“Raphael: Sublime Poetry, on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art March 29 to June 28, 2026, will be the first comprehensive, international loan exhibition in the United States on Raphael (Raffaello di Giovanni Santi; 1483–1520), considered one of the greatest artists of all time.… Read More
“Beloved in Nordic countries for her highly original style, Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862–1946) is relatively unknown to the rest of the world. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck will be the first major exhibition in the United States… Read More
“This summer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York, opening July 17, 2025. Born in Chippewa City, a remote Native American village on the shore of Lake Superior in northern Minnesota, George Morrison (Wah-wah-ta-ga-nah-gah-boo and Gwe-ki-ge-nah-gah-boo, Grand Portage Band… Read More
“The Metropolitan Museum of Art reopened The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, following the completion of a major renovation. The wing includes the collections in the Arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania galleries, and features over 1,800 works spanning five continents and hundreds of… Read More
“The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents an adventurous new history of American photography from the medium’s birth in 1839 to the first decade of the 20th century. Drawn from the Museum’s William L. Schaeffer Collection—a magnificent recent promised gift to The Met by trustee Philip… Read More
“Opening April 2, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance is the first exhibition to examine an intriguing but largely unknown tradition of Renaissance painting: portraits designed as multisided objects in which the sitters’ images were concealed behind a… Read More
“Look Again: European Paintings 1300–1800 will highlight new narratives and juxtapositions among more than 700 works of art, following an approximately five-year-long project to replace the galleries’ skylights. The Metropolitan Museum of Art will reopen its full suite of 45 galleries dedicated to European paintings… Read More
“The Met unveiled four new sculptures by Nairy Baghramian (German citizen, born Iran 1971) for the Museum’s facade. This is the first public installation by the artist in New York City. Baghramian’s cast aluminum polychrome sculptures feature components that seem to have washed up like… Read More
“In Maya art—one of the greatest artistic traditions of the ancient Americas—the gods are depicted in all stages of life: as infants, as adults at the peak of their maturity and influence, and finally, as they age. The gods could perish, and some were born… Read More
“From King Henry VII’s seizure of the throne in 1485 to the death of his granddaughter Queen Elizabeth I in 1603, England’s Tudor monarchs used art to legitimize and glorify their tumultuous reigns. The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England traces the transformation of… Read More
Commissioned originally for dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel, Germany and making its West Coast debut at SFMOMA, artist William Kentridge’s The Refusal of Time (2012) is an immersive installation combining synchronized video projections featuring live action, animation and dance, with audio feeds that incorporate music and sound and a… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “The conquests of Alexander the Great transformed the ancient world, making trade and cultural exchange possible across great distances. Alexander’s retinue of court artists and extensive artistic patronage provided a model for his successors, the Hellenistic kings, who came to rule over much of his… Read More
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