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Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York: the rich exhibition program until May 2025

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s upcoming program includes more than a dozen new exhibitions and introduces audiences to impressive loans and new ways to interact with displays from the Museum’s collection.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) in New York: the rich exhibition program until May 2025

Season highlights include Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature (opening February 8), presented in honor of the 250th anniversary of Friedrich's birth in 2024 and the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States devoted to the artist, whose paintings ushered in a radically new understanding of the connection between nature and the inner self; and Sargent and Paris (which will open on April 27th), an in-depth look at the artist's decades-long career in 19th-century France, culminating in the iconic Madame X, a beloved centerpiece of The Met's collection. On May 10, the Museum will unveil the Costume Institute's spring 2025 exhibition, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, a cultural and historical examination of the black dandy from 1700 to the present day, and Lorna Simpson will open on May 19th: Source Notes , the first exhibition to consider the artist's entire painting practice to date, highlighting how her work explores gender, race, identity, representation and history.

On May 31, the Museum will officially reopen the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

Following a complete reimagining of the 40.000-square-foot series of galleries devoted to the arts of Africa, the ancient Americas, and Oceania. These three great global traditions will present themselves as independent entities in a wing that engages with neighboring gallery spaces and will present more than 1.800 works spanning five continents and hundreds of cultures. The revamped wing’s many highlights include a new featured gallery debuting with the presentation Iba NDiaye: Between Latitude and Longitude, showcasing the Senegalese modernist’s work in relation to the artist’s diverse source material from across the Met.

Furthermore: Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900 (opening February 28), a comprehensive presentation of the important but often overlooked category of bronzes as an art form throughout China's long history; Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie (opening March 24), a reimagining of the history of European porcelain through a feminist lens, exploring how this fragile material shaped both European women's identities and racial and cultural stereotypes of Asian women; The New Art: American Photography, 1839–1910 (opening April 11), which examines the dramatic shift in the nation's sense of self, driven by the immediate success of photography as a cultural, commercial, artistic, and psychological concern; and The Roof Garden Commission: Jennie C. Jones, Ensemble (opening April 15), a new work by the artist that interprets the strings of acoustic instruments as proxies for art history. A list of upcoming exhibitions and installations can also be found on the Met's website.

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