth century, seemingly mundane objects such as books, porcelain vases, bronze vessels, and fruits (...)
"Anatomy of a Masterpiece: How to Read Chinese Paintings" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Calligraphy
- 2008-03-01 - 2008-08-10
The exhibition dissects 36 paintings and calligraphies from the permanent collection, juxtaposing actual artworks with enlarged photographic details that focus on fine points of style or content, in order (...)
Gustave Courbet Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography
- 2008-02-27 - 2008-05-18
This is the first full retrospective of the French artist Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) in thirty years, presenting some 130 works by this pioneering figure in the history of modernism, from his seminal (...)
"Radiance from the Rain Forest: Featherwork in Ancient Peru" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Crafts
- 2008-02-26 - 2008-09-01
In the Andean regions of ancient South America, the brilliantly colored feathers of Amazonian birds were a luxury that was much treasured and long used. From the third millennium B.C. onward, feathers (...)
"Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions" Exhibition
[0] [1]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2008-02-12 - 2008-05-11
French master Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) painted some of the most influential landscapes in Western art. In them, nature is viewed "through the glass of time" and endowed with a poetic quality that has (...)
Jasper Johns "Gray"
[0] [2]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints - Sculpture
- 2008-02-05 - 2008-05-04
The exhibition examines the use of the color gray by the American artist Jasper Johns (b. 1930) between the mid-1950s and the present. It brings together more than 120 paintings, reliefs, drawings, prints, (...)
Lee Friedlander "A Ramble in Olmsted Parks"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography - Architecture
- 2008-01-22 - 2008-05-11
This exhibition features approximately 40 photographs made by Lee Friedlander in the public parks and private estates designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America’s premier landscape architect. (...)
"In the Light of Poussin: The Classical Landscape Tradition" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints
- 2008-01-08 - 2008-04-13
Landscape as an independent genre flourished in the first half of the seventeenth century when artists from all over Europe—but especially France, the Netherlands, and the duchy of Lorraine—came to work (...)
"The Art of Time: European Clocks and Watches from the Collection" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Furniture
- 2007-12-18 - 2008-04-27
The exhibition draws upon the Metropolitan Museum’s extensive holdings of English, Dutch, French, German, and Swiss horology, ranging in date from the 16th through the 18th century. Acquired primarily (...)
"blog.mode: addressing fashion" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Fashion
- 2007-12-18 - 2008-04-13
As a living art form, fashion is open to multiple readings. A vibrant reflection of contemporary culture, fashion—especially in its most avant-garde expressions—affects us through its intense visual impact. (...)
Tara Donovan Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2007-11-20 - 2008-06-29
Tara Donovan (American, b. 1969) is known for working with commonplace manufactured materials such as tape, Styrofoam cups, or drinking straws to create abstract sculptural installations that often take (...)
"Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, 1808–1842" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Crafts
- 2007-11-20 - 2008-05-04
The silversmithing firm established in Boston in 1808 by Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner, and relocated to Philadelphia three years later, produced silver of unprecedented quality and grandeur. This (...)
"Asian Lacquer: Masterpieces from the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Crafts - Ceramics
- 2007-11-03 - 2008-05-11
Lacquer, a sap that is a natural plastic, has served as an artistic medium in China, Korea, and Japan for millennia. Lacquer is used for painting and is combined with gold, mother-of-pearl, and other materials. (...)
2D
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3D
- Architecture (12)
- Sculpture (138)
- Installation (86)
- Furniture (13)
- Fashion (9)
- Product (16)
- Crafts (20)
- Ceramics (13)
- Other (21)
Screen
- Film (11)
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- Digital (5)
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Misc.
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- Art Talk (7)
- Performance Art (8)
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