The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

06/18/2025

Celebrate Pride with The Met. 🏳️‍🌈

Explore the remarkable contributions of the LGBTQIA+ community through exhibitions, events, digital content, and more.

Celebrate LGBTQIA+ Pride Month at The Met this June with art, talks, and more.

06/17/2025

Nobel Prize–winning author Orhan Pamuk visits The Met nearly every weekend—drawn in by what he calls the “museum-ness” of the Museum.

Join Mr. Pamuk for a look at the works that have inspired his writing for many years as he relays his journey from painter to writer and back again.

Watch the full video: met.org/40a8vxl

06/15/2025

Often, the most profound moments between fathers and their children are captured in life's simplest gestures.

John Ahearn’s plaster sculpture "Michael Weathers Greeting His Father" captures a tender interaction between father and son. Known for his vibrant, lifelike portraits of neighbors and friends from the South Bronx, Ahearn invites us to reflect on everyday relationships as worthy subjects for art.

Here, Weathers gently cradles his father’s elbow, whispering something as his dad leans in to listen—a reminder of the intimate moments that bind us together.

Happy to all the dads, stepfathers, grandfathers, brother, uncles, and mentors who help us on our journeys.

🎨 John Ahearn (American, 1951). Michael Weathers Greeting his Father, 1993. Acrylic on plaster

06/14/2025

Explore how Black style shaped history. ✨

Go behind the scenes on June 20 for "Making Superfine," where guest curator Monica L. Miller will be joined by artists Torkwase Dyson and Tanda Francis to share stories about bringing the artistic vision for “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” to life.

Learn more: met.org/4dWfrE9

06/13/2025

Lights, Camera, Action!⁣ 🎞️⁣
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Join The Met’s Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art for a three-part film series featuring dozens of short films made between 1895 and 1972 that collectively explore the gothic imagination.

🎥 Friday, June 27 (7 pm)⁣⁣⁣
Program One: Ghosts and Mirrors

🎥 Saturday, June 28 (7 pm)
Program Two: Monsters and Martyrs
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🎥 Sunday, June 29 (2 pm)
Program Three: The Dark and The Deep

Free with Museum admission; advance registration is recommended. Learn more: met.org/4mWvBS1

06/12/2025

Rediscover the arts of Africa, the ancient Americas, and Oceania in The Met’s transformed galleries.

Explore the reimagined Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, thoughtfully redesigned in collaboration with international experts and shaped by the latest research. Discover deeper, more expansive stories behind the objects on view.

Plan your visit and be among the first to experience the .

Learn more: met.org/4mYhOdq

06/11/2025

Met Date Night: When you want to get out but still be in bed by 10 pm ✨

Join us every Friday and Saturday until 9 pm for Date Night! Bring your friends or someone special and enjoy an evening of drinks, live music, and 5,000 years of art.

Learn more: met.org/DateNight

06/11/2025

Celebrate the creativity of students across NYC at the 23rd annual P.S. Art exhibition!

This juried exhibition showcases 137 works by NYC public school students from pre-K through grade 12. Explore collages, drawings, mixed-media works, paintings, photographs, prints, and sculptures. Each artwork reflects personal expression, imaginative use of media, and a deep understanding of artistic processes.

Join us in honoring these young artists and their dedicated teachers from all five boroughs, including District 75, a citywide district serving students with disabilities.

🎨 Ella Jiang (Grade 8), Keyhole. Watercolor. Frank D. Paulo I.S. 75, Staten Island. Teacher: Allison Imparato

🎨 Liv Lodzinski (Grade 1), The Owl That’s Really Strong and the Moon That’s Bright. Watercolor and pen on paper. STAR Academy P.S. 63, Manhattan. Teacher: Aaron Bos-Wahl

🎨 Ella Kenny (Grade 12), The Old Woman. Mixed media. Edward R. Murrow High School, Brooklyn. Teacher: Carlos Rosado

🎨 Lydia Batista (Grade 7), Dumpling House. Watercolor, pencil, and ink. Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy, Bronx. Teacher: Michelle Hill

