The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in three iconic sites in New York City – The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Breuer, and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online.
Since its founding, The Met has always aspired to be more than a treasury of rare and beautiful objects. Every day, art comes alive in the Museum’s galleries and through its exhibitions and events, revealing both new ideas and unexpected connections across time and across cultures.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded on April 13, 1870, to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction. This statement of purpose has guided the Museum for over 140 years.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
Balthus (bio), Charles Biederman, Franz Kline, Erastus Salisbury Field, Ettore Sottsass, Georgia O’Keeffe, Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol, House of Dior, Garry Winogrand, Joan Miro, Juan Gris, Cy Twombly
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum lives in three iconic sites in New York City – The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Breuer, and The Met Cloisters. Millions of people also take part in The Met experience online.
Since its founding, The Met has always aspired to be more than a treasury of rare and beautiful objects. Every day, art comes alive in the Museum’s galleries and through its exhibitions and events, revealing both new ideas and unexpected connections across time and across cultures.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded on April 13, 1870, to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction. This statement of purpose has guided the Museum for over 140 years.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
Balthus (bio), Charles Biederman, Franz Kline, Erastus Salisbury Field, Ettore Sottsass, Georgia O’Keeffe, Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol, House of Dior, Garry Winogrand, Joan Miro, Juan Gris, Cy Twombly
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It’s a Pink Area: Marc Kokopeli and Sydney SchraderApr 11 – Oct 4, 2026Everything has edges. Has contours. An object or an image always begins somewhere and ends somewhere else, rubbing into whatever is nearby on either side. These edges indicate the area where something meets its own exterior...
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Maria A. Guzmán Capron: PenumbraApr 19 – Sep 27, 2026Step into a world of exuberant color and intricate storytelling with “Maria A. Guzmán Capron: Penumbra.” In this solo exhibition, the California-based artist explores the nuances of identity and the value of connection...
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Arthur Boyd: TapestriesJun 18 – Oct, 18, 2026
Boyd commissioned the tapestries, part of his extensive artistic exploration of the life of Saint Francis, from the Manufactura de Tapeçarias de Portalegre, Portugal, and they were purchased by the National Gallery in 1975
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Dia CenterNew York / Beacon, USADia Center was founded in New York City in 1974 by Philippa de Menil, Heiner Friedrich, and Helen Winkler to help artists achieve visionary projects that might not otherwise be realized because of scale or scope.
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Kishio SugaLong-term viewKishio Suga brings together a representative group of the artist’s sculptures, dating from the 1960s to the ’90s, that probe the slippages between seeing and knowing. Works culled from Dia’s holdings are complemented by key loans...
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Art Week Tokyo 2026November 4–8, 2026
Art Week Tokyo 2026 expands its activation of the city’s diverse array of museums and art spaces. New institutional highlights include Nam June Paik: The 20th Anniversary of His Passing at Watari-um…
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Walker Art CenterMinneapolis, USAThe Walker Art Center is a catalyst for the creative expression of artists and the active engagement of audiences. Focusing on the visual, performing, and media arts of our time, the Walker takes a global, multidisciplinary, and diverse approach...
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Brassaï – The Secret Signs of ParisMar 28 – Oct 4, 2026Brassaï is one of the most famous photographers in the history of photography. In the early 1930s, he set out with his camera on long nocturnal walks through Paris. Revolving around this treasure of images, the exhibition “Brassaï – The Secret Signs of Paris” includes over 160 black-and-white photographs.
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40th Anniversary Archival PresentationMar 19 – Dec 20, 2026The MIT List Visual Arts Center traces its origins to the Hayden Gallery (founded in 1950), which brought artists and the MIT community together through diverse exhibitions and residency projects.
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Shenzhen Art and Technology BiennaleMay 30, 2026 – Apr 30, 2027The inaugural edition of the Shenzhen Art and Technology Biennale (SATB) opens to the public from May 30, 2026, to April 30, 2027 at Shenzhen International Museum of Art (SIMoA). With its theme A Glimpse of the Infinite, this edition is directed by Zikang Zhang.
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Inferno & ParadisoJun 26 – Nov 1, 2026Inferno & Paradiso is an immersive slide-projection exhibition created by Alfredo Jaar, one of the most socially active artists of our day. For this show, Jaar selected 20 contemporary reportage photographers and asked each of them to choose two images from their archives...
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Christina Kubisch. The Emergence of SoundMay 24 – Sep 20, 2026For more than five decades, sound artist and composer Christina Kubisch (born in 1948 in Bremen) has been making artworks at the intersection of visual art and music, combining composition, installation, performance, drawing, video, and electronic music.
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Relic 4: Larry AchiampongOct 16 – Dec 12, 2026This autumn, Larry Achiampong will present his new film Relic 4 (2026) at KARST, revisiting the cinematic universe of the Relic Traveller project after a six-year hiatus. Exploring themes of fallen empire, class, and displacement...
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Fritz ScholderApr 25 – Oct 25, 2026In a softly shimmering blue, then brown, then green, then gray, then pink, then green, then violet, then blue again, the colors of present day New Mexico landscapes are layered horizontally.
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I Want To See A Lighthouseby Gary Briechle
Gary Briechle’s practice is disciplined, almost monastic. Every day roving around Rockland, Maine in an SUV loaded with chemicals, looking at the same mundane scenes and subjects, but expecting different results.
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Sean Scully, 48Apr 18, 2026 – Dec 24, 2028LongHouse welcomes the world-renowned Irish American artist Sean Scully into the garden with his colored stack entitled 48, 2024, a work that epitomizes his deliberate use of stripes and color, with gestures toward land, sea, and sky.
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Schiaparelli: Fashion Becomes ArtMar 28 – Nov 8, 2026
The UK’s first exhibition on Elsa Schiaparelli spans the 1920s to today, celebrating the innovative designer’s influence. It traces the fashion house’s groundbreaking origins and its evolution under current creative director Daniel Roseberry.
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Alex Ayed: TotanoJun 27 – Oct 11, 2026A promise binds the one who makes it to the unknown. By linking the present to an uncertain future, it becomes a form of foundation. To promise is to take responsibility for what does not yet exist.
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