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The Face of Life: Modern Portraits at The Met examines the language of portraiture from about 1900 to the 1960s through nearly 80 works from The Met collection by artists including Leonora Carrington, Elizabeth Catlett, Marsden Hartley, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, René Magritte, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso, Florine Stettheimer, and others. As the Museum prepares for the opening in 2030 of the new Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing for Modern and Contemporary Art, this installation of modern paintings, sculpture, and design objects offers a chance to revisit highlights and discover recent acquisitions by Wifredo Lam, Francis Picabia, and Laura Wheeler Waring that connect across history and the larger Met collection. |
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| Set in the evocative atmosphere of The Met Cloisters, Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas sheds light on a selection of works created on either side of the Atlantic Ocean between 500 and 1500 CE. The exhibition's exploration of hybrid creatures deepens our understanding of their apparent necessity among diverse peoples. In the Americas, a complex gold pendant by a Tairona artist of northern Colombia, depicting a confrontational figure with hands on hips, a crocodile-like head, and an enormous headdress, would have reflected and expressed the wearer's status and power. In Europe, ferocious dragons such as the one depicted on a monumental fresco from the monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza, Spain, took center stage to convey a multiplicity of meanings both sacred and profane. |
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June 7–September 27, 2026
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For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit The Face of Life: Modern Portraits at The Met, Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas, Embracing Color: Enamel in Chinese Decorative Arts, 1300–1900, Flip Sides: Seeing Korean Art Anew, Household Gods: Hindu Devotional Prints, 1860–1930, The Infinite Artistry of Japanese Ceramics, Musical Bodies, Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur, Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy, The Magical City: George Morrison's New York, Iba Ndiaye: Between Latitude and Longitude, The Genesis Facade Commission: Jeffrey Gibson, The Animal That Therefore I Am, and Raphael: Sublime Poetry.
For a full list of education program funders, please visit metmuseum.org/educationfundingsupport.
Images: Henri Matisse, Young Sailor II (detail), 1906. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998 | Tairona artist(s), Figure Pendant, Colombia, 900-1600 CE. Gold. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jan Mitchell and Sons Collection, Gift of Jan Mitchell, 1991 (1991.419.31) | Covered box with hibiscuses and grape vines (detail). China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), mid-15th century. Cloisonné enamel. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift of Clara and Theodore Wang | Korea, Kashyapa (detail), dated 1700. Wood with polychrome paint, H. 22 in. (55.9 cm); W. 9 in. (22.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1942 (42.25.8) | Subramaniyan with his consorts Valli and Devasena (detail), Ravi Varma Press, c. 1900–1915, Color lithograph, varnish. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Friends of Asian Art, 2021 | Dish with Three Jars. Edo period (1615–1868), 1680–90s. Porcelain with cobalt under and polychrome enamels over a transparent glaze (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type), H. 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm); Diam. 6 in. (15.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975 (1975.268.563) | Thomas Zach, Violino Harpa Forma Maxima, 1874. Wood (spruce, maple, ebony), metal strings. Collections Musée de la musique / Cliché Claude Germain, 2020. Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris | Alberto Giacometti, Woman of Venice II, 1956. Painted bronze. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998 © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York | Jean-Léon Gérôme, Bashi-Bazouk (detail), 1868–69. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2008 | The Antagonist, 1956. Oil on canvas, 34 1/8 x 50 1/16 in. (86.7 x 127.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Mrs. Helen Meredith Norcross. © George Morrison Estate. Photo © Whitney Museum of American Art / Licensed by Scala / Art Resource, NY. | Iba Ndiaye (Saint-Louis 1928–2008 Paris). Tabaski III (detail), 1970. Oil on plywood. H. 59 1/16 x W 98 7/16 in (H 150 x W 250 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift of Margo and Anthony Viscusi. © Estate of Iba Ndiaye | Jeffrey Gibson (a member of the Mississippi band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, born 1972). The Animal That Therefore I Am: they teach us to be sensitive and to trust our instincts, issi / awi / deer (detail), 2025. Patinated bronze. Courtesy the artist |
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