🎨 Ishaq Mubin (Grade 5), Cityscape. Acrylic and oil pastel. P.S. 63 Old South School, Queens. Teacher: Christine Panaro

06/08/2025

This Pride Month, we honor artists like David Wojnarowicz who fought to be seen—and made space for others to do the same. 🏳️‍🌈

This sculpture—a painted pig skull wrapped in barbed wire, pierced with nails, and gripping a globe of $100 bills—was part of Wojnarowicz's first solo show in 1984. A clock replaces one eye, and fragments of a map cover the skull. These symbols—time, money, borders—were Wojnarowicz’s way of exposing a corrupt system that devalues q***r lives and pushes people to the margins.

As the AIDS crisis escalated and his partner Peter Hujar died, Wojnarowicz’s work became even more political. He used his voice and vision to rage against government inaction, homophobia, and censorship—making work that demanded attention and action.

Explore the remarkable contributions of the LGBTQIA+ community through exhibitions, events, digital content, and more: met.org/43MNTwm

🎨 David Wojnarowicz (American, 1954–1992). Untitled, 1984. Bone Skull, papier-maché, barbed wire, battery, watch, and rusty nails. © Estate of David Wojnarowicz.

06/08/2025

Celebrate the legacy of trailblazing actress Anna May Wong.

On June 22, join us for a special screening of the 1922 film "The Toll of the Sea"—Wong's first leading role.

Before the screening, hear from curator Iris Moon on the exhibition "Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie," followed by an introduction from Katie Gee Salisbury, author of "Not Your China Doll"

After the film, stay for closing remarks by Anna Wong, the actress’s niece and namesake.

Learn more: met.org/4kBnhFB

🎨 Travis Banton (American, 1894–1958). Evening dress, 1934. Silk.

06/07/2025

Only want to see you in the purple rain 💜

Prince was born on this day in 1958. Defying boundaries of race, gender, and sexuality, the legendary musician used fashion to disrupt expectations and redefine identity and artistry.

Designed by Louis Wells and Vaughn Terry Jelks, this top was worn by Prince during his iconic Purple Rain tour. Pearl buttons and jeweled "cuff links" accentuate the garment's exuberant dandyism.

Around the era of his groundbreaking 1984 album and film Purple Rain, ruffled Regency-inspired shirts and tailored tailcoats became Prince’s signature—a New Romantic echo of early 19th-century dandyism and the peacock styles of 1960s London. Drawing inspiration from the sartorial theatrics of musicians like Little Richard and James Brown, he incorporated traditionally “feminine” touches such as lace, ruffles, sequins, and bold color and pattern into his stage costumes throughout his career.

See this blouse on view now in "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style."

🎨 Shirt worn by Prince, Louis Wells (American, 1957–2018) and Vaughn Terry Jelks (American, born 1950) for Louis & Vaughn (American, founded 1981), ca. 1984; Vaughn Terry Jelks Collection.

06/05/2025

LAST CHANCE–Experience The Genesis Facade Commission: Lee Bul, “Long Tail Halo” before it closes June 10. ✨

The four sculptures are Lee Bul’s first major project in the United States in more than twenty years and the fifth in the series of contemporary commissions for The Met Fifth Avenue’s facade niches.

Widely recognized as the preeminent artist from South Korea, Lee Bul is known for her sophisticated use of both highly industrial and labor-intensive materials, incorporating artisanal practices as well as technological advancements into her work.

Her sculptures, often evoking bodily forms that are at once classical and futuristic, address the aspirations and disillusions that come with progress.

See the , displayed on the Museum’s exterior.
Genesis Worldwide

🎨 Lee Bul (South Korean, born 1964). Long Tail Halo: CTCS #2 (detail). 2024. Stainless steel, ethylene-vinyl acetate, carbon fiber, paint, polyurethane.

06/04/2025

📣 Calling all educators! Join us for the Connecting Collections Summer Institute beginning July 7.

