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.
"The Making of a Collection Islamic Art at the Metropolitan" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2011-11-01 - 2012-02-05
The Metropolitan Museum of Art houses one of the largest, most comprehensive collections of Islamic art in the world. This could not have been achieved without the generosity of dedicated individuals who...More »
"Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe" Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography
- 2011-10-13 - 2012-01-02
This exhibition is the first large-scale presentation of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from Alfred Stieglitz's collection, acquired by the Metropolitan in 1949. In addition to being a master...More »
"Wonder of the Age: Master Painters of India, 1100–1900" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Painting
- 2011-09-28 - 2012-01-08
Indian paintings have traditionally been classified according to regional styles or dynastic periods, with an emphasis on subject matter and narrative content. Recent scholarship, however, has begun to...More »
Perino del Vaga Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2011-09-27 - 2012-02-05
Perino del Vaga was one of the most admired and influential Italian artists of the sixteenth century. Blending influences from Michelangelo, Raphael, and classical antiquity, his art, with its emphasis...More »
"Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculptures" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2011-09-21 - 2012-01-29
This major international loan exhibition challenges conventional perceptions of African art. Bringing together more than one hundred masterpieces drawn from collections in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium,...More »
"The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China: Masterpieces of Ming Loyalist Art from the Chih Lo Lou Collection" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Calligraphy
- 2011-09-07 - 2012-01-03
The collapse of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and subsequent conquest of China by semi-nomadic Manchu tribesmen from northeast of the Great Wall comprised some of the most traumatic events in Chinese history....More »
"The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Crafts
- 2011-08-30 - 2012-01-22
The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt was designed by Faith Ringgold and constructed in collaboration with New York City students ages eight through nineteen. The quilt poignantly conveys the importance of communication...More »
Romare Bearden (1911–1988) "A Centennial Celebration"
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2011-08-30 - 2012-01-08
Romare Bearden's vibrant mural-size tableau The Block (1971) will be on view as part of a centennial celebration of the artist's birth. The Block, an eighteen-foot-long collage, celebrates the Harlem neighborhood...More »
"Arts of Korea/Patchwork Textiles" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Crafts
- 2011-08-23 - 2011-12-11
On view will be highlights from the Museum's Korean collection, including ceramics, metalwork, lacquer, and sculpture, dating from about the fourth century B.C. to 2008. Notable masterpieces will include...More »
"Frans Hals" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2011-07-26 - 2011-10-10
The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the most important collection of paintings in America by the celebrated Dutch artist Frans Hals (1582/83–1666), whose portraits and genre scenes were famous in his...More »
"Paper Trails: Selected Works from the Collection, 1934–2001" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Drawing
- 2011-07-19 - 2011-11-27
The modern and contemporary artists in this installation have translated their fascination with paper into works that defy conventional definitions of drawing. Treating paper as a material rather than...More »
"Mother India: The Goddess in Indian Painting" Exhibition
[1][1]- Media: Sculpture
- 2011-06-29 - 2011-11-27
The goddess (devi) is both the source and the affirmation of life. In early Indian religions, this concept is deified in a variety of forms. While we lack a historical understanding of the quasi-magical-religious...More »
"A Sensitivity to the Seasons: Summer and Autumn in Japanese Art" Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Painting - Product - Crafts
- 2011-06-24 - 2011-10-23
This installation of paintings, screens, and objects in the Arts of Japan galleries will reflect the keen attentiveness to seasonal change evident in Japanese art. After the nation's capital was established...More »
"Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th-Century Europe"
[0][0]- Media: Drawing
- 2011-05-17 - 2011-08-14
By 1750, almost 2,500 professional artists and amateurs were working in pastel in Paris alone. Portraits in pastel were commissioned by all ranks of society, but most enthusiastically by the royal family,...More »
"Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Crafts
- 2011-05-17 - 2011-11-13
Astonishing archaeological discoveries made by Heinrich Schliemann at Troy (1871–73) and Mycenae (1876) linked the heroes of Homer's epics to the material culture of the Greek Bronze Age (3000–1050 B.C.)....More »
"Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" Exhibition
[10][7]- Media: Fashion
- 2011-05-04 - 2011-08-07
The exhibition, organized by The Costume Institute, will celebrate the late Alexander McQueen's extraordinary contributions to fashion. From his postgraduate collection of 1992 to his final runway presentation...More »
"Night Vision: Photography After Dark" Exhibition
[6][2]- Media: Photography
- 2011-04-26 - 2011-09-18
At the turn of the last century, night photography came into its own as an artistic genre. In the early years of the medium, capturing images under low-light conditions was nearly impossible, but by the...More »
"Anthony Caro on the Roof" Exhibition
[3][0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-04-26 - 2011-10-30
