Exhibition Tours
Explore exhibitions with curators and invited guests.
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Curators and invited guests lead audiences through exhibitions at The Met and share the ideas, research, and vision behind each show. See how an exhibition comes together and experience the galleries through the eyes of the people who created them.
Episodes
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Explore Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous, the first major New York presentation devoted to either artist in more than 20 years.
David Breslin and Brinda Kumar
October 16
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Explore Musical Bodies, the first major exhibition to examine the relationship between musical instruments and the body.
Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, Ava Valentino, and Brett Renfer
June 18
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Costume Art examines the dressed body through pairings of garments and artworks across The Met collection.
Andrew Bolton
May 28
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Explore Raphael: Sublime Poetry, the first comprehensive exhibition on Raphael in the United States.
Carmen C. Bambach, Daniel Kershaw, and Caroline Elenowitz-Hess
April 9
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Explore Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, the first exhibition of the Finnish modernist artist in a major United States museum.
Dita Amory and Max Hollein
December 18, 2025
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Explore the imagery associated with the most important deities in ancient Egypt’s massive body of gods in Divine Egypt.
Diana Craig Patch and Brendan Hainline
October 23, 2025
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Man Ray: When Objects Dream situates the rayograph in relation to Man Ray’s larger body of work of the 1910s and 1920s.
Stephanie D'Alessandro and Stephen C. Pinson
September 25, 2025
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Explore the Arts of Africa galleries following the renovation and reopening of The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
Alisa LaGamma and Jenny Peruski
August 14, 2025
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Explore the Arts of Oceania galleries following the renovation and reopening of The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
Maia Nuku
July 24, 2025
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Explore the Arts of the Ancient Americas galleries following the renovation and reopening of The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
Joanne Pillsbury and Laura Filloy Nadal
July 17, 2025
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Superfine: Tailoring Black Style presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style over three hundred years through the concept of dandyism.
Monica L. Miller and Andrew Bolton
May 22, 2025
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Explore the early career of American painter John Singer Sargent in Sargent and Paris.
Stephanie L. Herdrich, Caroline Corbeau-Parsons, and Paul Perrin
May 8, 2025
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Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie reimagines the story of European porcelain through a feminist lens.
Iris Moon and Patty Chang
April 10, 2025
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Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature explores how the artist reimagined European landscape painting.
Alison Hokanson, Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, and Max Hollein
February 20, 2025
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The American Wing celebrates its 100th anniversary with a reinstallation of its extensive collection of art and design in The American Wing at 100.
Sylvia Yount, Medill Higgins Harvey, Adrienne Spinozzi, Amelia Peck, Alyce Perry Englund, Stephanie L. Herdrich, Thayer Tolles, Patricia Marroquin Norby, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, and Max Hollein
December 20, 2024
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Explore how Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt in Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now.
Akili Tommasino, Julie Mehretu, and Fred Wilson
December 5, 2024
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In Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350, follow an exceptional moment at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance and the pivotal role of Sienese artists in defining Western painting.
Stephan Wolohojian and Caroline Campbell
October 24, 2024
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Explore Edward C. Moore’s personal collection and influences in Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co.
Medill Higgins Harvey, Deniz Beyazit, and Monika Bincsik
June 20, 2024
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Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion reactivates the sensory capacities of masterworks in the Museum’s collection through first-hand research, conservation analysis, and diverse technologies.
Andrew Bolton
May 17, 2024
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Explore this exhibition, which establishes the Harlem Renaissance and its development of the modern Black subject as central to international modern art.
Denise Murrell
March 7, 2024
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Look Again: European Paintings 1300–1800 celebrates the newly reopened galleries with fresh narratives and dialogues among more than 700 works of art.
Stephan Wolohojian, Adam Eaker, David Pullins, and Anna-Claire Stinebring
January 19, 2024
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Explore Africa & Byzantium, which recounts Africa’s central role in international networks of trade and cultural exchange during the Byzantine Empire.
Andrea Myers Achi
November 30, 2023
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Explore Vertigo of Color and the legacy of the 1905 summer from which a wholly new, radical artistic language later known as Fauvism emerged.
Dita Amory and Ann Dumas
November 9, 2023
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Discover one of the most significant artistic dialogues in modern art history: the close and sometimes tumultuous relationship between Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas.
Stephan Wolohojian and Ashley E. Dunn
October 10, 2023
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Explore Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE, an exhibition that transports visitors into the world of early Buddhist imagery.
John Guy and Donald S. Lopez
August 3, 2023
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Van Gogh’s Cypresses is the first exhibition to focus on the trees—among the most famous in the history of art—immortalized in signature images by Vincent van Gogh.
Susan Alyson Stein
June 1, 2023
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Explore The Costume Institute’s spring 2023 exhibition which examines the work of Karl Lagerfeld and spotlights the designer’s unique working methodology.
Andrew Bolton
May 12, 2023
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Join curators for a tour of this exhibition which presents rarely seen masterpieces and recent discoveries that trace the life cycle of the gods.
