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Through May 27, 2013
Through August 4, 2013
Through September 2, 2013
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, a new video by British-born artist James Nares forms the centerpiece of this exhibition of works from the permanent collection.
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.
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.
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.
Through July 7, 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.
This exhibition presents ten works by the contemporary Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich (born 1971), who lives and works in Phnom Penh.
Through July 14, 2013
Through July 28, 2013
This exhibition presents approximately 150 works in various media from medieval times to the present.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