Sculptures by Anthony Caro (b. 1924)—who is considered the most influential and prolific British sculptor of his generation and a key figure in the development of modernist sculpture over the last sixty...More »
"Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective" Exhibition
[5][1]- Media: Drawing
- 2011-04-13 - 2011-08-28
This first retrospective of drawings by the contemporary American artist Richard Serra (b. 1939) presents a comprehensive overview of some forty years of his drawing activity. It traces the development...More »
"Poetry in Clay: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Ceramics
- 2011-04-07 - 2011-08-14
This exhibition focusing on buncheong ware, the bold and dynamic ceramic art that flourished in Korea during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, features approximately sixty works from the renowned...More »
"Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2011-04-05 - 2011-07-04
This exhibition focuses on the Romantic motif of the open window as first captured by German, Danish, French, and Russian artists around 1810–20. These works include hushed, sparse rooms showing contemplative...More »
"The Washington Haggadah: Medieval Jewish Art in Context" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Prints
- 2011-04-05 - 2011-06-26
This presentation features the Washington Haggadah, one of the most important illustrated Hebrew manuscripts preserved in an American public collection and an unprecedented loan from the Library of Congress....More »
"Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Drawing - Prints
- 2011-04-04 - 2011-06-12
This exhibition includes works on paper that date from the seventeenth century to the present day. A selection of prints focuses on Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) and Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606–1669)...More »
"After the Gold Rush: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Photography
- 2011-03-22 - 2012-01-02
Recent tumult at home and abroad has prompted soul-searching in some quarters of America, and many people have a sense that the promise of our founding ideals and the positive international sway we once...More »
"Reconfiguring an African Icon: Odes to the Mask by Modern and Contemporary Artists from Three Continents" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Sculpture - Product
- 2011-03-08 - 2011-08-21
In many world cultures masks allow performers to adopt a wide range of characters and emotions. They can take on an endless variety of forms: human or animal; sacred or profane; dramatic or comedic. They...More »
"The Andean Tunic, 400 BCE–1800 CE" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Product - Crafts
- 2011-03-08 - 2011-09-18
Featuring about thirty Andean tunics drawn from the Museum's collection, as well as loans from the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Textile Museum in Washington, D.C., and two private collections, the exhibition...More »
"Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York" Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Product - Media Arts
- 2011-02-09 - 2011-07-04
New York City and nearby New Jersey, Long Island, and Westchester County have been home to a vibrant Italian American population since the late nineteenth century. Within this community, a remarkable tradition...More »
"Cézanne's Card Players" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2011-02-09 - 2011-05-08
This exhibition unites for the first time the works from Cézanne's series of card player canvases together with their associated oil studies and drawings. Also included will be a carefully selected group...More »
"Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Drawing - Prints
- 2011-02-03 - 2011-03-27
The current display of drawings, prints, and illustrated books in the Johnson Galleries offers a rich presentation of artists' portraits and self-portraits, both drawings and prints, dating from the early...More »
"The Emperor's Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Furniture - Crafts - Ceramics
- 2011-02-01 - 2011-05-01
This loan exhibition organized by the Peabody Essex Museum presents some ninety paintings, decorative works, architectural elements, and religious works created for an elaborate two-acre private retreat...More »
"Commemorating His Majesty" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Calligraphy
- 2011-02-01 - 2011-05-01
Complementing the exhibition "The Emperor's Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City," this installation features imperially commissioned paintings and calligraphies from the Qianlong era. Self-conscious...More »
"A Renaissance Masterpiece Revealed: Filippino Lippi's 'Madonna and Child'" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2011-01-15 - 2011-04-25
Filippino Lippi is one of the great artists of fifteenth-century Florence. Among his principal patrons was the wealthy banker Filippo Strozzi (1428–1491), who commissioned a "Madonna and Child" for his...More »
"Extravagant Display: Chinese Art in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Sculpture - Furniture - Crafts
- 2010-12-15 - 2011-05-01
Drawn largely from the Museum's permanent collection, this exhibition explores the vibrancy and innovation of Chinese art in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, underscoring the taste for extravagant...More »
"Thinking Outside the Box: European Cabinets, Caskets, and Cases from the Permanent Collection (1500-1900)" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Crafts
- 2010-12-07 - 2011-10-30
This installation features a selection of one hundred examples of important boxes, caskets, and small chests from the Museum's Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. [Image: Christopher...More »
"Representation/Abstraction in Korean Art" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Painting
- 2010-11-23 - 2011-03-20
This special installation brings together objects and paintings from different periods of Korean art history, whose pairings and juxtapositions highlight the beauty, power, and emotional resonance of both...More »
