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• The Met Elects Three New Trustees—Ursula Burns, Amy Griffin, and David S. Winter

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Appoints Regina Lombardo as Chief Security Officer

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Department of Live Arts Receives Endowment from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met Announces Alex Da Corte as Artist for 2021 Roof Garden Commission

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met to Release Limited-Edition Print Portfolio Commissioned in Celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Host a Global, Virtual Teens Take The Met!

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• Google Doodle to Mark 151st Anniversary of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Founding

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Met Receives Significant Gift of 18 Exceptional Contemporary Metalworks by Japanese Artists

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Celebrates Women’s History Month with a Series of Virtual Programming

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:34 p.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Unveils First-Ever Artist-Designed Banners for Its Fifth Avenue Facade

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

• Gerhard Richter's Poignant Birkenau Paintings

  Now on View at The Met

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

• P.S. Art Exhibition at The Met to Feature Juried Display of Art by NYC Public School Students

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

• Exhibition Spanning Gerhard Richter’s Prolific Six Decade Career to Open at The Met Breuer

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  March 4–July 5, 2020

• Met Exhibition to Focus on Artistic Legacy of Africa's Sahel

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  January 30–October 26, 2020

• Pictures, Revisited Reexamines the Art of Visual Appropriation Chronicled in the Museum’s Landmark 2009 Exhibition The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

• Cross-Cultural Connections to be Explored in Thematic Displays at The Met

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  March 6, 2020–Ongoing 

• Art for the Community: The Met's Circulating Textile Exhibitions, 1933–42 to Open October 31

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  October 31, 2020–June 13, 2021

• Costume Institute Exhibition Presents a Disrupted Timeline of Fashion History

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  October 29, 2020–February 7, 2021

• L'héritage artistique du Sahel fait l'objet d'une nouvelle exposition au MET

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  30 Janvier–10 Mai 2020

• Jacob Lawrence’s Powerful Little-Known Series Struggle: From the History of the American People on View Beginning August 29

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

• Mexican Artist Héctor Zamora’s Commissioned Work for the Cantor Roof Garden to Go on View When The Met Reopens on August 29

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  August 29–December 7, 2020

• In Pursuit of Fashion:
  The Sandy Schreier Collection
  

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  November 27, 2019–September 27, 2020

• Monumental Paintings by Kent Monkman Unveiled at The Met

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  December 19, 2019–April 19, 2021

• Una exposición en The Met explorará los logros artísticos de las civilizaciones ancestrales del Caribe

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  16 de diciembre de 2019–27 de junio de 2021

• Exhibition at The Met to Explore Superb Artistic Achievements of Ancestral Caribbean Civilizations

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:33 p.m.

  December 16, 2019–June 27, 2021

• Se inaugurará en el Met la primera gran exposición sobre el pintor afrohispano Juan de Pareja, el modelo del icónico retrato de Diego Velázquez

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:00 a.m.

  Fechas de la exposición: Del 3 de abril al 16 de julio de 2023

• The Met Presents the Dynamic Work of Cecily Brown in Focused Career Survey

  Tuesday, December 6, 2022, 5:00 a.m.

  Exhibition Dates: April 4–December 3, 2023 

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Honors Pamela Liebman at 2022 Real Estate Council Benefit

  Thursday, November 10, 2022, 5:00 a.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art presentará la primera gran exposición de arte maya de Estados Unidos en una década

  Thursday, October 20, 2022, 4:00 a.m.

• Costume Institute’s Spring Exhibition Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty to Open at The Met on May 5 d

  Friday, September 30, 2022, 4:00 a.m.

  Member Previews: May 2 and 4, 2023

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Renovate Its Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

  Thursday, September 22, 2022, 4:00 a.m.

• Exhibition at The Met Explores Themes of the Natural World in Chinese Art

  Saturday, September 10, 2022, 4:00 a.m.

  September 10, 2022 – January 29, 2023

• Landmark Exhibition of Ceramic Objects from Old Edgefield District of South Carolina Opens September 9 at The Met

  Friday, September 9, 2022, 4:00 a.m.

  September 9, 2022–February 5, 2023

• Artistic Splendor of Tudor England to Be Exhibited at The Met

  Thursday, August 11, 2022, 4:00 a.m.

  Exhibition Dates: October 10, 2022–January 8, 2023

• Artist Michael Lin Creates First Site-Specific Installation for The Met’s Great Hall Escalator, Drawing Inspiration from Chinese Ceramics

  Wednesday, August 3, 2022, 3:00 p.m.

  Exhibition Dates: Opening August 15, 2022

• Bernd & Hilla Becher, First Posthumous Retrospective of the Highly Influential Photographers to Open at The Met July 15

  Friday, July 15, 2022, 4:00 a.m.

