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...

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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.

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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 ...

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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...

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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 th...

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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. ...

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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,...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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