MET NEWS: DECEMBER 2021

 

December 2021   Celebrate the Holiday Season at The Met Enjoy jubilant performances, festive displays, holiday shopping, and more. Explore The Holiday Guide →     VIDEO PREVIEW Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts Watch a preview of the exhibition Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue from December 10, 2021, through March 6, 2022. Watch now →     VIRTUAL OPENING Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, like any of The Met's period rooms, is a fabrication of a domestic space that assembles furnishings and objects to create a fiction of authenticity. Rather than affirm a fixed moment in time, however, this structure reimagines the immersive experience of the period room by embracing the African diasporic belief that the past, present, and future are interconnected. Watch now →     Committing to the Beauty of Lenape Art How Joe Baker reclaimed a historic artform in order to assert his Lenape identity. Read more →     Paolo Bordignon Plays The Met's Appleton Organ Watch a performance in the Musical Instruments galleries on The Met's Appleton Organ. Built in 1830, this organ is the oldest and finest extant product of the renowned Boston craftsman Thomas Appleton (1785-1872). Watch now →   MetLiveArts   Angélique Kidjo at The Met December 27 and 28, 2021, 6 and 8:30 pm The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing Extolled as "Africa's premier diva" (Time), four-time Grammy Award–winner Angélique Kidjo comes to The Met in an intimate, site-specific program set in the Museum’s deinstalled galleries devoted to the arts of Africa. Kidjo's unique performance anticipates the reimagining and reinstallation of the space, underscoring the aesthetic qualities, authorship, provenance, and cultural context of the art to be displayed. Tickets start at $65 (includes Museum admission). Buy tickets now →   New Exhibitions (CLICK ON TITLES FOR MORE INFO) Cruel Radiance: Photography, 1940s–1960s JUST OPENED Through May 1, 2022 The Met Fifth Avenue Alter Egos | Projected Selves JUST OPENED Through May 1, 2022 The Met Fifth Avenue Shell and Resin: Korean Mother-of-Pearl and Lacquer OPENING SOON December 13, 2021–July 5, 2022 The Met Fifth Avenue The African Origin of Civilization OPENING SOON December 14, 2021–Ongoing The Met Fifth Avenue See all current exhibitions → From The Met Store   Plan Your Visit The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters are open! See the Plan Your Visit page for more information about 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 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 Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts, Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, Cruel Radiance: Photography, 1940s–1960s, Alter Egos | Projected Selves, Shell and Resin: Korean Mother-of-Pearl and Lacquer, and The African Origin of Civilization. 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: Wilson Alwyn Bentley (American, 1865–1931). [Snow Crystal] (multiple), 1890s–1920s. Gelatin silver prints. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Josh Rosenthal Fund, 2005 (2005.55.3) and Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2015. (2015.157; 2015.194; 2015.179; 2015.165; 2015.154; 2015.155; 2015.152; 2015.164; 2015.153; 2015.161; 2015.187; 2015.185; and 2015.193) | Sèvres Manufactory. Covered vase in the form of a tower (vase en tour; detail), ca. 1762.  Soft-paste porcelain. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, The Arabella D. Huntington Memorial Art Collection. Image courtesy of the Huntington Art Museum, San Marino, California | Marquee image of Joe Baker courtesy Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center. | Angélique Kidjo. Photo by Fabrice Mabillo. | 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 | Trefoil-shaped covered box with decoration of chrysanthemums (detail), ca. 12th century.  Lacquer inlaid with mother-of-pearl and tortoise shell over pigment, brass wire,  1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm), L. 4 in (10.2 cm), D. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher Fund, 1925 (25.215.41a, b) | The Royal Acquaintances Memi and Sabu, ca. 2575–2465 B.C. Egyptian. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1948 (48.111) Seated Couple, 18th–early 19th century. Dogon artist: Mali. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Lester Wunderman, 1977 (1977.394.15)