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Past Exhibition

The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met

24 mai 2021–7 janvier 2024
The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met showcases the Museum’s important and rare collection of third- to eighth-century art from Egypt and reevaluates it through the lens of late antique ideas about abundance, virtue, and shared clas…
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Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty

5 mai–16 juillet 2023
The Costume Institute’s spring 2023 exhibition will examine the work of Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019). Focusing on the designer’s stylistic vocabulary as expressed in aesthetic themes that appear time and again in his fashions from the 1950s to his fi…
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The Facade Commission: Hew Locke, Gilt

15 septembre 2022–30 mai 2023
Gilt is the third in a series of commissions for The Met’s historic facade. Borrowing the format of trophies—emblems of competition and victory—Hew Locke has created four sculptures that reflect on the exercise and representation of power. These wo…
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Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now

17 novembre 2024–17 février 2025
Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now examines how Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt through visual art, sculpture, literature, music, scholarship, religion, politics, and performance. I…
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The Facade Commission: Nairy Baghramian, Scratching the Back

7 septembre 2023–28 mai 2024
For The Met Fifth Avenue’s facade niches, Nairy Baghramian has created four abstract polychrome sculptures with components that seem to have washed up like flotsam and jetsam in the voids of their respective niches. The project is the artist’s firs…
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Superfine: Tailoring Black Style

Jusqu'au 26 octobre
The Costume Institute’s spring 2025 exhibition presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style over three hundred years through the concept of dandyism. In the 18th-century Atlantic world, a new culture of consumption, fueled by the s…
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Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph

30 septembre 2024–16 mars 2025
The Met presents the first-ever major museum exhibition to examine the career of the influential 20th-century architect Paul Rudolph, a second-generation Modernist, who came to prominence during the 1950s and 1960s alongside peers such as Eero Saar…
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A Passion for Jade: The Bishop Collection

Jusqu'au 4 janvier 2026
More than a hundred remarkable objects from the Heber Bishop collection, including carvings of jade, the most esteemed stone in China, and many other hardstones, are on view in this focused presentation. The refined works represent the sophisticate…
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Hidden Faces: Covered Portraits of the Renaissance

2 avril–7 juillet 2024
This exhibition is the first to examine an intriguing but largely unknown side—in the literal sense—of Renaissance painting: multisided portraits in which the sitter’s likeness was concealed by a hinged or sliding cover, within a box, or by a dual-…
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The Genesis Facade Commission: Lee Bul, Long Tail Halo

Jusqu'au 10 juin
South Korean artist Lee Bul (born 1964, Yeongju, based in Seoul) has transformed the iconic niches of the Museum’s Fifth Avenue facade with four new works that challenge what sculptures can reveal about our times. Responding to the facade as a site…
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Gems of European Lace, ca. 1600–1920

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.

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The Secret Life of Textiles: The Milton Sonday Archive

This installation includes a selection of Milton Sonday's studies of lace structures and couched embroidery, loom models for patterned weaves, and diagrams made from classic handwoven textiles.

On view December 18, 2017–May 5, 2019

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Warriors of the Himalayas

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Painters of Reality

Some 110 paintings and drawings from the North Italian region of Lombardy, dating from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century, reveal the rich vein of naturalism found there.

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Arms and Armor

A rich display of acquisitions made since the reinstallation of the Arms and Armor Galleries in 1991.

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"La Divine Comtesse"

More than ninety photographs of the most beautiful woman of her time tell an extraordinary tale.