INSIDE THE MET’S NEW ERA: SPRING 2026 BRINGS EXPANSIVE GALLERIES AND “COSTUME ART” The Metropolitan Museum of Art is stepping into a new era of fashion-as-fine-art. Beginning May 10, 2026, The Costume Institute will debut Costume Art, an expansive exhibition exploring the relationship between the dressed body and artworks spanning 5,000 years of The Met’s…
WITNESSING HUMANITY: THE ART OF JOHN WILSONThe Metropolitan Museum of ArtSeptember 20, 2025 – February 8, 20261000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson marks a long-overdue moment in American art history. Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,…
Mexican Prints at the Vanguard The Metropolitan Museum of Art September 12–January 5, 2025 Opening on September 12, 2024, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mexican Prints at the Vanguard will showcase Mexico’s vibrant printmaking tradition from the 18th to mid-20th century. The exhibition will feature early works by José Guadalupe Posada, renowned for his…
Prepare to be enchanted by the captivating exhibition “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 10 to September 2, 2024. This immersive experience, presented by The Costume Institute, delves into the theme of rebirth and renewal in fashion, using nature as a metaphor for its impermanence. The exhibition aims to…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Verizon are rolling out Replica, a first-of-its-kind AR app experience. On August 1st, the two organizations announced the platform, which allows visitors at The Met to scan artwork and bring digital elements into the Roblox platform. Downloads for Replica began on August 2nd, with visitor access opening the next…
New York Art Week May 5-12, 2022 From May 5-12, more than 20 New York–based art organizations, galleries, museums and auction houses have banded together to launch the first official New York Art Week, which is set to take place when four art fairs—Independent, TEFAF, NADA, and The Future Fair—open in the city this spring.…
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. New-York Historical Society, NY October 1, 2021 – January 23, 2022 Following the one year anniversary of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death, the New-York Historical Society has opened an exhibit honoring the late cultural icon’s life. The collection is entitled, Notorious RBG: The Life…
The Costume Institute is returning with its next major exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. This year, the exhibition is coming in two different parts – In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, from September 18, 2021 to September 5, 2022, and In America: An Anthology of Fashion, from May 5, 2022 to September 5, 2022. The…
Alice Neel: People Come First The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC From March 22 – August 1st, 2021 New York City’s art scene is kneeling to Alice Neel (1900-1984). Set to run from March 22 to Aug. 1, 2021, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is preparing to unveil a retrospective of Neel, who is described…
“About Time: Fashion and Duration” On view: October 29th 2020 – February 7th 2021 The Met Fifth Ave Tracing a century and a half of fashion, The Met’s new exhibit “About time: Fashion and Duration”, will open on October 29th and will close on February 7th, 2021 at The Met Fifth Ave. Employing Henri Bergson‘s…
As New York City moves into phase four of its reopening plan, Governor Cuomo announced that museums and other large indoor cultural spaces will remain closed indefinitely. While zoos and outdoor gardens have been permitted to open at a lowered capacity, indoor attractions pose a higher risk for the spread of COVID-19. Mr. Cuomo recently…
As long as the art world has been bastion for self-expression and radical system-challenging, the structures that make it up have often been exclusionary and narrow-minded. Part of the work of the current fight against injustice is to examine the country’s most enduring fixtures- like art museums- and force the systemic hang-ups that’s baked into them…
About Time: Fashion and Duration On view: May 7th – September 7th, 2020 The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave. New York, NY The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the theme for their Costume Institute exhibition coming in 2020, called About Time: Fashion and Duration. A century and a half of fashion history will…
The Renaissance of Etching On view: October 23, 2019–January 20, 2020 The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue, NYC This winter The Metropolitan Museum of Art will showcase a new exhibition that highlights the history of early printmaking and the art of etching. The new exhibit, titled “The Renaissance of Etching,” will cover six…
Protesters travelled to Paris and demanded The Louvre Museum no longer bear the name of a family they feel is complicit in the opioid epidemic: the Sackler family. The Sacklers are a British-American family primarily known for founding and owning the massive pharmaceutical company, Purdue Pharma. While many large pharmaceutical companies have come under fire…
Oliver Beer: Vessel Orchestra On View: July 2nd – August 11th, 2019 The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY The Met has commissioned a sound-based exhibition for the first time, complete with live performances from a diverse group of artists. Oliver Beer, a conceptual and installation artist from England, is presenting…
“Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy” September 18th, 2018 – January 6th, 2019 The Met Breuer, New York City The Met Breuer will open, “Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy,” the first major museum exhibition about art and conspiracy on September 18th. The collection of 70 multimedia works introduces an alternative narrative for the history of…
History Refused to Die: Highlights from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation Gift May 22nd – September 23rd, 2018 The Met Fifth Avenue A new exhibition presenting 30 works in a range of mediums by self-taught contemporary African American artists, “History Refused to Die” celebrates the 2014 gift to The Met of works of art from…
DELIRIOUS: ART AT THE LIMITS OF REASON 1950-1985 The Met Breuer, NYC September 13, 2017-January 14, 2018 945 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10021 The exhibit “Delirious”, has been derived from the delirium taking place in the art world at the time. Between 1950 and 1980 the world exploded in conflicts, whether it was military, social, or…
Irving Penn: Centennial The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028 April 24 – July 30, 2017 The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a major retrospective of the photographs of Irving Penn to mark the centennial of the artist’s birth. Over the course of his nearly 70-year career, Irving Penn…