  Exhibition Dates: July 15– November 16, 2022

• Lisa Sutcliffe Named Curator in the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Friday, June 24, 2022, 4:00 a.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Return of Complimentary Bicycle Valet Program This Summer

  Thursday, May 26, 2022, 4:00 a.m.

• The Met Announces Lauren Halsey as Artist for 2023 Cantor Roof Garden Commission

  Friday, April 22, 2022, 4:00 a.m.

• The Met to Deaccession Picasso's Head of a Woman, Bronze, 1909

  Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 5:00 a.m.

• The African Origin of Civilization

  Saturday, November 20, 2021, 5:00 a.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Transform Its Children’s Library

  Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 5:00 a.m.

  Newly designed area to be reimagined as an active learning center for children and their caregivers

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Unveil Great Hall Display of Powerful Ancient Maya Stone Monuments from the Republic of Guatemala

  Monday, August 30, 2021, 4:00 a.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Verizon Launch Interactive Virtual Art Experience

  Tuesday, January 12, 2021, 5:00 a.m.

• Met Museum Sets New Attendance Record with More Than 7.35 Million Visitors

  Thursday, July 5, 2018, 4:00 a.m.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Return Two Stone Sculptures to Nepal

  Monday, March 5, 2018, 5:00 a.m.

• Aaron I. Fleischman Endows Curatorship in Modern and Contemporary Art at The Met

  Wednesday, February 14, 2018, 8:33 p.m.

• Huma Bhabha Named Artist for The Met’s 2018 Cantor Roof Garden Commission

  Thursday, February 1, 2018, 12:03 a.m.

• International Council of Museums to Publish Emergency Red List of Cultural Objects at Risk for Yemen

  Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 4:53 p.m.

• Exhibition at The Met Featuring an Unprecedented Number of Drawings by Michelangelo Reaches Milestone Mark of 500,000 Visitors

  Wednesday, January 10, 2018, 9:30 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces Updated Admissions Policy

  Thursday, January 4, 2018, 3:55 p.m.

• Bruker and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announce
  Partnership in the Field of Cultural Heritage Science

  Wednesday, December 13, 2017, 12:14 p.m.

• CURRENT MAJOR EXHIBITIONS

  Friday, December 1, 2017, 5:00 p.m.

• Significant Modern and Contemporary Works from the Collection of Michael and Juliet Rubenstein to Go on View at The Met Breuer

  Thursday, November 30, 2017, 9:24 p.m.

  January 29–March 29, 2020

• 筆墨精微—中國書畫名品展
  大都會藝術博物館展出館藏中國書畫名品，效古代藝術家精研物象

  Thursday, November 30, 2017, 9:23 p.m.

  2020年1月25日—2021年1月3日 

• New Exhibition at The Met Takes a Close Look at Its Own Chinese Masterpieces as Old Masters Did

  Thursday, November 30, 2017, 9:23 p.m.

  Rotation 1: January 25, 2020–July 19, 2020

• The Facade Commission:
  Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us

  Thursday, November 30, 2017, 9:22 p.m.

• The Met’s 2020 Vision Will Highlight Important Role of Gifts to the Department of Photographs through Two-Part Presentation

  Thursday, November 30, 2017, 9:22 p.m.

  Rotation 1, Photographs, 1840s–1860s: December 3, 2019–May 10, 2020

• The Facade Commission:
  Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us
  Artist's Statement

  Thursday, November 30, 2017, 9:21 p.m.

• Home Is a Foreign Place: Recent Acquisitions in Context

  Thursday, November 30, 2017, 9:16 p.m.

  April 9, 2019–June 2020

• Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera

  Thursday, November 30, 2017, 9:09 p.m.

  November 28, 2018–December 31, 2021

• In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met

  Thursday, November 30, 2017, 9:08 p.m.

  October 16, 2018–October 1, 2020

• Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection

  Thursday, November 30, 2017, 9:07 p.m.

  October 4, 2018–Ongoing

• UPCOMING MAJOR EXHIBITIONS

  Thursday, November 23, 2017, 9:30 p.m.

• Met Museum Receives $80 Million Gift from the Irving Family

  Tuesday, November 14, 2017, 6:18 p.m.

• The Met Celebrates the Holiday Season with Performances, Events, and Special Displays

  Monday, November 13, 2017, 10:50 p.m.

• Programs and Events on November 17-19 to Fête "William" the Hippo, Met Museum Mascot

  Thursday, November 9, 2017, 5:00 p.m.

• Costume Institute’s Spring 2018 Exhibition at The Met Fifth Avenue and Met Cloisters to Focus on Fashion and the Catholic Imagination

  Monday, November 6, 2017, 8:08 p.m.

