Current Exhibitions

  • Portrait of Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716-1791)

    Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection

    Through May 19, 2013

    On view in the Johnson Gallery for Drawings and Prints is a recently acquired portrait of French eighteenth-century sculptor Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716–1791) by his teacher Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne the Younger (1704–1778) exhibited alongside other drawings by sculptors of the period.

  • Street

    Street

    Through May 27, 2013

    Street, a new video by British-born artist James Nares forms the centerpiece of this exhibition of works from the permanent collection.

  •  After Photoshop: Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age

    After Photoshop: Manipulated Photography
    in the Digital Age

    Through May 27, 2013

    An addendum to the exhibition Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, this installation explores various ways in which artists, including Nancy Burson, Filip Dujardin, Joan Fontcuberta, Beate Gütschow, and others, have used digital technology to alter the photographic image from the 1980s to the present.

  • Sleeping Eros

    Sleeping Eros

    Through June 23, 2013

    The exhibition focuses on the Museum's statue of Sleeping Eros, one of the finest of the few surviving ancient bronze statues from antiquity.

  • Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons; Cranes and Flowers of the Four Seasons

    Birds in the Art of Japan

    Through July 28, 2013

    This exhibition presents approximately 150 works in various media from medieval times to the present.

  • At War with the Obvious:  Photographs by William Eggleston

    At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston

    Through July 28, 2013

    William Eggleston (American, born 1939) emerged in the early 1960s as a pioneer of modern color photography. This exhibition celebrates the artist's iconic photographs of commonplace subjects that have become touchstones for generations of artists, musicians, and filmmakers from Nan Goldin to David Byrne, the Coen Brothers, and David Lynch.

  • Objects from the Kharga Oasis

    Objects from the Kharga Oasis

    Through August 4, 2013

    This selection of late Roman and Byzantine period objects from the Metropolitan Museum's excavations at the Kharga Oasis includes textiles, ceramics, and grave goods from an intact tomb.

  • Plain or Fancy: Restraint and Exuberance in the Decorative Arts

    Plain or Fancy?: Restraint and Exuberance in the Decorative Arts

    Through August 18, 2013

    This exhibition contrasts austere works of art with ornate ones, encouraging viewers to examine their own responses and to consider them in the light of different stylistic imperatives of the past.