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Metropolitan Museum of Art Upcoming Exhibitions

NEW YORK CITY – The Metropolitan September 9) will focus on the work of
Museum of Art has announced its African American potters in the 19th-
lineup of exhibitions for the second half century American South through 50
of 2022, which, in keeping with its ceramic objects produced at a center
mission, will present art from around the known for stoneware in the decades
world and across all times and cultures in before the Civil War and present them in
the Museum’s galleries. dialogue with contemporary artistic
Highlights of The Met’s summer responses. The Tudors: Art and Majesty in
exhibitions include: Kimono Style: The Renaissance England (opening October
John C. Weber Collection, which will trace 10) will trace the transformation of the
the evolution of the kimono from the late arts in Tudor England through more
18th through the early 20th century; than 100 objects—including iconic
Water Memories, exploring water’s portraits, spectacular tapestries, manu-
significance to Indigenous peoples and scripts, sculpture, and armor—from both
Nations in the United States through The Met collection and international
historical, modern, and contemporary artworks; Chroma: Ancient lenders. Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition (opening October 20)
Sculpture in Color, which will present new discoveries of surviving ancient will offer a radically new view of Cubism by demonstrating its engage-
color on artworks in The Met’s world-class collection with a series of ment with the age-old tradition of trompe l’oeil painting. In Lives of
reconstructions of ancient sculptures in color presented alongside original the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art (opening November 21), rarely seen
Greek and Roman works representing similar subjects; the posthumous masterpieces and recent discoveries trace the life cycle of the gods.
retrospective Bernd & Hilla Becher, celebrating how the renowned The Met’s current exhibition offerings include In America: An
German artists changed the course of late-20th century photography; Anthology of Fashion (through September 5, 2022), the second of a two-
and, Michael Lin: Pentachrome (opening August 15), which is inspired by part Costume Institute exhibition that examines the development of
The Met collection and the building’s architecture and will bring American fashion in the 19th to mid-late 20th century through narratives
contemporary art to the Museum’s Great Hall escalator for the first time. that relate to the histories of the American Wing period rooms in which
The fall season will also bring a wide array of exhibitions. Hear Me they are staged. Part One, In America: A Lexicon of Fashion (also through
Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina (opening September 5, 2022), explores a modern vocabulary of American fashion.
Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast (through March 5, 2023) is the
first exhibition at The Met to examine Western sculpture in relation to
the histories of transatlantic slavery, colonialism, and empire.
To learn more about these and other exhibits and events happening at
The Met visit https://www.metmuseum.org/

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