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Through April 22, 2012
Through May 6, 2012
Through January 2, 2012
Through January 8, 2012
Through January 29, 2012
Through February 5, 2012
Through March 4, 2012
Permanent Installation
Through November 27, 2011
The modern and contemporary artists in this installation have translated their fascination with paper into works that defy conventional definitions of drawing. Featured are thirty-six works on paper by twenty-four artists, including Marcel Duchamp, Jean Dubuffet, Franz Kline, Kara Walker, and Kiki Smith.
The goddess (devi) is both the source and the affirmation of life. In early Indian religions, this concept is deified in a variety of forms.
Through December 5, 2011
On view are highlights from the Museum's Korean collection, including ceramics, metalwork, lacquer, and sculpture, dating from about the fourth century B.C. to 2008.
The title of the exhibition comes from a song of 1970 by Neil Young; the verses contrast a romanticized past, a present of squandered plenty, and an uncertain future.
Romare Bearden's vibrant mural-size tableau The Block (1971) is on view as part of a centennial celebration of the artist's birth.
The Museum continues a longstanding holiday tradition with the presentation of its Christmas tree, a favorite of New Yorkers and visitors from around the world. A vivid eighteenth-century Neapolitan Nativity scene—embellished with a profuse array of diminutive, lifelike attendant figures and silk-robed angels hovering above—adorns the candlelit spruce. Recorded music and lighting ceremonies add to the enjoyment of the holiday display.
Through January 16, 2012
Through January 22, 2012
The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt was designed by Faith Ringgold and constructed in collaboration with New York City students ages eight through nineteen.
Perino del Vaga was one of the most admired and influential Italian artists of the sixteenth century. Spanning the artist's thirty-year career and including all his drawings in New York collections, this exhibition celebrates the Metropolitan Museum's recent acquisition of two major works by Perino.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art houses one of the largest, most comprehensive collections of Islamic art in the world. This exhibition is a chronological study of some of the Museum's major donor-collectors, whose gifts form the core of the collection of the Department of Islamic Art, illuminating the factors and motivations that inspired their collecting habits.
Through February 26, 2012
This exhibition, which coincides with the exhibition Stieglitz and His Artists: Matisse to O'Keeffe, presents some forty-eight photographic treasures by Anne Brigman, Alvin Langdon Coburn, F. Holland Day, Gertrude Käsebier, Joseph Keiley, Heinrich Kühn, Edward Steichen, Clarence White, and others.
Through March 11, 2012
This installation of modern and contemporary design objects features new acquisitions and other important works from the past century to the present.
Spring 2012
This installation presents approximately forty highlights from the Museum's extensive collection of rare and exquisitely decorated armor, weapons, and equestrian equipment from Tibet and related areas of Mongolia and China, dating from the eighth to the twentieth century.
Through April 15, 2012
Organized in celebration of three spectacular gifts to the Museum, this small exhibition explores techniques and themes in Chinese lacquer from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century, a high point in the development of this uniquely Asian artistic tradition.
Through June 17, 2012
This exhibition focuses on the work of Swiss-born Emile Gilliéron (1850–1924) and his son, Emile (1885–1939), who were among the foremost art restorers of their time.