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Conversations with Max Hollein: 2024/2025

Conversations with Max Hollein: 2024/2025

Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director and Chief Executive Officer of The Met, invites you to explore the Museum’s dynamic season of exhibitions and contemporary art commissions. Watch now →

 

 

Meet the Artist—The Great Hall Commission: Tong Yang-Tze, Dialogue

Meet the Artist—The Great Hall Commission: Tong Yang-Tze, Dialogue

Go behind the scenes with artist Tong Yang-Tze as she discusses The Great Hall Commission: Tong Yang-Tze, Dialogue. Watch now →

 

 

The American Wing at 100

The American Wing at 100

The American Wing celebrates its 100th anniversary with a reinstallation of its extensive collection of art and design. Join the curatorial team to explore three floors of newly interpreted galleries that reveal fascinating connections across the Wing’s increasingly hemispheric holdings. Watch now →

 

 

The Costs: An Original Poem by Hannah Sanghee Park

The Costs: An Original Poem by Hannah Sanghee Park

Poet Hannah Sanghee Park responds to The Facade Commission: Lee Bul, Long Tail Halo: "I wanted to answer her narrative capacity by describing the sculptures, moving back and forth between illustration and association." Read now →

 

 

Fred Wilson's Memories of Egypt

Fred Wilson's Memories of Egypt

Learn more about the artist Fred Wilson's relationship with the art and culture of Egypt, from his youth visiting his father in Cairo to later encounters with Martin Bernal's controversial text Black Athena (1987). Read now →

 

Exhibition Highlights

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Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350

Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350

CLOSING SOON

Through January 26, 2025
The Met Fifth Avenue


Paris through the Eyes of Saint-Aubin

Paris through the Eyes of Saint-Aubin

CLOSING SOON

Through February 4, 2025
The Met Fifth Avenue

 

Celebrating the Year of the Snake

Celebrating the Year of the Snake

JUST OPENED

Through February 10, 2026
The Met Fifth Avenue


Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature

Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature

UPCOMING

February 8–May 11, 2025
The Met Fifth Avenue

 

Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900

Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900

UPCOMING

February 28–September 28, 2025
The Met Fifth Avenue


Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie

Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie

UPCOMING

March 25–August 17, 2025
The Met Fifth Avenue

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For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit The Great Hall Commission: Tong Yang-Tze, Dialogue, The American Wing at 100, The Genesis Facade Commission: Lee Bul, Long Tail Halo, Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now, Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350, Paris through the Eyes of Saint-Aubin, Celebrating the Year of the Snake, Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature, Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900, and Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie.

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Images: Fred Wilson (American, born 1954) Grey Area (Brown version), 1993 Pigment, plaster, and wood, overall: 20 x 84 in. (50.8 x 213.4 cm) Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of William K. Jacobs, Jr. and bequest of Richard J. Kempe, by exchange (2008.6a–j) | Duccio di Buoninsegna, The Raising of Lazarus (detail), 1310–11. Tempera and gold on panel. Kimbell Art Museum, 1975 | Gabriel de Saint-Aubin (French, 1724–1780). Trade Card for Périer, Ironmonger, 1767. Black chalk, pen and black and brown inks, brush and gray and brown wash. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift of Stephen A. Geiger, in memory of his parents, Howard W. Geiger and Mildred K. Geiger, and in honor of his brother, Julian R. Geiger, 2022 (PG.Geiger.2022.9) | Chinese zodiac figure: Snake (detail), China, Jin (1115–1234) to Yuan dynasty (1279–1368), 13th century. Grey earthenware with pigment. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Charlotte C. and John C. Weber Collection, Gift of Charlotte C. and John C. Weber, 1994 (1994.605.38) | Caspar David Friedrich (German, 1774–1840). Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, ca. 1817. Oil on canvas, 37 3/8 × 29 1/2 in. (94.8 × 74.8 cm). Hamburger Kunsthalle, on permanent loan from the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, acquired 1970 (HK-5161). Photo Elke Walford || Ewer (Brocca) (detail), Medici Porcelain Manufactory, ca. 1575–80. Soft-paste porcelain. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.2046)