Current Exhibitions

  • 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.

  • Making the Invisible Visible

    Making the Invisible Visible: Conservation and Islamic Art

    Through August 4, 2013

    Conservators and conservation scientists made many exciting and interesting discoveries as they and the curators re-examined the Museum's collection of Islamic art prior to the reopening of the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia.

  • 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.

  • Land Marks

    Land Marks

    Through August 18, 2013

    This exhibition of nineteen works from the permanent collection surveys the ways in which artists have made marks upon the earth, or made images from humanity's marks upon it.

  • The Fall of Richmond, Virginia on the Night of April 2nd, 1865

    Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection

    Through August 25, 2013

    To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, fought July 1–3, 1863, this installation features a large selection of American prints related to the Civil War.

  • Photography and the American Civil War

    Photography
    and the American Civil War

    Through September 2, 2013

    More than two hundred of the finest and most poignant photographs of the American Civil War have been brought together for this landmark exhibition. Through examples drawn from the Metropolitan's celebrated holdings of this material, complemented by important loans from public and private collections, the exhibition examines the evolving role of the camera during the nation's bloodiest war.

  • Fabergé

    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.