MET Exhibitions: March 2023

 

Spring 2023   Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter OPENING SOON April 3–July 16, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue This exhibition offers an unprecedented look at the life and artistic achievements of seventeenth-century Afro-Hispanic painter Juan de Pareja (ca. 1608–1670). Largely known today as the subject of The Met's iconic portrait by Diego Velázquez, Pareja was enslaved in Velázquez's studio for over two decades before becoming an artist in his own right. This presentation is the first to tell his story and examine the role of enslaved artisanal labor and a multiracial society in the art and material culture of Spain's so-called "Golden Age." Harlem Renaissance collector and scholar Arturo Schomburg was vital to the recovery of Pareja's work and serves as a thread connecting seventeenth-century Spain with twentieth-century New York, providing a lens through which to view the multiple histories that have been written about Pareja. Learn more →   Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid OPENING SOON April 4–December 3, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue For more than twenty-five years, Cecily Brown (b. 1969) has transfixed viewers with sumptuous color, bravura brushwork, and complex narratives that relate to some of Western art history's grandest and oldest themes. After moving to New York from London in the 1990s, she revived painting for a new generation alongside a handful of other artists—many of them also women—at the very moment critics were questioning its import and relevance. The first full-fledged museum survey of Brown's work in New York since she made the city her home, Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid assembles a select group of some fifty paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, and monotypes from across her career to explore the intertwined themes of still life, memento mori, mirroring, and vanitas—symbolic depictions of human vanity or life's brevity—that have propelled her dynamic and impactful practice for decades. Learn more → More Exhibitions Anxiety and Hope in Japanese Art OPENING SOON April 8, 2023–July 14, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue The Roof Garden Commission: Lauren Halsey OPENING SOON April 18–October 22, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty UPCOMING May 5–July 16, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue Van Gogh's Cypresses UPCOMING May 22–August 27, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue   Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art CLOSING SOON Through April 2, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue Water Memories CLOSING SOON Through April 2, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue   Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art CLOSING SOON Through April 16, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue Innocence and Experience: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints Through May 16, 2023 The Met Fifth Avenue See all current exhibitions → Women's History Month at The Met Celebrate the vital contributions women make to our lives, art, and society. Learn more → Your Digital Guide to The Met Enhance your visit to The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters with the Bloomberg Connects app. Explore 100 highlights from The Met collection with our free digital guide. Download now → Plan Your Visit 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. Masks are strongly recommended, but not required. Read our visitor guidelines. Buy your tickets now → Membership →       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 on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter, Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid, The Roof Garden Commission: Lauren Halsey, Anxiety and Hope in Japanese Art, Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty, Van Gogh's Cypresses, Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art, Water Memories, Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art, and Innocence and Experience: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints. Bloomberg Connects is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies. Images: Juan de Pareja (Spanish, ca. 1608–1670). The Calling of Saint Matthew, 1661. Oil on canvas, 88 1/2 in. x 10 ft. 8 in. (225 x 325 cm). Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (P001041). Photo: © Photographic Archive Museo Nacional del Prado | Cecily Brown. Maid in a Landscape, 2021. Oil on linen. Private collection. Courtesy the artist, photo by Genevieve Hanson | Detail of "Universal Gateway," Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra, Japan, Kamakura Period (1185–1333), dated 1257. Handscroll; ink, color, and gold on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Louisa Eldridge McBurney Gift, 1953 | Left: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890). The Starry Night (detail), 1889. Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1/4 in. (73.7 x 92.1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (by exchange), 1941; Conservation was made possible by the Bank of America Art Conservation Project. Image © The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY; right: Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890). Wheat Field with Cypresses (detail), 1889. Oil on canvas, 28 7/8 x 36 3/4 in. (73.2 x 93.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Annenberg Foundation Gift, 1993 (1993.132) | Maya artist. Whistle with the Maize God emerging from a flower (detail), Mexico, Late Classic period (A.D. 600–900). Ceramic, pigment. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979 (1979.206.728) | © Cara Romero (Native American (Chemehuevi), born 1977). Water Memory (detail), 2021. Photograph, Framed: 41 × 41 in. (104.1 × 104.1 cm) | Martinus Rørbye. View from the Citadel Ramparts in Copenhagen by Moonlight (detail), 1839. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Eugene V. Thaw, 2007 | William Blake, Pity (detail), ca. 1795. Relief etching, printed in color and finished with pen and ink and watercolor, sheet: 16 5/8 x 20 3/4in. (42.2 x 52.7cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Mrs. Robert W. Goelet, 1958, transferred from European Paintings (58.603)