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• The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Nigerian National Commission for Museums and Monuments Gather to Mark the Transfer of Three Works of Art to the Nigerian National Collections

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

  The Met and NCMM also signed a memorandum of understanding formalizing their shared commitment to future exchanges of expertise and art. 

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Spring 2022 Season of Exhibitions

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

  • Highlights include presentations on Charles Ray, Jacques Louis David, Winslow Homer, and Louise Bourgeois and the return of the spring Costume Institute exhibition
  • In-person talks, tours, and performances have resumed; notable upcoming offerings include new thematic gallery talks, a concert by Angélique Kidjo, and a daring adaptation of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio by Heartbeat Opera

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Landmark Gift of $125 Million from Oscar Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang

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

  With this largest capital gift in Met history, longtime Trustee and his wife enable the renovation of the Modern Wing, which will be named the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing 

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces
  First Class of Adrienne Arsht Interns

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

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Sackler Families Announce Removal of the Family Name in Dedicated Galleries

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

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces the Establishment of the James Van Der Zee Archive in Partnership with The Studio Museum in Harlem

  Donna Van Der Zee Announces Next Chapter of Her Late Husband’s Archive

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

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Host MetFest, a Celebration Honoring the Resilience of New York City and the Importance of Art and Community, on Saturday, October 2

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

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Appoints Neil Cox as Head of The Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art

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

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Receives Gift of Contemporary Lacquerware by Artist Chung Haecho from the South Korean Government

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

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Be Early Voting Site for New York City Mayoral Election

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

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Expands Commitment to Indigenous American Art with Land Acknowledgement Plaque on Fifth Avenue Facade and New Exhibition Programming

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

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Spring Digital Performance Season Begins with Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time

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

• In America: A Lexicon of Fashion

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

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Introduces “El Met” T-Shirt, a Project by Civic Practice Partnership Artist in Residence Miguel Luciano

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

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Celebrates Black History Month with a Series of Virtual Programming

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

• The Met Hosts First Virtual Lunar New Year Festival to Celebrate Year of the Ox

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

• The Met Elects Karen Patton Seymour as New Trustee

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

• The Met Elects Three New Trustees—Ursula Burns, Amy Griffin, and David S. Winter

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

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Appoints Regina Lombardo as Chief Security Officer

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

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Live Arts Receives Endowment from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)

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

• The Met Announces Alex Da Corte as Artist for 2021 Roof Garden Commission

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

• The Met to Release Limited-Edition Print Portfolio Commissioned in Celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary

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

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Host a Global, Virtual Teens Take The Met!

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

• Google Doodle to Mark 151st Anniversary of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Founding

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

• The Met Receives Significant Gift of 18 Exceptional Contemporary Metalworks by Japanese Artists

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

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Celebrates Women’s History Month with a Series of Virtual Programming

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

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Unveils First-Ever Artist-Designed Banners for Its Fifth Avenue Facade

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

• Gerhard Richter's Poignant Birkenau Paintings

  Now on View at The Met

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

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

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

• Exhibition Spanning Gerhard Richter’s Prolific Six Decade Career to Open at The Met Breuer

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  March 4–July 5, 2020

• Met Exhibition to Focus on Artistic Legacy of Africa's Sahel

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  January 30–October 26, 2020

• Pictures, Revisited Reexamines the Art of Visual Appropriation Chronicled in the Museum’s Landmark 2009 Exhibition The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

• Cross-Cultural Connections to be Explored in Thematic Displays at The Met

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  March 6, 2020–Ongoing 

• Art for the Community: The Met's Circulating Textile Exhibitions, 1933–42 to Open October 31

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  October 31, 2020–June 13, 2021

• Costume Institute Exhibition Presents a Disrupted Timeline of Fashion History

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  October 29, 2020–February 7, 2021

• L'héritage artistique du Sahel fait l'objet d'une nouvelle exposition au MET

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  30 Janvier–10 Mai 2020

• Jacob Lawrence’s Powerful Little-Known Series Struggle: From the History of the American People on View Beginning August 29

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

• Mexican Artist Héctor Zamora’s Commissioned Work for the Cantor Roof Garden to Go on View When The Met Reopens on August 29

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  August 29–December 7, 2020

• In Pursuit of Fashion:
  The Sandy Schreier Collection
  

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  November 27, 2019–September 27, 2020

• Monumental Paintings by Kent Monkman Unveiled at The Met

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  December 19, 2019–April 19, 2021

• Una exposición en The Met explorará los logros artísticos de las civilizaciones ancestrales del Caribe

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  16 de diciembre de 2019–27 de junio de 2021

• Exhibition at The Met to Explore Superb Artistic Achievements of Ancestral Caribbean Civilizations

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  December 16, 2019–June 27, 2021

• Se inaugurará en el Met la primera gran exposición sobre el pintor afrohispano Juan de Pareja, el modelo del icónico retrato de Diego Velázquez

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:00 a.m.

  Fechas de la exposición: Del 3 de abril al 16 de julio de 2023

• The Met Presents the Dynamic Work of Cecily Brown in Focused Career Survey

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:00 a.m.

  Exhibition Dates: April 4–December 3, 2023 

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Honors Pamela Liebman at 2022 Real Estate Council Benefit

  Thursday, November 10, 2022, 5:00 a.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art presentará la primera gran exposición de arte maya de Estados Unidos en una década

  Thursday, October 20, 2022, 4:00 a.m.

• Costume Institute’s Spring Exhibition Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty to Open at The Met on May 5 d

  Friday, September 30, 2022, 4:00 a.m.

  Member Previews: May 2 and 4, 2023

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Renovate Its Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

  Thursday, September 22, 2022, 4:00 a.m.

• Exhibition at The Met Explores Themes of the Natural World in Chinese Art

  Saturday, September 10, 2022, 4:00 a.m.

  September 10, 2022 – January 29, 2023

• Landmark Exhibition of Ceramic Objects from Old Edgefield District of South Carolina Opens September 9 at The Met

  Friday, September 9, 2022, 4:00 a.m.

  September 9, 2022–February 5, 2023