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Art in your inbox 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 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 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 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 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 CLICK TITLES FOR MORE INFORMATION Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 CLOSING SOON Through January 26, 2025 The Met Fifth Avenue Paris through the Eyes of Saint-Aubin CLOSING SOON Through February 4, 2025 The Met Fifth Avenue   Celebrating the Year of the Snake JUST OPENED Through February 10, 2026 The Met Fifth Avenue 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 UPCOMING February 28–September 28, 2025 The Met Fifth Avenue Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie UPCOMING March 25–August 17, 2025 The Met Fifth Avenue From The Met Store   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. See our visitor guidelines for the latest health and safety updates. 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        Shop     Manage Your Preferences   |   Unsubscribe     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. Your support allows the Museum to collect, conserve, and present 5,000 years of world art. Donate now. Comments are welcome at metmuseum_newsletter@metmuseum.org. *Savings off original, regular, and/or already-reduced prices. Clearance items are not eligible for sitewide promotions, discounts, and/or other offers. Interim markdowns may have been taken. Quantities are limited. Void where prohibited. All Clearance merchandise is final sale and cannot be returned or exchanged. 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)