"Haremhab, The General Who Became King" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2010-11-16 - 2011-07-04
The Metropolitan Museum's magnificent lifesize statue of Haremhab as a scribe is the centerpiece of the exhibition. Thematic groupings of related objects—whether historical antecedents or parallel works—explain...More »
"'Our Future Is In The Air': Photographs from the 1910s" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-11-10 - 2011-04-10
The twentieth century was truly born during the 1910s. This exhibition surveys the range of uses to which photography was put as its most advanced practitioners and theorists were redefining the medium...More »
"Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-11-10 - 2011-04-10
This exhibition features three giants of photography—Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946), Edward Steichen (American, b. Luxembourg, 1879–1973), and Paul Strand (American, 1890–1976)—whose works are...More »
John Baldessari "Pure Beauty"
[7][2]- Media: Drawing - Photography - Other - Installation - Video installation
- 2010-10-20 - 2011-01-09
This is the first major U.S. exhibition in twenty years to survey the work of the legendary American artist John Baldessari, widely renowned as a pioneer of conceptual art. Baldessari (b. 1931, National...More »
"The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Furniture
- 2010-10-19 - 2011-01-23
This is a small, scholarly focused exhibition of about fifty pieces of the distinctive "artistic furniture" and related objects produced by the workshop of Charles Rohlfs (American, 1853–1936) in Buffalo,...More »
"Katrin Sigurdardottir" Exhibition
[4][2]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2010-10-19 - 2011-06-05
Entitled Boiseries, the installations are full-scale interpretations of eighteenth-century French rooms preserved at the Metropolitan Museum, one from the Hôtel de Crillon (1777–1780) on the Place de la...More »
"Italy Observed: Views and Souvenirs, 1706–1899" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2010-10-12 - 2011-01-02
This installation will assemble the rich holdings of Italian vedute collected by Robert Lehman. From paintings of Venetian life by Luca Carlevaris to a Neapolitan album of gouache drawings documenting...More »
"Rugs and Ritual in Tibetan Buddhism” Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Crafts - Other
- 2010-10-07 - 2011-06-26
Thirty works dedicated to the enactment of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism, focusing on Tibetan tantric rugs as the seats of power employed by practitioners of esoteric Buddhism, will form this installation....More »
"Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart's Renaissance"
[3][1]- Media: Painting
- 2010-10-06 - 2011-01-17
The first major exhibition in forty-five years devoted to the Burgundian Netherlandish artist Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532) brings together Gossart's paintings, drawings, and prints and places them in the...More »
"Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Drawing
- 2010-10-05 - 2011-01-03
This exhibition showcases works on paper from the sixteenth to the twentieth century in a range of drawn and printed media. A group of sixteenth-century views of Rome features images of the most celebrated...More »
Joan Miró "The Dutch Interiors"
[5][2]- Media: Painting
- 2010-10-05 - 2011-01-17
A series of three early twentieth-century avant-garde paintings by Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893–1983) will be juxtaposed with the two paintings from the Dutch Golden Age that inspired them, providing rare...More »
"The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Calligraphy - Sculpture - Furniture - Product - Crafts - Ceramics
- 2010-09-28 - 2011-01-02
This exhibition covers the period from 1215, the year of Khubilai's birth, to 1368, the year of the fall of the Yuan dynasty in China founded by Khubilai Khan, and features every art form, including paintings,...More »
"The Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel" Exhibition
[1][1]- Media: Product - Crafts
- 2010-09-28 - 2011-04-03
First discovered in 1996 during construction on the Jerusalem–Tel Aviv highway in Lod (formerly Lydda), Israel, this large and impressive mosaic floor has only recently been uncovered and was displayed...More »
"The Yuan Revolution: Art and Dynastic Change" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Painting - Calligraphy - Furniture - Product - Crafts - Ceramics
- 2010-08-21 - 2011-01-09
Organized to complement the Museum's major loan exhibition The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty, this installation in the Museum's permanent galleries for Chinese painting and calligraphy...More »
Howard Hodgkin "Prints from the Collection, 1987–2002"
[1][0]- Media: Prints
- 2010-07-13 - 2011-02-13
Eleven monumental prints by the internationally renowned British artist Howard Hodgkin (b. 1932) are on view in this installation. Hodgkin's prints are multi-layered compositions wherein many printing...More »
"Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Drawing - Prints
- 2010-07-13 - 2010-10-03
This exhibition includes works on paper that date from the seventeenth century to the present day. A selection of French drawings includes recent acquisitions by Claude Vignon (1593–1670), Jacques André...More »
"Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography" Exhibition
[2][2]- Media: Photography
- 2010-07-02 - 2011-02-21
Themes of dislocation and displacement in contemporary photography are explored in this exhibition of works from the collection. Perambulations and digressions in photographic works from the 1960s and...More »
"Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein's New York Photographs, 1950–1980" Exhibition
[3][0]- Media: Photography
- 2010-06-08 - 2010-10-17
Leon Levinstein (American, 1910–1988), an unheralded master of street photography, is best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure studies made in New York City neighborhoods from...More »
"P.S. Art 2010 in The Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Other - Sculpture - Installation
