Press Room

The Civil War and American Art
May 27–September 2, 2013

New European Paintings Galleries, 1250-1800
Opened May 23, 2013

Search for the Unicorn: An Exhibition in Honor of The Cloisters’ 75th Anniversary
May 15–August 18, 2013

The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi
May 14–November 3, 2013 (weather permitting)

Velázquez’s Portrait of Duke Francesco I d’Este: A Masterpiece from the Galleria Estense, Modena
April 16-July 14, 2013

Photography and the American Civil War
April 2–September 2, 2013

At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston
February 26—July 28, 2013

Plain or Fancy? Restraint and Exuberance in the Decorative Arts
February 26–August 18, 2013

Cambodian Rattan: The Sculptures of Sopheap Pich
February 23 – June 16, 2013

Birds in the Art of Japan
February 2, 2013–July 28, 2013

Sleeping Eros
January 29-June 23, 2013

African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde
November 27, 2012 – September 2, 2013

Bashford Dean and the Creation of the Arms and Armor Department
October 2, 2012 – September 29, 2013

Metropolitan Museum Launches 82nd & Fifth, a 2013 Multimedia Online Series Featuring 100 Works of Art and 100 Curators They Inspired

New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran,
Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Opened: November 1, 2011

New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
Opened January 16, 2012

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity
February 26 - May 27, 2013

Street
March 5-May 27, 2013