What's On at The Met Breuer This March

Exterior of The Met Breuer, designed by Hungarian architect Marcel Breuer, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan

This March at The Met Breuer, Home Is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquisitions in Context and From Géricault to Rockburne: Selections from the Michael & Juliet Rubenstein Gift continue their runs. Gerhard Richter: Painting After All opens March 4.

Gerhard Richter: Painting After All

Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932). Ice (detail), 1981. Oil on canvas, 27 9/16 x 39 3/8 in. (70 x 100 cm). Collection of Ruth McLoughlin, Monaco. © Gerhard Richter 2019

On view at The Met Breuer, Floors 3 and 4, March 4–July 5

Devoted to one of the greatest artists of our time, Gerhard Richter: Painting After All will consider Richter's six-decade-long preoccupation with the dual means of representation and abstraction to explore the material, conceptual and historical implications of painting. Spanning the entirety of Richter's prolific and innovative career, the exhibition will present over one hundred works that focus on his specific commitment to the medium, as well as his related interests in photography, digital reproduction, and sculpture.

Major loans include the series Cage (2006) and Birkenau (2014), twin cores of the exhibition, as well as the recent work House of Cards (2020), all of which will be exhibited in the United States for the first time

Learn more about the exhibition and explore the Primer.

Exhibition Tours

Tuesday, March 17, 12:30–1:30 pm
The Met Breuer – Floor 4
Free with Museum admission

Friday, March 20, 6:30–7:30 pm
The Met Breuer – Floor 4
Free with Museum admission

Tuesday, March 24, 12:30–1:30 pm
The Met Breuer – Floor 4
Free with Museum admission

Saturday, March 28, 12:30–1:30 pm
The Met Breuer – Floor 4
Free with Museum admission

Tuesday, March 31, 12:30–1:30 pm
The Met Breuer – Floor 4
Free with Museum admission

Family Tours

Saturday, March 4, 11 am–12 pm
The Met Breuer – Lobby
Free with Museum admission; admission is free for children under 12 with an adult. Tour tickets are required for each participant.

Saturday, March 4, 2–3 pm
The Met Breuer – Lobby
Free with Museum admission; admission is free for children under 12 with an adult. Tour tickets are required for each participant.

Access

Seeing Through Drawing—Access for Visitors Who Are Blind or Partially Sighted
Saturday, March 14, 11 am–1 pm
The Met Breuer – Lobby
Free; reservations are required

Met Signs Tour in ASL
Saturday, March 28, 2–3 pm
The Met Breuer – Lobby
Free; reservations are required

For Members

All Members Preview Day
Tuesday, March 3, 10:00 am–5:30 pm
The Met Breuer – Floor 3
Free with Membership

The Met After Hours
Tuesday, March 10, 6–9 pm
The Met Breuer – Museum-wide
For Members with Evening Hours, Members with Opening Nights, and Patrons

From Géricault to Rockburne: Selections from the Michael and Juliet Rubenstein Collection

Installation view of From Géricault to Rockburne: Selections from the Michael and Juliet Rubenstein Collection

On view at The Met Breuer, Floor 5, through March 29

In 1954, at the age of seventeen, the architect Michael A. Rubenstein bought his first work of art. Today, the collection, largely formed with his late wife Juliet van Vliet, spans two centuries and consists mostly of drawings and watercolors, either lyrical or geometrical. One hundred and sixty works from the collection are promised gifts to The Met, to be shared by the departments of Drawings and Prints and Modern and Contemporary Art. This exhibition will highlight and celebrate some fifty works from the gift, ranging from a drawing by French artist Théodore Géricault from about 1818—the earliest work in the show—to a wax-crayon drawing done in 2019 by a friend of Rubenstein, artist Dorothea Rockburne.

Learn more about the exhibition.

For Members

The Met After Hours
Tuesday, March 10, 6–9 pm
The Met Breuer – Museum-wide
For Members with Evening Hours, Members with Opening Nights, and Patrons

Home Is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquisitions in Context

Installation view of Home Is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquisitions in Context

On view at The Met Breuer, Floor 2

Home Is a Foreign Place highlights recent acquisitions of modern and contemporary art from Latin America, the Middle East, North Africa, and South and Southeast Asia, alongside works by iconic modern American artists from The Met collection. Taking its title from Zarina's 1999 suite of thirty-six woodcuts, this exhibition features art that explores the meanings of "home" and "place" in our increasingly interwoven globe, whether by necessity or choice.

Contemporary art and earlier avant-garde movements of modern art do not have a single origin, nor do they develop in isolation. Since the 1940s, artists have sought new forms of expression as they have lived through culturally transformative events, from devastating wars, social and humanitarian injustices, and mass migration to economic and environmental change. These histories continue to impact and inform the art of our time. In this thematic display, works are united by shared engagements with language, architecture, space, and politics that demonstrate the movement of ideas and identities across cultural and national boundaries. The resulting visual conversations emphasize the significance of parallel artistic impulses in the world and over time, while remaining attentive to the specific local and historical circumstances of their making.

Learn more about the exhibition and take an online tour of its galleries.

For Members

The Met After Hours
Tuesday, March 10, 6–9 pm
The Met Breuer – Museum-wide
For Members with Evening Hours, Members with Opening Nights, and Patrons

The Met Breuer Architecture Tour

Discover more about this iconic building, its remarkable history, and its architect. Hear from insiders, experts, and even Marcel Breuer himself. Learn more.