Joanne Pillsbury, Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos, and Laura Filloy Nadal
November 25, 2022
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Join curators for a tour of the exhibition which offers a radically new view of Cubism by demonstrating its engagement with the age-old tradition of trompe l’oeil painting.
Emily Braun and Elizabeth Cowling
October 28, 2022
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Explore The Tudors, which traces the transformation of the arts in Tudor England through more than 100 objects.
Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker
October 19, 2022
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Join co-curators Adrienne Spinozzi, Ethan Lasser, and Jason Young for a virtual tour of Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina.
September 22, 2022
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Explore Bernd & Hilla Becher, a retrospective on the renowned German artists who changed the course of late twentieth-century photography.
Jeff L. Rosenheim and Max Hollein
July 28, 2022
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Join curator Andrew Bolton on a tour of In America: An Anthology of Fashion—the second in a two-part exhibition exploring fashion in the United States.
Andrew Bolton
May 19, 2022
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Explore Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents, which reconsiders Homer’s work through the lens of conflict, a theme that crosses his prolific career.
Stephanie L. Herdrich and Sylvia Yount
April 21, 2022
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Explore Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman, the first exhibition devoted to works on paper by the French artist.
Perrin Stein
February 25, 2022
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Explore the exhibition, which presents the work of one of the most important contemporary artists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Kelly Baum and Brinda Kumar
February 16, 2022
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This exhibition reimagines the period room by embracing the African diasporic belief that the past, present, and future are interconnected.
Hannah Beachler, Dr. Michelle Commander, Ian Alteveer, and Sarah E. Lawrence
November 10, 2021
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Explore this exhibition, which reconsiders the true “movement” of Surrealism beyond boundaries of geography and chronology.
Stephanie D'Alessandro
October 13, 2021
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Join curator Andrew Bolton on a tour of In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, part one of The Met’s two-part exploration of fashion in the United States.
Andrew Bolton
September 18, 2021
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The New Woman was a global ideal of female empowerment based on real women making revolutionary changes in life and art.
Mia Fineman
July 8, 2021
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This exhibition features over 90 works portraying Medicean Florence’s elite painted by the period’s most celebrated artists, from Raphael to Agnolo Bronzino.
Keith Christiansen and Carlo Falciani
July 1, 2021
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This exhibition presents Alice Neel as a radical twentieth-century artist and champion of social justice whose humanist principles inspired her art.
Kelly Baum and Randall Griffey
March 25, 2021
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Join three curators on a tour through the newly installed European Paintings galleries and explore new dialogues and themes among the works.
Keith Christiansen, Stephan Wolohojian, and Adam Eaker
February 25, 2021
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Discover how Goya used drawings and prints to express complex ideas and respond to the turbulent social and political changes of the world around him.
Mark McDonald
February 18, 2021
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Explore 150 years of fashion—from 1870 to the present—along a disruptive timeline in The Costume Institute's 2020 exhibition.
Andrew Bolton
November 6, 2020
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Explore the exhibition Making The Met, 1870–2020 with Steve Martin as your guide.
Andrea Bayer, Max Hollein, and Steve Martin
September 4, 2020
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Take a tour through the exhibition Photography’s Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection with curator Jeff Rosenheim.
Jeff L. Rosenheim
May 29, 2020
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See this landmark exhibition featuring the cultural achievements of various medieval empires in sub-Saharan Africa.
May 15, 2020
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Take a tour through the exhibition Gerhard Richter: Painting After All and encounter the extraordinary work of one of the greatest artists of our time.
April 9, 2020
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Curator Andrew Bolton narrates a tour of The Costume Institute's spring 2019 exhibition, Camp: Notes on Fashion.
Andrew Bolton
May 10, 2019
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Heavenly Bodies at The Met Fifth Avenue examines fashion's ongoing engagement with the devotional practices and traditions of Catholicism.
Andrew Bolton
June 8, 2018
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Heavenly Bodies at The Met Cloisters examines fashion's ongoing engagement with the devotional practices and traditions of Catholicism.
Andrew Bolton
June 7, 2018
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This thematic show features approximately 140 examples of Kawakubo's womenswear for Comme des Garçons dating from the early 1980s to her most recent collection.
Andrew Bolton
June 9, 2017
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Manus x Machina explores how fashion designers reconcile the handmade and the machine-made in the creation of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear.
Andrew Bolton
June 10, 2016
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This exhibition explores the impact of Chinese aesthetics on Western fashion and how China has fueled the fashionable imagination for centuries.
Andrew Bolton
June 12, 2015
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Explore this retrospective which features approximately sixty-five of the most notable designs Charles James produced over the course of his career.
Harold Koda and Jan Glier Reeder
June 6, 2014
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Explore this exhibition which examines punk's impact on high fashion from the movement's birth in the early 1970s through its continuing influence today.
Andrew Bolton
June 7, 2013
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Tour this exhibition which celebrates the designer who expanded the understanding of fashion beyond utility to an expression of culture, politics, and identity.
Andrew Bolton
May 10, 2011
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Tour this exhibition which explores the reciprocal relationship between high fashion and evolving ideals of beauty.
June 16, 2009
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