- 2010-06-08 - 2010-08-08
Exceptional works of art by sixty-nine New York City public school students, ages four to twenty, are on view in the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education through P.S. Art, a collaborative program...More »
"An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Drawing
- 2010-05-12 - 2010-09-19
Over the past twenty years, Julie and David Tobey have assembled one of the preeminent collections of Italian Old Master drawings in private hands. Ranging across the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth...More »
"American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity" Exhibition
[3][3]- Media: Fashion
- 2010-05-05 - 2010-08-15
American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity is the first Costume Institute exhibition drawn from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Met. It will explore developing perceptions...More »
Doug and Mike Starn "Big Bambú"
[6][0]- Media: Installation
- 2010-04-27 - 2010-10-31
Invited by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to create a site-specific installation for The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, the twin brothers Mike and Doug Starn (born in New Jersey in 1961) will present...More »
"Picasso in The Metropolitan Museum of Art" Exhibition
[5][2]- Media: Painting
- 2010-04-27 - 2010-08-01
This landmark exhibition is the first to focus exclusively on works by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) in the Museum's collection. It features three hundred works, including the Museum's complete holdings...More »
"Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Crafts
- 2010-04-13 - 2010-11-07
Following the acquisition in 2002 of a pair of wine coolers from the Sachsen–Teschen Service, the core of the surviving parts was discovered in a French private collection. This superb ensemble was last...More »
"Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Drawing - Sculpture
- 2010-03-31 - 2010-10-03
The story of Rama—the Ramayana—one of the great epics of South Asia literature, has captured the imagination of Indian artists for centuries. Scenes from the Ramayana first appear at Deogarh, in north...More »
"Tutankhamun’s Funeral" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Crafts
- 2010-03-16 - 2010-09-06
In 1908, while excavating in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, the American archaeologist Theodore Davis discovered about a dozen large storage jars. Their contents included broken pottery, bags of natron...More »
"Side by Side: Oberlin’s Masterworks at the Met" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2010-03-16 - 2010-08-29
Founded in 1917, the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College is one of the finest college or university collections in the United States, serving as an invaluable educational resource for aspiring...More »
"The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Other
- 2010-03-02 - 2010-06-13
The Belles Heures (1405–1408/9) of Jean de Berry, a treasure of The Cloisters collection, is one of the most celebrated and lavishly illustrated manuscripts in this country. Because it is currently unbound,...More »
"The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2010-03-02 - 2010-05-25
The renovation of the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Dijon provides an opportunity for the unprecedented loan of the alabaster mourner figures from the tomb of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, and his wife,...More »
"Celebration: The Birthday in Chinese Art" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Other - Sculpture - Ceramics
- 2010-02-27 - 2010-11-28
In Chinese art, the birthday is a celebration of a long and rewarding life. This exhibition—focusing on scenes of splendid celebrations and works incorporating the theme of longevity—draws together examples...More »
Xie Zhiliu "Mastering the Art of Chinese Painting (1910–1997)"
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2010-02-06 - 2010-07-25
This exhibition includes a selection of around one hundred and fifty works by Xie Zhiliu (pronounced "shay jer-leo"), one of modern China's leading traditional artists and a preeminent connoisseur of painting...More »
"Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Prints
- 2010-02-02 - 2010-05-09
Sixty years before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, aristocratic Victorian women were already experimenting with photocollage. The compositions they...More »
"The Drawings of Bronzino" Exhibition
[0][1]- Media: Drawing
- 2010-01-20 - 2010-04-18
This exhibition is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572), and will present nearly all the known drawings by, or attributed to, this leading Italian Mannerist artist, who was active primarily...More »
Romare Bearden "The Block"
[0][0]- Media: Drawing - Photography - Other
- 2010-01-15 - 2010-04-30
This small-focus show from the Museum’s permanent collection features the 1971 mural-size collage The Block by Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988), as well as a dozen of his preliminary sketches and photographs,...More »
"Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection" Exhibition
[4][2]- Media: Painting - Prints - Sculpture
- 2009-12-17 - 2010-06-06
In 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired more than four hundred works of Japanese art from collector Harry G. C. Packard (1914-1991), by gift and purchase. The acquisition instantly transformed...More »
"Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2009-12-15 - 2010-06-13
This installation features fourteen bold and colorful paintings created by contemporary Aboriginal Australian artists. Drawn from a private collection in the U. S., the installation provides an introduction...More »
"Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Ceramics
- 2009-11-22 - 2010-03-21
The second porcelain factory in Europe able to make true porcelain in the manner of the Chinese was established in Vienna in 1718. Founded by Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier, the small porcelain enterprise...More »
"Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania" Exhibition
[0][1]- Media: Crafts
- 2009-11-17 - 2011-01-23
This exhibition—the first in an art museum to be devoted exclusively to Oceanic musical instruments—explores the rich diversity of musical instruments created and used in the Pacific Islands. Drawn primarily...More »
"Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Other
- 2009-11-17 - 2010-09-06
Music is a universal human phenomenon. Musical instruments and musical expression, however, take an almost infinite variety of forms throughout the world. This is especially true in Oceania (the Pacific...More »
"Velázquez Rediscovered" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2009-11-17 - 2010-02-07
"Velázquez Rediscovered" features a newly identified painting by Velázquez, "Portrait of a Man," formerly ascribed to the workshop of Velázquez, and recently reattributed to the master himself following...More »
"The Young Archer Attributed to Michelangelo" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2009-11-03 - 2010-12-31
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents the marble sculpture Young Archer, attributed to Michelangelo Buonarroti (Florence 1475–Rome 1564), in its Vélez Blanco Patio as part of a special loan from the...More »
"Art of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156–1868" Exhibition
[6][2]- Media: Sculpture - Product - Crafts
- 2009-10-21 - 2010-01-10
This will be the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to the arts of the samurai. Arms and armor will be the principal focus, bringing together the finest examples of armor, swords and sword mountings,...More »
"Pablo Bronstein at the Met" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Drawing - Installation - Digital
- 2009-10-06 - 2010-04-18
"Pablo Bronstein at the Met" is a presentation of new work by the London-based artist, addressing the history and future of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Several large ink drawings by the artist suggest...More »
"Robert Frank, Jack Kerouac, and Avant-garde Visual Culture of the Late 1950s" Panel Discussion
[0][0]- Media: Art Talk
- 2009-10-04 - 2009-10-04
Jeff L. Rosenheim, curator, Department of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, moderates a panel with Luc Sante, writer and critic, and author of "Lowlife: Lures and Snares of Old New York" (1991);...More »
"Watteau, Music, and Theater" Exhibition
[1][1]- Media: Painting
- 2009-09-22 - 2009-11-29
The exhibition will explore the place of music and theater in the work of the great early eighteenth-century French painter and draftsman Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684–1721), comparing an imagery of power,...More »
"Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans" Exhibition
[4][0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-09-22 - 2010-01-03
This exhibition celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of "The Americans," Robert Frank’s influential suite of black-and-white photographs made on a cross-country road trip in 1955–56....More »
"Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection" Exhibition
[9][2]- Media: Painting - Photography
- 2009-09-15 - 2010-06-13
Photographs are often perceived as transparent windows onto a three-dimensional world. Yet photographs also have their own material presence as physical objects. Contemporary artists who exploit this apparent...More »
"Vermeer's Masterpiece The Milkmaid" Exhibition
[5][2]- Media: Painting
- 2009-09-10 - 2009-11-29
The Milkmaid was painted by Johannes Vermeer in about 1657–58. It may be considered one of the last works of the artist's early, formative years, during which he adopted various subjects and styles from...More »
"Peaceful Conquerors: Jain Manuscript Painting" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2009-09-10 - 2010-03-28
The art of the book in medieval India is closely associated with the Jain religious community, and illustrated palm-leaf manuscripts survive from around the tenth century, while those on paper appear after...More »
"Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Drawing - Other
- 2009-09-05 - 2010-02-07
This exhibition celebrates the musical heritage of China—one of the oldest continuously documented traditions with roots reaching back more than 8,000 years. Featuring some 60 objects and illustrations—drawn...More »
"Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Ceramics
- 2009-08-22 - 2010-03-21
The second porcelain factory in Europe able to make true porcelain in the manner of the Chinese was established in Vienna in 1718. Founded by Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier, the small porcelain enterprise...More »
"Cinnabar: The Chinese Art of Carved Lacquer" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Sculpture - Product - Crafts
- 2009-08-06 - 2010-02-21
Although lacquer is used in many Asian cultures, the art of carving lacquer is unique to China. Lacquer is the resin (or sap) of a family of trees (rhus verniciflua) found throughout southern China. It...More »
"The Lens and the Mirror: Self-Portraits from the Collection, 1957–2007" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Prints - Sculpture
- 2009-07-21 - 2009-12-06
Artists’ self-portraits hold an enduring fascination for the viewer. When confronting an artist’s self-image, we not only feed our curiosity about the creator’s appearance, but we also witness the maker...More »
"Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo?" Film Screening and Discussion
[0][0]- Media: Film - Art Talk
- 2009-07-17 - 2009-07-17
Pre-screening discussion with Harold Koda, Kohle Yohannan, and Dorothy McGowan. In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model in Paris, on...More »
"Michelangelo’s First Painting" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2009-07-16 - 2009-09-07
Michelangelo’s biographers wrote that his first painting copied a well-known engraving by the German artist Martin Schongauer (1448–1491). Made in about 1487–88, The Torment of Saint Anthony has been...More »
"Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2009-07-14 - 2009-10-04
The current rotation highlights the grandeur and glory of Baroque Rome with drawings by Annibale Carracci, Pietro da Cortona, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and others for some of the most prestigious artistic commissions...More »
"Broken Flowers and Grass: Nature and Landscape in the Drawings of Anselm Kiefer" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Drawing
- 2009-07-02 - 2009-08-02
German artist Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) deploys landscape as an expressive tool in 28 works drawn from the Museum’s collection and presented in the Giaconda and Joseph King Gallery in the Lila Acheson Wallace...More »
"Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art" Exhibition
[0][1]- Media: Sculpture
- 2009-06-30 - 2009-11-15
The Metropolitan Museum of Art owns some forty-five sculptures by Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907), the American Beaux-Arts sculptor who worked in New York, Paris, and Cornish, New Hampshire. The Museum’s...More »
"Highlights from the Modern Design Collection: 1900 to the Present" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Furniture - Product
- 2009-06-23 - 2011-05-01
This installation of highlights from the Museum’s modern and contemporary design collection from 1900 to the present features forty-six objects, including Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s hand-crafted oak,...More »
"Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Sculpture - Crafts - Ceramics
- 2009-06-23 - 2009-09-20
Ancient Afghanistan—at the crossroads of major trade routes and the focus of invasions by great powers and nomadic migrations—was home to some of the most complex, rich, and original civilizations on the...More »
"Japanese Mandalas: Emanations and Avatars" Exhibition
[1][1]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Crafts
- 2009-06-18 - 2009-11-29
The introduction of Esoteric Buddhism to Japan from mainland China in the ninth century forever changed the visual landscape of Japanese religion, and of Japanese art as a whole. The rituals of Mikkyō...More »
"Napoleon III and Paris" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-06-09 - 2009-09-07
This dossier photography exhibition will focus on the changing shape of Paris during the Second Empire, when the city’s narrow streets and medieval buildings gave way to the broad boulevards and grand...More »
"Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Drawing
- 2009-06-02 - 2009-08-23
With strokes of genius, artists in the Middle Ages explored the medium of drawing, creating a rich array of works ranging from spontaneous sketches to powerful evocations of spirituality to intriguing...More »
"Masterpieces of Islamic Calligraphy from The Metropolitan Museum of Art" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Calligraphy - Ceramics
- 2009-06-02 - 2009-09-01
Masterpieces of calligraphy from the Islamic Art Department’s collections will be on display for a period of three months, showcasing the calligraphic art of the Islamic world, from Spain to south Asia...More »
"African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Sculpture - Crafts - Ceramics
- 2009-06-02 - 2009-09-27
The collections of African and Oceanic art in the Barbier-Mueller Museum in Geneva, begun in the 1920s by Josef Mueller and continued by Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller, represent the culmination of more than...More »
"Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective" Exhibition
[13][9]- Media: Painting
- 2009-05-20 - 2009-08-16
The first major exhibition in New York in twenty years devoted to one of the most compelling painters of the twentieth century, Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective features some 130 works--sixty-five...More »
"The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion" Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Fashion
- 2009-05-06 - 2009-08-09
Exploring the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty, The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion focuses on iconic models of the twentieth century and their roles in projecting,...More »
"Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom" Exhibition
[3][1]- Media: Sculpture
- 2009-04-28 - 2009-10-25
American artist Roxy Paine (b. 1966) has created a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide stainless-steel sculpture, especially for the Museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Giving viewers the sense of...More »
"The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984" Exhibiiton
[8][6]- Media: Photography
- 2009-04-21 - 2009-08-02
This is the first major museum exhibition to focus exclusively on “The Pictures Generation,” a tightly knit group of New York artists who created some of the most important and influential works of the...More »
"Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints
- 2009-04-14 - 2009-07-12
Among the works in this rotation are several recent gifts to the Department of Drawings and Prints, including groups of sixteenth-century Italian drawings by artists from Florence and the north of Italy,...More »
"Living Line: Selected Indian Drawings from the Subhash Kapoor Gift" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2009-03-25 - 2009-09-07
This selection of master drawings represents the distillation of the finest works assembled over two generations of collecting by Subhash Kapoor and his late father, Shree Parshotam Ram Kapoor. The exhibition...More »
"Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400–1600" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2009-03-17 - 2009-06-21
These forty-five exquisite works of art illustrate the height of artistic production under court and elite patronage during the first 200 years of the Joseon dynasty (1392–1910), a time of extraordinary...More »
"Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution" Exhibition
[1][1]- Media: Sculpture
