MetLiveArts presents innovative works new and old that highlight the Museum’s spaces, objects, pasts, and futures.
Upcoming Events
2023-24 Quartet in Residence: Catalyst Quartet
MetLiveArts has invited Catalyst Quartet to return for an unprecedented second season of residency! The ensemble will continue to deepen the ideas developed during year one, with in-gallery performances, special artist collaborations, and a new Instagram series to follow the ever-popular CQ Minute.
Programming will be announced in Fall 2023.
Radical Dance For The People:
Martha Graham Dance Company
Tuesday, September 19; Sunday & Tuesday, October 8 & 10
Museum-wide
Dancers from Martha Graham's revolutionary company stage some of the choreographer's most powerful 1930s solos in galleries throughout The Met, inspired by the exhibition Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s.
Free with Museum admission
Jacolby Satterwhite: The Great Hall Commission
Saturdays in October and November 2023
The Great Hall
Jacolby Satterwhite creates an immersive, multifaceted installation with video, music, movement, and live performance. This ambitious project transforms the Museum's Great Hall, inviting visitors to explore works of art from the Collection in an unprecedented way.
Free with Museum admission
Sight and Sound: Art for the Millions
Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 2 pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Join Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now as they investigate the relationship between American music and the Great Depression, featuring music by Copland and art from the exhibition Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s.
ModernMedieval Voices:
A Midwinter Feast
Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 3 pm
Fuentidueña Chapel, The Met Cloisters
Following their triumphant Met debut in 2019, ModernMedieval Voices returns to The Met Cloisters for eight centuries of holiday carols, chants, folk songs, traditional tunes, and ecclesiastic music.
H. Sinno: Westerly Breath
Thursday, January 25 – Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 7 pm
The Temple of Dendur
Singer, composer, and activist H Sinno (former leader of alt-rock band Mashrou' Leila) weaves together myth, memoir, and monumentality in his new, site-specific operetta for the Temple of Dendur.
Handel: Made in America
Thursday, February 15 & Friday, February 16, 2024 at 7 pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Through the lens of George Frideric Handel's life and works, musician and storyteller Terrance McKnight (WQXR) leads an intimate and revealing journey that weaves his own history with the story of Handel's world — and the money, power, and people that moved and were moved by it.
Sight and Sound: Debussy and Fauvism
Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 2 pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Join Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now as they discuss parallels between the technicolor art and music of early 1900s France, featuring music by Debussy.
Plating the Future
Wednesday, March 27 & Thursday, March 28, 2024 at 6:30 pm
The Temple of Dendur
Culinary historian Jessica Harris (Netflix's High on the Hog) leads an immersive journey of past, present, and future visions of the African Diaspora, anchored in food, drink, performance, and conversation.
Sight and Sound: Harlem Renaissance
Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 2 pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Join Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now as they investigate classical music in the Harlem Renaissance, featuring music by William Grant Still.
The Clarion Choir and Orchestra: Ockeghem Marathon
Wednesday, June 12, 2024 from 3 pm – 8 pm
Museum-wide, The Met Cloisters
Following their sold-out Josquin des Prez marathon in 2022, The Clarion Choir and Orchestra return to The Met Cloisters to celebrate the 600th birthday (give or take) of Franco-Flemish forefather Johannes Ockeghem.