Discover the rich history of Oświęcim, Poland—the town the Germans called Auschwitz—through photographs that trace the life of the town and its Jewish residents, from the 16th century through the post-war period.

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Exploring the contribution — and showcasing the work — of a remarkable group of Jewish ̩migr̩ and American-born designers and architects, this exhibition examines a bold new direction in design and thought that helped create a modern domestic landscape. Come see vintage furnishings, housewares, and graphic designs by Anni Albers, George Nelson, Richard Neutra, Alvin Lustig, Saul Bass, Ernes...

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This year, New Yorkers celebrate the 50th anniversary of the City’s groundbreaking Landmarks Law signed on April 19, 1965. The Merchant’s House, because of its remarkable state of preservation and importance in the history of New York City, played a significant role in the landmarking movement from its very beginning. “It is a unique, and I stress the word unique, survivor in th...

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The Tredwell Costume Collection comprises more than 400 articles of clothing, primarily women’s dresses and their accompanying chemisettes, collars, undersleeves, and petticoats. The core of the collection is a remarkable 39 dresses documented to have been owned and worn by the women of the family. Many are outstanding examples of the 19th-century dressmaker’s art, composed of fine and...

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Treasures from the Irving Collection, 12th–18th Century.  Lacquer, the resin of a family of trees found throughout southern China—as well as in Southeast Asia, Korea, and Japan—is an amazing material. This installation, which features all of the most important examples of Chinese lacquer in the Museum's collection, explores the laborious techniques used to create scenes based on history an...

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Ten Centuries of Masterpieces from the Met Collection - This installation, which explores the cultural importance of silk in China, will showcase the most important and unusual textiles from the Museum's collection.  Spectacular embroideries—including an imperial fourteenth-century canopy decorated with phoenixes and flowers, and a monumental late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century panel ...

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Jo Ractliffe's Photographs of Angola and South Africa - Throughout her career, leading South African photographer Jo Ractliffe (born 1961) has directed her camera to landscapes to explore their hidden significance. Through her photographs, she addresses themes of displacement, conflict, history, memory, and erasure. This exhibition will present twenty-three selected works from three recent photogr...

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Exhibit features new work by Maria Taniguchi, Martha Atienza, Victor Balanon, and Mariano Montelibano, selected by Joselina Cruz. The practice of video art in the Philippines employs a rich, contemporary brand of localism, one marked by extravagant imagery filtered through a twenty-first-century sensibility. The artists seen here investigate the truthfulness of the images they produce or...

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In and Out of the Studio - This exhibition will present one hundred years of portrait photography in West Africa through nearly eighty photographs taken between the 1870s and the 1970s. These works, many of which are being shown for the first time.  The installation seeks to expand our understanding of West African portrait photography by rendering the broad variety of these practices and aesthet...

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Wynne Greenwood works across video, performance, music, and sculpture to explore the ways in which a single queer “self” may be pluralized and mobilized to fluidly embody different subjectivities and personae. Infusing temporarily constructed, collective spaces with humor and intimacy, Greenwood is widely known for her work as Tracy + the Plastics, in which she plays all three parts i...

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