• Aesthetic Splendors: Highlights from the Gift of Barrie and Deedee Wigmore

  Sunday, November 5, 2017, 3:39 p.m.

  Opening December 2, 2019

• Exhibition to Explore One Hundred Years of Photography through the Remarkable Collection of Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee

  Sunday, November 5, 2017, 3:35 p.m.

  March 10–November 30, 2020

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art to Debut the Signature Exhibition of its 150th-Anniversary Year on August 29

  Sunday, November 5, 2017, 3:34 p.m.

  August 29, 2020–January 3, 2021

• The Gosford Wellhead: An Ancient Roman Masterpiece

  Sunday, November 5, 2017, 3:33 p.m.

  June 1, 2020–February 14, 2021

• New York Art Worlds, 1870–1890

  Sunday, November 5, 2017, 3:32 p.m.

  June 8, 2020–March 28, 2021

• The Met to Present Exhibition of Edward C. Moore’s Collection of Decorative Arts

  Sunday, November 5, 2017, 3:31 p.m.

  June 9–October 20, 2024

• UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

  Sunday, November 5, 2017, 4:00 a.m.

• CONTINUING EXHIBITIONS

  Saturday, November 4, 2017, 4:00 p.m.

• Rayyane Tabet / Alien Property

  Friday, November 3, 2017, 11:21 p.m.

  October 30, 2019–January 18, 2021

• Sita and Rama: The Ramayana in Indian Painting

  Friday, November 3, 2017, 11:18 p.m.

  August 10, 2019–August 23, 2020

• Frank Lloyd Wright Textiles: The Taliesin Line, 1955–60

  Friday, November 3, 2017, 11:17 p.m.

  May 20, 2019–April 5, 2020

• Another World Lies Beyond

  Friday, November 3, 2017, 11:16 p.m.

  August 24, 2019–January 5, 2020

• Kyoto: Capital of Artistic Imagination

  Friday, November 3, 2017, 11:15 p.m.

  July 24, 2019–January 26, 2020

• The Colmar Treasure: A Medieval Jewish Legacy

  Friday, November 3, 2017, 11:14 p.m.

  July 22, 2019–January 12, 2020

• Leonardo da Vinci's Saint Jerome

  Friday, November 3, 2017, 11:13 p.m.

  July 15–October 6, 2019

• Watercolors of the Acropolis: Émile Gilliéron in Athens

  Friday, November 3, 2017, 11:11 p.m.

  May 13, 2019–January 5, 2020

• The Decorated Word: Writing and Picturing in Islamic Calligraphy

  Friday, November 3, 2017, 11:10 p.m.

  April 8–November 3, 2019

• Seeing the Divine: Pahari Painting of North India

  Friday, November 3, 2017, 11:09 p.m.

  December 22, 2018–July 21, 2019

• Atea: Nature and Divinity in Polynesia

  Friday, November 3, 2017, 11:07 p.m.

  November 19, 2018–October 27, 2019

• Children to Immortals: Figural Representations in Chinese Art

  Friday, November 3, 2017, 11:05 p.m.

  August 9, 2018–February 23, 2020

• Met Museum Symposium In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in a Day Will Be Held December 9

  Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 5:28 p.m.

• World Culture Festival: Journeys Explores How Our World Has Been Shaped by People on the Move

  Monday, October 30, 2017, 6:11 p.m.

• Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance

  Tuesday, October 24, 2017, 4:00 p.m.

  August 7, 2017–June 23, 2019
  

• Lauren A. Meserve Named Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 2:51 p.m.

• PAST EXHIBITIONS

  Monday, October 16, 2017, 3:30 p.m.

• Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe

  Monday, October 16, 2017, 2:15 a.m.

  November 25, 2019–March 1, 2020

• Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet

  Monday, October 16, 2017, 2:15 a.m.

  October 29, 2019–January 26, 2020

• First New York Exhibition by The Beautiful Project to Open at The Met's Education Center

  Monday, October 16, 2017, 2:15 a.m.

  December 6, 2019–February 24, 2020

• The Renaissance of Etching

  Monday, October 16, 2017, 2:14 a.m.

  October 23, 2019–January 20, 2020

• Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory

  Monday, October 16, 2017, 2:13 a.m.

  September 24, 2019–January 12, 2020

• The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and
  Ambition of Maximilian I

  Monday, October 16, 2017, 2:12 a.m.

  October 7, 2019–January 5, 2020

• The Roof Garden Commission: Alicja Kwade, ParaPivot

  Monday, October 16, 2017, 2:11 a.m.

  April 16–October 27, 2019