The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Current Exhibitions

Pen and Chisel: Sculpture Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection

Through January 13, 2013

This installation features preparatory designs for sculptural projects and studies of existing sculpture.
Gems of European Lace, ca. 1600–1920

Through January 13, 2013

The lace collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the finest in the country. On view in this exhibition are a variety of styles and techniques spanning a period of more than three hundred years.

Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art

Through January 13, 2013

Highlighting the school's most prominent proponents, this two-part presentation traces the development of the Rinpa aesthetic and demonstrates how its style continued to influence artists throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
British Silver: The Wealth of a Nation

Through January 20, 2013

This exhibition explores some of the ingredients that made the English silver trade such a vigorous success in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.

Buddhism along the Silk Road: 5th–8th Century

Through February 10, 2013

Drawing together objects from India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the western reaches of Central Asia—regions connected in the sixth century A.D. through trade, military conquest, and the diffusion of Buddhism—the exhibition illuminates a remarkable moment of artistic exchange.
Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection

Through February 24, 2013

This exhibition includes a selection of highlights of recent acquisitions in the area of French drawings.

Turkmen Jewelry from the Collection of Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf

Through February 24, 2013

This exhibition of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Turkmen jewelry and decorative objects features some fifty works from the collection of Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf.
Late Klee

Through February 24, 2013

This selection of watercolors, drawings and paintings focuses on the last fifteen years of Paul Klee's life, from 1925 to 1940.

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.
"A Sport for Every Girl": Women and Sports in the Collection of Jefferson R. Burdick

Through June 16, 2013

Beginning in the late 1870s, tobacco producers used inventive imagery of actresses, athletes, politicians, animals, flags, and world capitals—to name only a few of the hundreds of categories—to advertise their brands.

The Sau-Wing Lam Collection of Rare Italian Stringed Instruments

Through June 30, 2013

The Sau-Wing Lam collection of violin-family instruments is one of the most important collections of bowed Italian stringed instruments ever assembled by a private individual.
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.

Bashford Dean and the Creation of the Arms and Armor Department

Through September 29, 2013

To mark the centennial of the Arms and Armor Department, this exhibition surveys the career of Dr. Bashford Dean (1867–1928), the department's founding curator.
Fabergé from the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection

Long-term Installation

This selection of works by Fabergé from Matilda Geddings Gray's sumptuous collection is on long-term loan at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Iconic works from the House of Fabergé have not been on public view in New York since 2004.