Met News: November 2021

November 2021   A Virtual Tour of Surrealism Beyond Borders Nearly from its inception, Surrealism has had an international scope, but knowledge of the movement has been formed primarily through a Western European focus. This exhibition reconsiders the true "movement" of Surrealism across boundaries of geography and chronology. Take a virtual tour of Surrealism Beyond Borders, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue through January 30, 2022. Watch now →     Remembering Ana Mendieta Two filmmakers reflect on the pioneering artist, whose feminist thought informed her understanding of the natural world. Read and watch now →     Homage to Magritte, 1974 | From the Vaults Anita Thacher's enigmatic short film "Homage to Magritte" (1974) comprises five vignettes inspired by the painter's disarming sensibility, in which the eye's assumptions are tested, troubled, and subtly refuted. Watch now →     The First Monday in June: My Time as MuSe Intern at The Costume Institute Take a glimpse into the life of an intern at The Costume Institute Library. Read more →     How To Look Like a 17th-century Woodcut Print Transform yourself into a seventeenth-century Italian work of art with a step-by-step makeup tutorial and art history lesson on chiaroscuro woodcuts. Watch now →   MetLiveArts   The Ballad of the Brown King: Christmas with the Dessoff Choirs Sunday, December 19, 2021, 3 pm The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium The Dessoff Choirs and Orchestra welcomes the season with a Christmas cantata by Margaret Bonds, The Ballad of the Brown King. They are joined by internationally recognized soloists: soprano Laquita Mitchell; tenor Noah Stewart; and mezzo-soprano Lucia Bradford. They also perform Black Christ of the Andes and other sublime, rarely heard choral works by Mary Lou Williams. Tickets start at $25 (includes Museum admission). Buy tickets now →   Exhibition Highlights Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room JUST OPENED Ongoing The Met Fifth Avenue Modern Times: British Prints, 1913–1939 JUST OPENED Through January 9, 2022 The Met Fifth Avenue Cruel Radiance: Photography, 1940s–1960s OPENING SOON November 22, 2021–May 1, 2022 The Met Fifth Avenue Alter Egos | Projected Selves OPENING SOON November 22, 2021–May 2, 2022 The Met Fifth Avenue Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo CLOSING SOON Through November 28, 2021 The Met Fifth Avenue Companions in Solitude: Reclusion and Communion in Chinese Art Through August 14, 2022 The Met Fifth Avenue See all current exhibitions → Plan Your Visit The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters are open! See the Plan Your Visit page for more information about making a reservation and buying tickets in advance. Please note our current opening days and hours for each location. In accordance with New York City mandate, the Museum requires all visitors age 12 and older to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Masks are required for all visitors. Please read the visitor guidelines page to learn about our new health and safety protocols. Buy or reserve your tickets now → Become a Member →           The Met Fifth Avenue 1000 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10028 The Met Cloisters 99 Margaret Corbin Drive Fort Tryon Park New York, NY 10040 metmuseum.org       Explore        Membership        Donate     For more information about the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, see Surrealism Beyond Borders, Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, Modern Times: British Prints, 1913–1939, Cruel Radiance: Photography, 1940s–1960s, Alter Egos | Projected Selves, Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo, and Companions in Solitude: Reclusion and Communion in Chinese Art. The Ballad of the Brown King: Christmas with the Dessoff Choirs is made possible by The Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation and Douglas Dockery Thomas. Additional support is provided by the Adrienne Arsht Fund for Resilience through Art. For MetLiveArts program funders, visit metmuseum.org/metliveartssupport. Your support allows the Museum to collect, conserve, and present 5,000 years of world art. Donate now. MetLiveArts performances require proof of full vaccination (at least 14 days after the second dose of a two-dose series vaccine, or at least 14 days after a single-dose vaccine). The Met may require additional safety measures for these performances and will communicate such measures to confirmed guests in advance. Children under the age of 12 may not attend performances at this time. Comments are welcome at metmuseum_newsletter@metmuseum.org. Images: The Dessoff Choirs. Photo by Sekou Luke | Roberto Lugo, Queen Abolition, 2021. Digital illustration. | Cyril E. Power (British, London 1872–1951 London). The Eight, 1930. Linocut, 13 in. x 9 1/4 in. (33 x 23.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Leslie and Johanna Garfield, 2019 (2019.415). © Estate of Cyril Power. All Rights Reserved, 2020 / Bridgeman Images | Walker Evans (American, 1903–1975). Corner of State and Randolph Streets, Chicago (detail), 1946. Gelatin silver print, 6 1/4 x 5 3/16 in. (15.9 x 13.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 1990 (1990.1045). © Walker Evans Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. | Mike Kelley (American, 1954–2012). Ahh… Youth! (detail), 1991. Silver dye bleach prints, sheet: 23 5/8 x 16 1/8 in. (60 x 41 cm), each, framed: 26 1/8 in. x 18 3/4 in. x 3/4 in. (66.4 x 47.6 x 1.9 cm), each. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Helena and Per Skarstedt, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2019 (2019.584a–h). © 2021 Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All Rights Reserved / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY | Jules Tavernier (American, born France, 1844–1889). Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California (detail), 1878. Oil on canvas, 48 x 72 1/4 in. (121.9 x 183.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund, 2016 (2016.135) | Attributed to Jiang Song (Chinese, first half of 16th century). Winter Landscape, first half of 16th century, Ming Dynasty (1368–1644). Handscroll; ink on paper, H. 12 1/4 in. (31.1 cm), W. 277 in. (703.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Seymour Fund, 1955 (55.124)