The Heber Bishop Collection - Heber R. Bishop's collection of carved jades was formed in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum in 1902.  Consisting of over one thousand pieces—primarily Chinese jades of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as jades from Mughal India—it was the first major collection of its kind in the ...

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This new exhibition of the photographer’s work revisits the artist, whose groundbreaking 1996 retrospective, “Herb Ritts: WORK,” remains one of the most popular exhibitions in MFA history. The Ritts Foundation has given the Museum a print of every image in the 1996 exhibition, and in 2007, supported the MFA’s first gallery dedicated solely to photography. Herb Ritts was a l...

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This exhibition centering on a major conservation treatment by former Mellon Fellow Matthew Cushman, this Idea Lab presentation looks at a portrait of an unknown Antwerp man, painted by Anthony Van Dyck very early in the artist's career, just after his departure from Rubens's studio. Scientific research and the cleaning have revealed Van Dyck's process, including numerous changes to th...

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Piotr Uklański Photographs - This exhibition, the first to survey Uklański's photography, locates his work with the camera at the center of his artistic practice. Reveling in moribund or marginal artistic languages from a position at once ironic and sincere, the artist simultaneously subverts and pays homage to defunct modes of expression. Friday and Saturday: 10:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.* C...

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Marking the second year of its Studio Program, the Queens Museum presents an exhibition featuring the works of twelve artists, who, working singly and in partnerships, have occupied studios at QM during 2013-2014 and 2014-2015. The exhibition will take place in the new wing of the Queens Museum. The artists’ studios will open to the public during the opening celebration and on July 31. Clo...

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In this exihibit - At first, Jae Ko’s monumental paper relief sculpture gently coaxes you into the brightness of the East Gallery.  The composition starts as a trickle then quickly overtakes your height.  You become enveloped by its spell, and your curiosity is engaged. What you perceive is something magical and constantly changing in color, line, and form beyond the white paper of...

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In this exhibition over the course of the year, he made daily exposures at precisely 6:30 am, maintaining an identical combination of camera, 350-millimeter lens, slow-speed film and viewpoint overlooking Santa Monica Bay. Five of his large-scale, luminous photographs of Malibu capture what the artist calls "the fleeting nature of a particular confluence of light, and conditions that render a...

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The Art of the Mannequin will be the first museum exhibition to explore the work of renowned New York-based designer Ralph Pucci, who is widely regarded for his innovative approach to the familiar form of the mannequin. Having collaborated with luminaries such as Diane von Furstenberg, Patrick Naggar, Andrée Putman, Kenny Scharf, Anna Sui, Isabel and Ruben Toledo and Christy Turlington, Puc...

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Hip-Hop Revolution presents more than 80 photographs taken between 1977 and 1990 by three preeminent New York-based photographers—Janette Beckman, Joe Conzo, and Martha Cooper—who documented hip hop from its pioneering days through its emergence into mainstream popular culture.  The exhibition showcases the experiences of each photographer during these seminal years, as DJs, MCs,...

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In 1941, Jacob Lawrence, then just 23 years old, completed a series of 60 small tempera paintings with text captions about the Great Migration, the multi-decade mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North that started around 1915. Along with Lawrence's series, the exhibition includes other accounts of the Migration from the era.  The range of works in the e...

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