Archived - Shows And Events

June 28 - July 24, 2016 - The Metropolitan Museum is pleased to present this small exhibition in the Charlotte C. Weber Galleries for the Arts of Ancient China, featuring depictions of monkeys in various media including painting, ceramics, metalwork, and jade carving. The traditional East Asian lunar calendar consists of a repeating twelve-year cycle, with each year corresponding to one of the twe...

June 28 - July 18, 2016 - In this exhibition because of their sensitivity to light, these works cannot be on permanent exhibition; each installation remains on view for approximately 13 weeks. The rotations of the gallery consist of diverse pieces—new acquisitions as well as works that might not find their way into a major exhibition. They are selected to show the breadth and quality of the Museum...

June 28 - July 17, 2016 - This installation features a series of six new works made from fabric purchased in New York and Maine, along with 10 paintings. Together they elaborate Tuttle's interest in abstraction, texture, and materiality, as well as his long-standing use of cloth as a medium.

June 28 - July 17, 2016 - In the early 20th century, the arts of medieval Iran and Syria attracted unprecedented interest in the West. Demand by museums and collectors especially for figural and highly decorated works—promoted commercial and research excavations, and led to the custom of repairing, filling in, and enhancing fragmentary and deteriorated examples. The exhibition considers the legacy...

June 28 - October 11, 2016 - The exhibition encompasses the vast historical sweep of the brush arts of China, from meticulous court painting to fiercely brushed dragons to lyrical paintings by scholars. Over the last forty years, the Metropolitan's collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy has grown to be one of the greatest in the world. This exhibition, presented in two rotations, will high...

June 28 - September 12, 2016 - This exhibition includes compelling episodes from the epic and poetic literature of the Indian subcontinent dominate the nearly 100 masterful paintings. Created mainly between the 16th and the early 19th century for the royal courts of Rajasthan and the Punjab Hills in northern India, the works on view are meant to move the soul and delight the eye. The collection wa...

June 28 - July 31, 2016 - This exhibition explores the multifaceted intersections between photography and crime, from 19th-century "rogues' galleries" to work by contemporary artists inspired by criminal transgression. The installation will feature some 70 works, drawn entirely from The Met collection, ranging from the 1850s to the present.

June 28 - September 18, 2016 - This exhibition, the first of its kind in the United States, sheds light on the role of these objects in mediating relationships between the living, the dead, and the divine. It also provides a rare look at ancient American architecture, much of which did not survive to the present day. Some thirty remarkable loans from museums in the United States and Peru join work...

June 28 - August 7, 2016 - This focus exhibition is the first to unite the series of four whaling scenes made by the British landscapist Joseph Mallord William Turner near the end of his career. The quartet of paintings comprising The Met's Whalers and its three companions in the Tate, London were among the last seascapes exhibited by Turner, for whom marine subjects were a creative mainstay. The ...

June 28 - July 24, 2016 - This landmark international loan exhibition will feature spectacular works of art created in the 11th through 13th century from Turkmenistan to the Mediterranean. Approximately 270 objects including ceramics, glass, stucco, works on paper, woodwork, textiles, and metalwork from American, European, and Middle Eastern public and private collections will be shown. Many of th...