Archived - Shows And Events

June 28 - October 30, 2016 - This exhibition takes a cue from the artists it features by displaying a constellation of photographs that collectively evoke the experience of a waking dream. Here, a night sky composed of pills, a fragmented rainbow, a sleeping fairy-tale princess, and an alien underwater landscape illuminate hidden impulses and longings underlying contemporary life. Drawn entirely f...

June 28 - October 23, 2016 - This juried exhibition of the work of talented young artists showcases the creativity of 90 prekindergarten through grade 12 students from all five boroughs and includes paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs, mixed-media works, collages, and drawings. Each piece demonstrates personal expression, imaginative use of media, the results of close observation, and an un...

June 28 - October 20, 2016 - This exhibition features baseball cards dating from 1887 when the Dodgers were called the Bridegrooms, the Giants were known as the Gothams, and the Yankees didn't yet exist to 1977, when the Mets had replaced the Dodgers and Giants as New York's primary National League team.

June 28 - October 16, 2016 - This installation features more than two dozen printed works from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that are either for or about children and were created by artists such as Randolph Caldecott, George Bellows, Winslow Homer, Thomas Nast, and others. Because of their sensitivity to light, these works primarily children's books, illustrations, and prints are rarely ...

June 28 - September 18, 2016 - This installation, drawn entirely from the permanent collection and ranging from the fourth century B.C. to today, explores multifaceted depictions of nature in Korean art. The display shows how select motifs, especially plants and animals, have been illustrated on ceramics, painting, sculpture, lacquer, and textiles, and what they mean. Some types of images and symb...

June 28 - September 5, 2016 - Iconographic analysis and scientific testing have revealed new information about the meaning and use of two textiles in the Museum's collection. The first woven in a loop pile meant to suggest a mosaic has recently been recognized as a wall hanging for Christian liturgical use. The second five recently acquired elements from a depiction of the Crossing of the Red Sea ...

June 28 - September 5, 2016 - This exhibition will focus on the period from the late 16th to the 18th century when Chinese porcelain became a global luxury, transforming both the European ceramic industry and styles of dining and drinking. Featuring 60 exquisite and unusual pieces, this presentation will challenge the long-standing, and overly rigid, tradition of cataloguing Chinese ceramics as do...

June 28 - August 14, 2016 - This exhibition features works of art inspired by The Met collection by high school interns, who collaborated with practicing artists at the Museum. Some of the teens regarded themselves as artists; others were experimenting with art for the first time. Half of the group worked with Artist in Residence Peter Hristoff, examining aspects of rug design such as composition,...

June 28 - July 7, 2016 - This exhibition highlights the early contributions of the De Forests and others, and presents recent additions to the collection for the first time.​ The De Forests envisioned building a collection of Mexican art, and, even though their ambitions were frustrated at the time, the foundational gift of more than one hundred pieces of pottery anchors the Met's holdings. Today,...

June 28 - July 31, 2016 - The exhibition is a comprehensive textile collection, the conservators' expertise, and state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation come together to make possible a detailed examination of fiber characteristics and technology through a series of three installations that will be focused on plant fibers, animal fibers, and synthetic fibers. This first installation in the ser...