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• Career-spanning Survey of One of the Century's Most Radical Painters, Alice Neel, Opens March 22 at The Met

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

• Spiritual Pop: Art in 1960s Iran

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

  Exhibition Dates: May 28-December 5, 2021

• 幽居有伴 – 中國畫中的隱逸與交遊

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

• Met Exhibition to Explore Francisco Goya’s Prolific Activity as a Draftsman and Printmaker through Approximately 100 Works from the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

  February 12–May 2, 2021

• Colossal New Works by Carol Bove Now on View on The Met Facade

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

• Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

• Costume Institute Two-Part Exhibition to Focus on American Fashion

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

  Part One: September 18, 2021–September 5, 2022
  Part Two: May 5, 2022–September 5, 2022

• The Facade Commission: Carol Bove, The séances aren't helping
  Artist's Statement
  

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

• Shell and Resin: Korean Mother-of-Pearl and Lacquer

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

• Japan: A History of Style to Showcase Transformative Recent Gifts and Acquisitions that Expand The Met’s Collection of Japanese Art

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

  Japanese

• Modern Times: British Prints, 1913–1939

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

  Exhibition Dates: November 1, 2021–January 9, 2022

  
  

• Actors and Courtesans in Ukiyo-e:
  Japanese Prints from the Lee E. Dirks Collection

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

• Exhibition of Karl Bodmer’s Watercolor Portraits of Indigenous Americans to Open April 5 at The Met

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

  April 5–July 25, 2021

• Exhibition of Magnificent Modern and Contemporary Ceramics Celebrates Gift from Robert A. Ellison Jr. to The Met

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

• Groundbreaking Exhibition to Explore How Women Photographers Worldwide Shaped the Medium from the 1920s to the 1950s

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

  July 2–October 3, 2021

• Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

• Alex Da Corte’s Enchanting Commission for The Met’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden to Open April 16

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

• First Major Reinstallation of Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection, Opens April 12

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

• Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 8:55 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Winter and Spring 2023 Exhibitions and More

  Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 5:00 a.m.

• New York City Scholastic Art & Writing Awards to Be Exhibited at The Met

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met Store Launches Exclusive Cosmetics and Apparel with PAT McGRATH LABS in Celebration of The Costume Institute’s Spring 2018 Exhibition, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Mathew M. Wambua Elected a Trustee at The Met

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Wendy Yu Endows Lead Curatorial Position at The Costume Institute

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Earliest American Porcelain Teapot Acquired by The Met

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met to Host Fourth Global Museum Leaders Colloquium in April

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met Hosts Annual Lunar New Year Festival to Celebrate Year of the Dog

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Over 700,000 Visitors Make Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer The Met’s 10th Most Visited Exhibition in Its History

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met Announces Its First-Ever Endowed Curatorial Position for Japanese Decorative Arts

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces
  Its 2018–19 Season of MetLiveArts

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Shine New Light on European Paintings Collection through Skylights Project

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met Launches a New Immersive Program with Artists and Communities Committed to Social Change

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• 1,659,647 Visitors to Costume Institute’s Heavenly Bodies Show at Met Fifth Avenue and Met Cloisters Make It the Most Visited Exhibition in The Met’s History

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Costume Institute’s Spring 2019 Exhibition to Focus on Camp in Fashion

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2018–19 Season of MetLiveArts

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Frick Collection Planning Collaboration To Enable Frick to Use Whitney Museum of American Art’s Breuer Building During Frick’s Upgrade and Renovation

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Soprano Julia Bullock Makes Her Premiere as The Met's Artist in Residence

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met Elects New Trustees Charles M. Diker, Ming Chu Hsu, and Edward Pick

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Max Hollein Named Next Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met Welcomes 1,000,000th Visitor to The Costume Institute’s Heavenly Bodies Exhibition

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Juan Gris’s The Musician’s Table Acquired through New Gift from Leonard A. Lauder—Now on View

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met Elects New Trustees Aaron I. Fleischman and Sacha Lainovic

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Andrea Bayer Named Deputy Director for Collections and Administration at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met to Host Next Teens Take The Met! on Friday, November 9

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Museum-wide Festival to Celebrate Cultural Traditions Across Generations

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Masterpieces of Japanese Art from Collection of Mary and Cheney Cowles Donated to The Met, Freer|Sackler, and Portland Art Museum

