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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

APRIL EXHIBITIONS @ THE MET

 



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April 2022

 

Painting of a dark-skinned man laying down on a damaged rudderless fishing boat holding on to a few stalks of sugarcane and looking out to the right side of the painting. The boat is surrounded by sharks, turbulent waters and a distant waterspout.

Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents

JUST OPENED

Through July 31, 2022
The Met Fifth Avenue

Renowned for his powerful paintings of American life and scenery, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) remains a consequential figure whose art continues to appeal to broad audiences. This exhibition reconsiders Homer's work through the lens of conflict, a theme that crosses his prolific career. A persistent fascination with struggle permeates his art—from emblematic images of the Civil War and Reconstruction that examine the effects of the conflict on the landscape, soldiers, and formerly enslaved people to dramatic scenes of rescue and hunting as well as monumental seascapes and dazzling tropical works painted throughout the Atlantic world. The centerpiece of the exhibition is Homer's iconic The Gulf Stream, a painting that reveals his lifelong engagement with charged subjects of race, geopolitics, and the environment. Featuring 88 oils and watercolors, Crosscurrents represents the largest critical overview of Homer's art and life in more than a quarter of a century.

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Louis Bourgeois: Paintings" laid over a photograph of the artist poised in thought in front of an easel.

Louise Bourgeois: Paintings

JUST OPENED

Through August 7, 2022
The Met Fifth Avenue

Louise Bourgeois: Paintings is the first comprehensive exhibition of paintings produced by the iconic, French American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) between her arrival in New York in 1938 and her turn to sculpture in the late 1940s. While Bourgeois is best known today as a sculptor, it is in this early body of work—created in the decade spanning World War II—that her artistic voice emerged, establishing a core group of visual motifs that she would continue to explore and develop over the course of her celebrated, decades-long career. Informed by new archival research, the exhibition sheds light on a little-known chapter in the artist’s practice.

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Detail from Imazu Tatsuyuki's Peacock and Cherry Tree painted in greens, white, beige, and blues on a folding screen

Japan: A History of Style

CLOSING SOON

Through April 24, 2022
The Met Fifth Avenue


Dark-skinned people looking at books in a library setting.

A Selection of African American Art and Artists' Books

FINAL WEEKS

Through April 30, 2022

The Met Fifth Avenue

A photograph of two people framed from the torso up. One is dressed in sunglasses and a sweater over a collared blouse. The other is wearing a blouse and pearl necklace. Both have similarly styled curly hair.

Cruel Radiance: Photography, 1940s–1960s

FINAL WEEKS

Through May 1, 2022
The Met Fifth Avenue


Details from Mike Kelley's series of photographs "Ahh... Youth!"

Alter Egos | Projected Selves

FINAL WEEKS

Through May 1, 2022

The Met Fifth Avenue

David's "The Oath of the Tennis Court." One man is stood on a table in the center of the frame raising his hand in a vote. He is surrounded by other men all raising their hands towards him in a vote. The words "Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman" are imposed over the image.

Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman

Through May 15, 2022
The Met Fifth Avenue


Detail of Charles Ray's "Mime" sculpture

Charles Ray: Figure Ground

Through June 5, 2022
The Met Fifth Avenue


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