- 2009-02-24 - 2009-05-24
Beginning in the 16th century, a tradition of bronze sculpture developed in France that was influenced by achievements of the Italian Renaissance but soon revealed its own distinct force, refinement, and...More »
"Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard" Exhibition
[3][3]- Media: Photography - Other
- 2009-02-03 - 2009-05-25
This exhibition will focus on a collection of 9,000 picture postcards amassed and classified by the American photographer Walker Evans (1903–1975), now part of the Metropolitan’s Walker Evans Archive....More »
Pierre Bonnard "The Late Interiors"
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing
- 2009-01-27 - 2009-04-19
The first exhibition to focus entirely on the radiant late interiors and still lifes of Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), the 80 paintings, drawings, and watercolors on display date from the artist’s later years,...More »
"Arts of the Ming Dynasty: China’s Age of Brilliance" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Painting - Calligraphy - Other
- 2009-01-23 - 2009-09-13
Drawn entirely from the extensive resources of the Metropolitan Museum, this exhibition presents the rich diversity of art created under China’s Ming dynasty (1368–1644). Its seventy paintings and calligraphies...More »
"Raphael to Renoir: Drawings from the Collection of Jean Bonna" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Drawing
- 2009-01-21 - 2009-04-26
This will be the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the European old master and 19th-century drawings from the distinguished collection of Mr. Jean Bonna in Geneva, Switzerland. Many of the 120...More »
Alexander Calder "Calder Jewelry"
[0][0]- Media: Crafts
- 2008-12-09 - 2009-03-01
American-born artist Alexander Calder (1898–1976) is celebrated for his mobiles, stabiles, paintings, and objets d’art. This landmark exhibition will be the first museum presentation dedicated solely to...More »
"Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche" Presentation
[0][0]- Media: Installation
- 2008-11-25 - 2009-01-06
The Museum will continue a long-standing holiday tradition with the annual presentation of its Christmas tree, a favorite of New Yorkers and visitors from around the world. A vivid eighteenth-century Neapolitan...More »
"Choirs of Angels: Painting in Italian Choir Books, 1300–1500" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2008-11-25 - 2009-04-12
More than two dozen leaves of the most splendid examples from the Museum’s little-known collection of choral manuscript illuminations will be exhibited, coinciding with the publication of a Museum Bulletin...More »
"Art and Love in Renaissance Italy" Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Prints
- 2008-11-18 - 2009-02-16
This exhibition explores the various exceptional objects created to celebrate love and marriage in the Italian Renaissance. The approximately 150 objects, which date from about 1400 to the mid-16th century,...More »
"Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C." Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Product - Crafts
- 2008-11-18 - 2009-03-15
This exhibition focuses on the extraordinary art created as a result of a sophisticated network of interaction that developed among kings, diplomats, merchants, and others in the Near East during the second...More »
"Reality Check: Truth and Illusion in Contemporary Photography" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Installation
- 2008-11-04 - 2009-03-22
This installation of works from the permanent collection—the third in the Museum’s new gallery for contemporary photographs—surveys the ways in which artists exploit photography’s fundamental illusionism...More »
"Raqib Shaw at the Met" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Painting
- 2008-11-04 - 2009-03-01
In this selection of work by Raqib Shaw (b. 1974), the Indian-born, London-based artist responds to the Holbein in England exhibition held in 2006–7 at Tate Britain. This is Shaw’s first solo show at a...More »
"African Textiles" Lecture
[0][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,...More »
"The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions" Exhibition
[2][1]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Sculpture
- 2008-10-24 - 2009-02-01
Philippe de Montebello—whose long and storied career at The Metropolitan Museum of Art has spanned nearly a third of the institution’s entire history—will retire after more than thirty-one years as director....More »
"Drawings and Prints" Selections from the Permanent Collection
[0][0]- Media: Drawing - Prints
- 2008-10-21 - 2009-01-11
On view will be European works on paper spanning the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries, including a number of recent acquisitions. Among the highlights is a group exploring depictions of gatherings...More »
Shigeyuki Kihara "Living Photographs"
[1][0]- Media: Photography
- 2008-10-07 - 2009-02-01
This exhibition presents photographs by Shigeyuki Kihara, a Samoan-born multimedia and performance artist who uses photography to explore themes of Pacific culture, identity, colonialism, indigenous spirituality,...More »
"The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Other - Fashion
- 2008-09-30 - 2009-03-22
Dazzling textile traditions have constituted an important form of aesthetic expression throughout Africa’s history and cultural landscape. Textiles have long been a focal point of the vast continental...More »
"Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939" Exhibition
[0][1]- Media: Prints
- 2008-09-23 - 2008-12-07
Rhythms of Modern Life will be the first major exhibition in the United States to examine the impact of Futurism and Cubism on British modernist printmaking from the beginning of World War I to the beginning...More »
"New York, N. Why?: Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt, 1937–1940" Exhibition
[2][0]- Media: Photography
- 2008-09-23 - 2009-01-04
In the late 1930s, Rudy Burckhardt—then a recent émigré to America from Switzerland—created what are today considered to be some of the greatest photographs of New York ever made. This exhibition will...More »