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Trailblazing Findings on the Properties of Daguerreotypes Presented in Research Conducted by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The University of New Mexico

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Lisa Silverman Meyers Named Head of Licensing and Partnerships at The Met

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met’s Renovated Galleries for British Decorative Arts and Design to Open on March 2, 2020

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met Welcomed More Than 7 Million Visitors in Fiscal Year 2019

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met Hosts Annual Lunar New Year Festival to Celebrate Year of the Pig

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• In Honor of World Refugee Day, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Joins the International Rescue Committee’s Global Campaign to Spotlight Contributions By Refugees

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Marble Sculpture by Michelangelo to Remain at The Met for Another 10 Years, on Loan from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• P.S. Art Exhibition at The Met to Feature Juried Display of Art by NYC Public School Students

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met Elects New Trustee, Gabrielle Sulzberger

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met to Offer Federal Employees Free Admission During Government Shutdown

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Leonard A. Lauder Lecture Series on Modern Art Launches at Met Museum

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces MetLiveArts 2019–20 Season

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Teens Take The Met!—Museum-wide Evening of Activities, Performances, and Giveaways—Returns on Friday, May 31

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Update of Gift Acceptance Policies

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met to Honor Jonathan L. Mechanic at 2019 Real Estate Council Benefit

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Fellowship Program Announces 2019–2020 Fellowship Appointments

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Battle of the Legends Vogueing Competition Will Highlight Pride Month Celebrations at The Met

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art Launches Digital Archives Initiative

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Met Receives Major Gift of Late 19th-Century American Decorative Arts and Paintings from Barrie and Deedee Wigmore for Museum’s 150th Anniversary

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Best Spatial Projects of 2018 Presented in All-Day Symposium "In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in a Day" on January 19, 2019

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Returns Coffin to Egypt

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Met Welcomes Nearly 7.4 Million Visitors in 2018

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met Announces Celebrations for Its 150th-Anniversary Year in 2020

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Recently Acquired Ancient Roman Wellhead Now on View at The Met

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met Announces Major New Contemporary Commissions and Installations

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• New York City Scholastic Art & Writing Awards to Be Exhibited at The Met

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met Elects New Trustee, John Pritzker

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces New Appointments

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Major Gift to The Met of Peter Doig’s Modern Masterpiece Two Trees

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Nita Ambani Elected to the Board of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art Announces Two Distinguished Scholars and Four Fellows for the 2019–20 Academic Year

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art Signs Agreement with Korea’s Ministry of Culture

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Receives Exceptional Bequest from Jayne Wrightsman, Trustee Emerita and Generous Benefactor

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Met to Extend Display of Wangechi Mutu Sculptures Through June 2020

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Teens Take The Met! Invites Thousands of Teens for Museum-Wide Evening of Activities on
  Friday, November 8

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Newly Renovated Musical Instruments Gallery Opens Friday

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Alicja Kwade Named Artist for The Met's 2019 Cantor Roof Garden Commission

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met, Microsoft, and MIT Explore the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on How Global Audiences Connect with Art

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Introduces a New Dining Experience with Michelin-Starred Chef John Fraser

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Two Events at The Met in Wake of Notre-Dame Fire

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Plans for Reopening

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Irving Penn's Portrait of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Now on View at The Met in Tribute to the Life and Legacy of the Late Justice

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Host First Virtual Teens Take The Met

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met Receives Promised Gift of Over 700 Extraordinary Photographs from the 1840s to the 1910s from the William L. Schaeffer Collection

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Launch of Timed Entrance Ticketing and Bike Valet Initiative in Advance of August 29 Reopening

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Discovery of Missing Painting by Iconic American Modernist Jacob Lawrence

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met Acquires Commissioned Works by Cree Artist Kent Monkman

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Launches New Online Programming and Social Media Initiatives

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces New Appointments

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Fellowship Program Announces 2020–2021 Fellowship Appointments

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art and New York State Department of Financial Services Announce the Return of a 16th-Century Silver Stem Cup to the Heirs of the Eugen Gutmann Estate

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Names Abraham Thomas as Daniel Brodsky Curator of Modern Architecture, Design, and Decorative Arts in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met Acquires Rare Inscribed Vessel by David Drake

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Enhanced Online Programs and Social Media Initiatives

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.