Exhibitions

Metropolitan Museum to Open Renovated Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Opened: November 1, 2011

Storytelling in Japanese Art
November 19, 2011–May 6, 2012

Victorian Electrotypes on View in New Installation at the Metropolitan Museum
November 22, 2011–April 22, 2012

Lisbon's Hebrew Bible
On view November 22, 2011

Art in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1515: Paintings and Drawings from the Museum's Collections
November 8, 2011 - February 5, 2012

Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche on Display for Holiday Season at Metropolitan Museum
November 22, 2011–January 8, 2012

The Making of a Collection: Islamic Art at the Metropolitan
November 1, 2011-February 5, 2012

Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe Features 200 Works by European and American Modernists in the Metropolitan Museum's Collection
October 13, 2011–January 2, 2012

Exhibition Celebrating Late Renaissance Master Perino del Vaga at Metropolitan Museum
September 27, 2011–February 5, 2012

Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi, 1501-1547), a pupil of Raphael, was a leading innovator of the late Renaissance style known as Mannerism, and one of the most influential Italian artists of the 16th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently acquired a painting and a drawing by the master, and they will both be featured in Perino del Vaga in New York Collections, on view from September 27, 2011, through February 5, 2012. The new acquisitions will be seen alongside some 18 drawings by the artist from the Metropolitan Museum, the Morgan Library & Museum, and private collections, as well as a second painting from a New York private collection.

Major International Loan Exhibition Featuring Greatest Artists in History of Indian Painting Goes on View at Metropolitan Museum in October
September 28, 2011 – January 8, 2012

Epic Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum Reexamines Masterpieces of African Art in Relation to Historic Figures
September 21, 2011 – January 29, 2012

Good Humor at the Met—Caricature and Satire Explored in Infinite Jest at the Metropolitan Museum
September 13, 2011–March 4, 2012

Acclaimed Hong Kong Collection of Ming Loyalist Art On View at Metropolitan Museum This Fall
September 7, 2011 – January 2, 2012

Schedule of Exhibitions
January - June 2012

The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt by Faith Ringgold and New York City Students On View at Metropolitan Museum Beginning August 30
August 30, 2011 – January 22, 2012

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Metropolitan Museum Highlights Frans Hals Paintings from Collection in Exhibition on View Beginning July 26

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 lifetime for their immediacy and dazzling brushwork. Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum—on view from July 26, through October 10, 2011—presents 13 paintings by Hals, including two lent from private collections, and several works by other Netherlandish masters.

Mother India at Metropolitan Museum Features Depictions of the Goddess in Indian Painting

Devi, the Indian goddess, is the omnipresent embodiment of power and wisdom given expression in all of India’s ancient religions. From the beginnings of figurative representation in early India, she has been the frequent subject of sculpture and a favored subject in later devotional painting. Mother India: The Goddess in Indian Painting, to be presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from June 29 through November 27, 2011, will feature 40 works from the Museum’s collection that depict Devi in all her various aspects. Perhaps the most widely worshipped deity in all India, Devi stands alongside Shiva and Vishnu in the first rank of the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain pantheons.

Alexander McQueen's Iconic Designs in Costume Institute Retrospective at Metropolitan Museum

The spring 2011 Costume Institute exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, is on view May 4 through August 7 (new, extended closing date). The exhibition celebrates the late Mr. McQueen's extraordinary contributions to fashion. From his Central Saint Martins postgraduate collection in 1992 to his final runway presentation, which took place after his death in February 2010, Mr. McQueen challenged and expanded our understanding of fashion beyond utility to a conceptual expression of culture, politics, and identity.

SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS
MAY 2011 - JANUARY 2012

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