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<em>Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art</em>

Art: Painting & Drawing

Designing Nature

Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Rinpa" is a modern term that refers to a distinctive style of Japanese pictorial and applied arts that arose in the... 

The Coe Collection of American Indian Art

Art

The Coe Collection of American Indian Art

Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Drawn from works given and bequeathed to the Met Museum during the past decade by Ralph T. Coe of Santa Fe,... 

Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video

Art: Multimedia

Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video

Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Since the 1980s, a number of contemporary artists working in photography, film, and video have taken as their subject the art... 

New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

Art

New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

More than 1,000 works from the distinguished collection of the Met Museum's Department of Islamic Art—one of the most comprehensive gatherings... 

New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts

Art

New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts

Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This third and final phase of the American Wing renovation project comprises 26 renovated and enlarged galleries for the Met Museum’s... 

Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son

Art

Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son

Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

This exhibition features a selection of early 20th-century reproductions of now-famous works of art from Sir Arthur Evans’s historic excavations of... 

The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde

Art

The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde

Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael’s wife Sarah were important patrons of modern art in Paris during the... 

<em>The Printed Image in China, 8th-21st Century</em>

Art

The Printed Image in China, 8th-21st Century

Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

China invented both paper and printing, and this exhibition presents an outstanding survey of the art of Chinese printing from the... 

Tom&aacute;s Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City

Cultural Hybrid

Tomás Saraceno on the Roof: Cloud City

Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artist Tomás Saraceno (born in Tucumán, Argentina, in 1973) will create a constellation of large, interconnected modules constructed with transparent and... 

<em>Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations</em>

Fashion/Style

Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations

Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met's Spring 2012 Costume Institute exhibition, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, explores the striking affinities between Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia... 

<em>The Dawn of Egyptian Art</em>

Art

The Dawn of Egyptian Art

Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

During the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods (ca. 4000-2650 B.C.), people living in the Nile Valley began recording their beliefs through... 

Bellini, Titian, and Lotto: <em>North Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo</em>

Art: Painting & Drawing

Bellini, Titian, and Lotto

Today @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, is a jewel among Italian museums and a haven for art lovers. Founded at the end of... 

Ellsworth Kelly: <em>Plant Drawings</em>

Art: Painting & Drawing

Ellsworth Kelly

Tuesday 6/ 5 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

One of the foremost artists of our day, Ellsworth Kelly (American, b. 1923) may be best known for his rigorous abstract...