Events at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (next 7 days, Talks)

Changing Views: American Landscape Paintings

Gallery Talk

Look closely at landscapes by artists such as Thomas Cole, Thomas Eakins, and Winslow Homer, and discover what the mood and atmosphere of each painting reveals about its artist's attitude toward nature.

Saturday, May 18, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Gold and Silver in the Middle Ages

Gallery Talk at The Cloisters

No advance reservations are necessary.

Saturday, May 18, 12:00–1:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Gold and Silver in the Middle Ages

Gallery Talk at The Cloisters

No advance reservations are necessary.

Saturday, May 18, 2:00–3:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

The Robert Lehman Sitting Room: An Environment for Old Master Paintings

Gallery Talk

Experience the re-creation of collector Robert Lehman's sitting room, decorated with red velvet wall coverings and antique furniture, which houses Rembrandt's Portrait of Gerard de Lairesse and El Greco's Saint Jerome as Scholar.

Saturday, May 18, 7:00–8:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

The Spirits of Animals in African Art

Gallery Talk

View stunning, stylized images of animals in African sculpture, which suggest the important and symbolic relationship between humans and the fascinating creatures with which they share their world.

Sunday, May 19, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

The Spaces of Women's Fashion in the Collection of Impressionist Art

Gallery Talk

Explore the public and private spaces for women's fashion in late nineteenth-century France.

Tuesday, May 21, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Exhibition Tour—Photography and the American Civil War

Gallery Talk

In this exhibition, investigate the evolving role of the camera during the war by examining haunting battlefield landscapes, medical studies of wounded soldiers, portraits of both Abraham Lincoln and his assassin John Wilkes Booth, and other fascinating images.

Wednesday, May 22, 10:00–11:00 a.m.

Free with Museum admission

The Interior Environment in European Paintings

Gallery Talk

Explore interior spaces created by early European painters and discover how these places offer clues about the outside world.

Thursday, May 23, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Controlling the Environment: Himalayan Tangka Paintings

Gallery Talk

See how painters in the Nepalese and Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist tradition expressed their concern with controlling the Himalayan environment through images of powerful deities and protectors.

Friday, May 24, 6:30–7:30 p.m.

Free with Museum admission

Art, Religion, and the Environment in Ancient Greece

Gallery Talk

Picture the roadsides, sacred paths, and outdoor sanctuaries where the Greeks placed works of art to connect themselves to the divinities they worshipped.

Saturday, May 25, 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Free with Museum admission