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Art Work: Artists Working at The Met

June 6–19, 2022
Since 1935, staff members working as a part of The Met community, many of whom are accomplished artists, have shared their creative contributions with each other on a regular basis. This year we are delighted to open this presentation of their work…
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Art Work: Artists Working at The Met

November 18–December 1, 2024
Since 1935, staff members working as a part of The Met community, many of whom are accomplished artists, have shared their creative contributions with each other on a regular basis. We are delighted to open this presentation of their work to the pu…
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Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now

November 17, 2024–February 17, 2025
Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now examines how Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt through visual art, sculpture, literature, music, scholarship, religion, politics, and performance. I…
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The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met

May 24, 2021–January 7, 2024
The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met showcases the Museum’s important and rare collection of third- to eighth-century art from Egypt and reevaluates it through the lens of late antique ideas about abundance, virtue, and shared clas…
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Cycladic Art

Ongoing
The Leonard N. Stern Collection on Loan from the Hellenic Republic The display of the Leonard N. Stern Collection of Cycladic Art at The Met is the result of a historic 50-year partnership among The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ministry of Cult…
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Lineages: Korean Art at The Met

November 7, 2023–October 20, 2024
In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Met’s Arts of Korea gallery, Lineages: Korean Art at The Met showcases highlights of the Museum’s collection paired with important international loans of Korean modern and contemporary art. This…
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Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts

December 10, 2021–March 6, 2022
Pink castles, talking sofas, and objects coming to life: what sounds like fantasies from the pioneering animation of Walt Disney Animation Studios were in fact the figments of the colorful salons of Rococo Paris. The Met’s first-ever exhibition exp…
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Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt

Through January 10, 2027
Artists and artisans have been intrigued and inspired by the topic of death and visions of life thereafter for millennia. Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt brings together modern-day works that reckon with death and visualize the …
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Chinese bronzes made from the 12th to the 19th century are an important but often overlooked category of Chinese art. In ancient China, bronze vessels were emblems of ritual and power. A millennium later, in the period from 1100 to 1900, such vesse…
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Past Exhibition

Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art

March 5–June 16, 2024
The process of creating textiles has long been a springboard for artistic invention. In Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art, two extraordinary bodies of work separated by at least 500 years are brought together to explore the striking con…

A selection of approximately 150 works from one of the world's finest collections of ancient Egyptian decorative arts.

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Hatshepsut

A fascinating selection of works created during the prosperous reign of Hatshepsut, the great female pharaoh of Egypt's 18th Dynasty.

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Gifts for the Gods

The first exhibition to focus on the art and significance of Egyptian metal statuary, which is connected with the drama and intimacy of ancient temples.

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This exhibition—drawn entirely from The Met collection—compares foliate patterns and roundels that are found on textiles from the Late Roman, Byzantine, and Early Islamic periods in Egypt to similar motifs in postcards by the Wiener Werkstätte and on garments designed by Mariano Fortuny (1871–1949).

On view November 11, 2016–October 1, 2017

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Gallery Eight

Most ancient Egyptians lived in the narrow, lush floodplains along the Nile River and the broad expanse of the Nile Delta.

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This exhibition features thirty works from The Met's early twentieth-century excavation of the Kharga Oasis in Egypt, revealing a richly diverse society between the third and seventh centuries A.D. that integrated Egyptian, Greek, and Roman culture and art.

On view October 11, 2017–April 11, 2021