"Giorgio Morandi, 1890–1964" Exhibition
[1][3]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Other
- 2008-09-16 - 2008-12-14
This will be a comprehensive survey—the first in this country—of the career of Giorgio Morandi, one of the greatest 20th-century masters of still-life and landscape painting in the tradition of Chardin...More »
"Royal Porcelain from the Twinight Collection, 1800–1850" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Ceramics
- 2008-09-16 - 2009-08-09
The porcelain factories of Berlin, Sèvres, and Vienna achieved an extraordinary level of both artistic and technical skill in the first half of the nineteenth century, and the quality of painted decoration...More »
"Landscapes Clear and Radiant: The Art of Wang Hui (1632–1717)" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Painting
- 2008-09-09 - 2009-01-04
Wang Hui, the most celebrated painter of late 17th-century China, played a key role in reinvigorating past traditions of landscape painting as well as in establishing the stylistic foundations for the...More »
"Provocative Visions: Race and Identity" Selections from the Permanent Collection
[0][0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture
- 2008-08-19 - 2009-03-08
This installation features new acquisitions from the past fifteen years, on view at the Museum for the first time. Included are sculptures and prints by contemporary African-American artists—Chakaia Booker,...More »
"Early Buddhist Manuscript Painting: The Palm-Leaf Tradition" Exhibition
[1][0]- Media: Other
- 2008-07-29 - 2009-03-22
The exhibition displays the Museum’s rare holding of Indian illuminated palm-leaf manuscripts focuses on one remarkable Mahayanist Buddhist text, the Ashtasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra (Perfection of...More »
"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...More »
J. M. W. Turner Exhibition
[2][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...More »
"Masterpieces of French Art Deco" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Furniture - Product - Crafts
- 2008-06-30 - 2010-12-31
French Art Deco is one of the great strengths of the Metropolitan’s modern design collection. The Museum has been actively collecting in this area since the 1920s, when pieces were acquired directly from...More »
"Framing a Century: Master Photographers, 1840–1940" Exhibition
[1][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...More »
"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...More »
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...More »
"Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy" Exhibition
[5][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,...More »
"Jeff Koons on the Roof" Exhibiton
[10][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...More »
Reconstruction and Reinstallation of the Egyptian Art Galleries
[0][0]- Media: Architecture - Other
- 2008-03-30 - 2010-12-31
Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art, 1st floor Upon entering the Lila Acheson Wallace Galleries of Egyptian Art this season, visitors will see several newly installed galleries, which are part...More »
"Masterpieces of Modern Design" Exhibition
[1][1]- Media: Installation
- 2008-03-30 - 2008-10-05
This installation will feature important works in all media from the modern design collection by some of the most renowned designers of the 20th century. A highlight will be the 1934 History of Navigation,...More »
"Classic/Fantastic: Selections from the Modern Design Collection" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Drawing - Furniture - Ceramics
- 2008-03-30 - 2010-12-25
Order and disorder, reason and emotion, restraint and excess—opposing impulses such as these have influenced design since the beginning of civilization. The exhibition juxtaposes these divergent approaches,...More »
"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...More »
"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...More »
"Pop Art: Works on Paper" Exhibition
[3][0]- Media: Drawing - Prints
- 2008-02-29 - 2010-12-01
The term Pop Art was first used around 1954 to describe a group of British artists, but by the early 1960s it became synonymous with a new American art movement that appropriated images, techniques, and...More »
Gustave Courbet Exhibition
[5][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...More »
"Radiance from the Rain Forest: Featherwork in Ancient Peru" Exhibition
[1][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...More »
"Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions" Exhibition
[2][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...More »
Jasper Johns "Gray"
[1][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,...More »
Lee Friedlander "A Ramble in Olmsted Parks"
[3][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....More »
"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...More »
"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....More »
"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...More »
"Tibetan Arms and Armor from the Permanent Collection" Exhibition
[0][0]- Media: Crafts
- 2007-12-14 - 2009-09-30
This installation presents approximately 35 highlights from the Museum's extensive permanent collection of rare and exquisitely decorated armor, weapons, and equestrian equipment from Tibet and related...More »
Tara Donovan Exhibition
[1][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...More »
"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...More »
"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....More »
New Greek and Roman Galleries
[1][2]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Fashion - Crafts - Ceramics
- 2007-04-20 - 2011-04-25
The opening of the new Hellenistic, Etruscan, and Roman galleries—an entire wing housing over 5,300 objects in more than 30,000 square feet—completes the reconstruction and reinstallation of the permanent...More »
New York art info in your inbox!
Hot exhibitions, openings, reviews, & more for free!
