Accomplice is a theatrical experience unlike any found in a theater, taking its audience on a mysterious journey through the city streets. Who's in on it? Who's not? Each production a unique...
This exhibit features graphic art of the Renaissance and after, encompassing prints in all techniques, sketches to highly finished drawings, illustrated books and other works on paper.
This exhibit features major canvases, panels, triptychs and frescoes by Italian, Flemish, Dutch, French, Spanish and British masters, from the 12th through the 19th century.
See tapestries, velvets, carpets, embroideries, laces, samplers, quilts and woven and printed fabrics from all periods and civilizations, dating back to 3000 B.C.E.
This exhibit features furniture, silver, pewter, glass, ceramics and textiles from the late 17th to early 20th century, as well as domestic architecture in furnished period rooms.
These galleries explore the South Asian emergence of Buddhist and Hindu sculptural traditions between the 2nd century B.C. and the 8th century A.D. More than 160 works from the permanent collections...
This exhibit features seven centuries and five continents of fashionable dress, regional costumes and accessories for men, women and children, up to the present.
American artist Roxy Paine (b. 1966) is creating a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide stainless-steel sculpture, especially for the Museum's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Immersing viewers in what...
Liza Lou's recent work 'Continuous Mile,' an ambitious and engaging large-scale sculpture made of gleaming white beads, went on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on January 23, 2009. The work is...
The Pacific Ocean encompasses more than a thousand distinct cultures and hundreds of artistic traditions in an area that covers about one-third of the earth's surface. The Museum's new permanent...
This exhibit features statuary, reliefs, stelae, funerary objects, jewelry, daily implements and architecture from prehistoric Egypt through the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms to the Roman period (4th...
When The Charles Engelhard Court--the grand, light-filled pavilion that has long served as the formal entrance to The Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing reopens in March 2009 after two years...
This exhibit features ritual objects and monuments, articles of personal adornment and utensils for daily life from three continents and dozens of Pacific islands, from 2000 B.C.E. to the present.
This exhibit features prints and daguerreotypes from the early history of the medium, European and American avant-garde works and contemporary contributions from around the world.
See an international array of instruments of historical, technical and social importance, as well as tonal and visual beauty, from accordions to koras to zithers.
The Museum's renovated gallery devoted to Native North American art display approximately 90 works made by numerous American peoples. Ranging from the beautifully shaped stone tools known as...
This exhibit features early European, Byzantine, Carolingian, Romanesque and Gothic works from the 4th to 16th century, including sculpture, tapestries, reliquaries, liturgical vessels and more.
This exhibit features armor for men, horses and children, as well as weapons and martial accoutrements of sculptural and ornamental beauty from Europe, Asia, the Middle East and America
This private collection of paintings, drawings and decorative arts given to the Museum is rich in works from the Italian and Northern Renaissance through the 20th century.
Over the past two decades, Fan Yang has explored the fragile and mysterious world of soap bubbles and emerged with a completely new medium, blending art and science to dazzle audiences around the...
This exhibit features stone reliefs and sculpture, ivory and objects of precious metal from a vast area and time span: Anatolia to the Indus Valley, Neolithic period (ca. 8000 B.C.E.) to the Arab...
This exhibit features paintings, calligraphy, prints, sculpture, ceramics, bronzes, jades, lacquer, textiles and screens from ancient to modern China, Japan, Korea, and South and Southeast Asia
This complex of Hellenistic, South Italian, Etruscan and Roman galleries, comprises an entire wing housing some 5300 objects in more than 30,000 square feet. The centerpiece is the Leon Levy and...
This exhibit features American and European paintings, works on paper, sculpture, design and architecture representing the major artistic movements since 1900.
This exhibit features sculpture, furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork, scientific instruments, textiles and period rooms of the major Western European countries from the Renaissance through the...
Discover rare first editions, artists' treatises and manuals, illustrated atlases, scrapbooks, fine bindings and seminal works of art history in the Museum's research libraries.
This exhibit features portraits, landscapes, history paintings, still lifes, folk art and sculpture from colonial times through the early 20th century.
This exhibit features manuscripts and miniatures, carpets, intricately decorated objects in many media, and architectural elements from the founding of Islam in the 7th century C.E. onward, from...
