The Met Breuer - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for The Met Breuer. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Gerhard Richter “Painting After All”
The Met Breuer, Floors 3 & 4 The Met will present a major loan exhibition devoted to the work of one of the most renowned artists of our time: Gerhard Richter (German, born Dresden 1932). Gerhard...More »
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Vija Celmins Exhibition
This retrospective will provide a comprehensive view of Vija Celmins’s career through a selection of approximately 120 works—from her earliest paintings made in Los Angeles in the 1960s to objects completed...More »
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Oliver Beer “Vessel Orchestra”
The Met Breuer, Floor 5 Oliver Beer: Vessel Orchestra, the first sound-based performance exhibition commissioned by The Met, is composed of 32 objects from The Met collection—sculptures, utilitarian...More »
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Mrinalini Mukherjee Exhibition
The Met Breuer, Floor 3 Sculptor Mrinalini Mukherjee (1949–2015) will be the subject of a revelatory retrospective at The Met Breuer. Phenomenal Nature: Mrinalini Mukherjee, on view June 4 through September...More »
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“Home Is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquisitions in Context” Exhibition
The Met Breuer, Floor 2 The Met Breuer, Home Is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquisitions in Context will present a diverse group of paintings, sculptures, installations, and videos made between 1944 and...More »
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“Julio Le Parc 1959” Exhibition
The Met Breuer, Floor 2 The first solo exhibition in a New York museum of Argentinian artist Julio Le Parc (born 1928). The show celebrates the artist’s extraordinary gift to The Met of 24 works and...More »
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“Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy” Exhibition
For the last fifty years, artists have explored the hidden operations of power and the symbiotic suspicion between the government and its citizens that haunts Western democracies. Everything Is Connected:...More »
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“Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso” Exhibition
at the Met Breuer, Floor 2 At The Met Breuer this summer, the exhibition Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection will present a selection from The Metropolitan...More »
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“Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now)” Exhibition
Seven hundred years of sculptural practice—from 14th-century Europe to the global present—will be examined anew in this groundbreaking exhibition. Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now) explores...More »
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Leon Golub “Raw Nerve”
Leon Golub: Raw Nerve presents a selective survey of this groundbreaking artist’s work. Timed to celebrate the 2016 gift to The Met of the monumental painting Gigantomachy II (1966) from The Nancy Spero...More »
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Anselm Kiefer Exhibition
Throughout his nearly 50-year career, the German artist Anselm Kiefer (born 1945) has never been afraid to wrestle with the past. In 1969, toward the end of his studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts...More »
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Edvard Munch “Between the Clock and the Bed”
Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863–1944) attained fame early in his career for his depictions of human anxiety. Throughout his career, Munch regularly revisited subjects from his earlier years, exploring...More »
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“Modernism on the Ganges: Raghubir Singh Photographs” Exhibition
The Met Breuer, Floor 2 Raghubir Singh (1942–1999) was a pioneer of color street photography who worked and published prolifically from the late 1960s until his death in 1999 at age 56. Born into an...More »
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“Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950–1980” Exhibition
Delirious times demand delirious art, or so this exhibition proposes. The years between 1950 and 1980 were beset by upheaval. Around the globe, military conflict proliferated and social and political unrest...More »
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Ettore Sottsass Exhibition
A seminal figure in 20th-century design, the Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007) created a vast body of work, the result of an exceptionally productive career that spanned more than...More »
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“The Body Politic: Video from The Met Collection” Exhibition
The Met Breuer, Floor 2 The Body Politic: Video from The Met Collection will present four videos created between 1995 and 2015. Ranging from the provocative to the poignant to the absurd, the videos...More »
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“A Multitude of Forms Lygia Pape” Exhibition
The Met Breuer, Floor 4 The first major retrospective exhibition in the United States devoted to Brazilian artist Lygia Pape (1927–2004) will open at The Met Breuer on Tuesday, March 21. A critical...More »
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Marsden Hartley “Maine”
The Met Breuer, Floor 3 The exhibition Marsden Hartley’s Maine will showcase the American artist’s lifelong artistic engagement with his home state of Maine. Approximately 90 paintings and drawings...More »
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“Breuer Revisited: New Photographs by Luisa Lambri and Bas Princen”
This exhibition presents two series of commissioned photographs that reflect on the architecture of Marcel Breuer (Hungarian, 1902–1981). The images on view by the artist Luisa Lambri and the photographer...More »
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Marisa Merz Exhibition
This exhibition is the first major retrospective in the United States of works by Italian painter, sculptor, and installation artist Marisa Merz (born 1926), the sole female protagonist of the Arte Povera...More »
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Kerry James Marshall “Mastry”
The Met Breuer, 3rd and 4th floors The largest museum retrospective to date of the work of American artist Kerry James Marshall (born 1955) will open this October at The Met Breuer as a cornerstone...More »
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“Kerry James Marshall Selects” Exhibition
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry will be complemented by the concurrent exhibition Kerry James Marshall Selects, curated by the artist. Marshall will draw some 40 works from The Met collection, ranging from...More »
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Paul Klee Exhibition
The Met Breuer, 5th Floor An installation of works from The Berggruen Klee Collection—the largest collection of works by Paul Klee in the United States—is on view at The Met Breuer through December...More »
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Diane Arbus “In the Beginning”
The Met Breuer, 2nd floor As part of the inaugural season at The Met Breuer, diane arbus: in the beginning will open on July 12, featuring more than 100 photographs that together will redefine one of...More »
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“Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2016-03-18 - 2016-09-04
Exhibition Location: The Met Breuer, 3rd and 4th floors Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible examines a subject that is critical to artistic practice: the question of when a work of art is finished. Opening...More »
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Nasreen Mohamedi Exhibition
Exhibition Location: The Met Breuer, 2nd floor, Madison Avenue and 75th Street Celebrating one of the most important artists to emerge in post-Independence India, and marking the first museum retrospective...More »
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Vijay Iyer “Relation: A Performance Residency”
MetLiveArts Presents Vijay Iyer at The Met Breuer in March 2016 Resident Artist Vijay Iyer Inhabits The Met Breuer’s Tony and Amie James Gallery for a Durational Performance Location: Tony and Amie...More »