Throughout the week, educators from The Met, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum will guide you through techniques for analyzing and interpreting modern and contemporary art and applying object-based teaching strategies in the classroom and beyond.

Submit your application by June 21. Learn more: met.org/440ix6o

06/03/2025

Experience The American Wing in a whole new way!

Join us on June 13 for a panel discussion featuring fresh insights from artists, authors, and historians who contributed to the wing’s updated audio guides. Celebrate the 100th anniversary of The American Wing and explore reinstalled galleries highlighting diverse stories from its expansive collection of historical art and design.

Learn more: met.org/3ZNSooW

06/02/2025

Join us June 14 for a Creative Convening celebrating "The New Art: American Photography, 1839–1910"

Engage with themes found in the exhibition through dynamic conversations, presentations, and readings by leading scholars artists, and photographers. Explore a bold new history of American photography from the medium’s birth in 1839 to the first decade of the 20th century.

Learn more: met.org/43svkNM

06/02/2025

The Museum Mile Festival is back! Kick off your summer and celebrate 400 years of New York. 💫

Join us Tuesday, June 10, for a celebration of art, culture, and creativity along Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile—New York City's iconic museum-filled street.

Stop by The Met to create art, catch a performance, and check out our current exhibitions, including the newly opened "P.S. Art: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids."

The Museum Mile festival is co-organized with:

-Neue Galerie New York
-Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
-Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum
-The Jewish Museum
-Museum of the City of New York
-El Museo del Barrio
-The Africa Center

Learn more: met.org/4mElyAP

06/01/2025

Join Met curators on June 17 for an exploration of The Met’s newly reopened Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, featuring the arts of Africa, the ancient Americas, and Oceania. Curators will share insights into the cultural significance of select objects in their newly designed spaces.

Learn more: met.org/45A0Hs9

05/31/2025

NOW ON VIEW– The Met's arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania galleries have returned in a reimagined Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.

Spanning 40,000 square feet and designed by Kulapat Yantrasast, the galleries present distinct collections that represent diverse cultural traditions, from as early as 3000 BCE to the present.

Discover major acquisitions on view for the first time, including historic and contemporary works in the arts of Africa galleries, light-sensitive ancient Andean textiles, and powerful new commissions by Indigenous Pacific artists.

05/30/2025

Consider this your invitation! ✉️ ✨

Join us Saturday, May 31 to see The Met’s new Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, featuring the Museum’s collections of the arts of Africa, the ancient Americas, and Oceania. Enjoy an afternoon of live music, interactive art making, gallery chats, and more—all inspired by the incredible works on view.

The celebration kicks off at noon with a performance by Grammy Award–winning Mariachi Real de México on the plaza. Throughout the day, contribute to a communal mural inspired by a Ceremonial House Ceiling from Papua New Guinea, see traditional weaving demonstrations by artists from Polynesia and Peru, connect with curators, scholars, and more.

Learn more: met.org/3EX1bOe

05/30/2025

"Soaring above one of The Met's new Galleries of Oceania, one of the museum's most iconic artworks from the Pacific...you put it together and it becomes the universe."–PBS News Hour

Discover the newly renovated arts of Oceania galleries at The Met.

The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, featuring the arts of Africa, the ancient Americas, and Oceania opens to the public May 31.

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is opening its Galleries of the Arts of Oceania to the public for the first time since 2021. It comes after a major renovation that allowed curators to reimagine how to present art from the vast region. Senior Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown reports for our a...

05/28/2025

"Go for the pure visual pleasure of the work there — believe me, it’ll have your eyes spinning — and go for the still unfolding histories it tells." —The New York Times

Discover the arts of Africa, the ancient Americas, and Oceania in The Met’s newly reimagined Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, reopening May 31.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller collection from Africa, the Ancient Americas and Oceania reopens with a pantheon of historic art stars.

05/27/2025

Celebrate the new Michael C. Rockefeller Wing with a special film screening and conversation highlighting Africa’s cultural landmarks.

Join us at African Film Festival, Inc. Thursday, May 29 at BAM for a selection of short films from a new series directed by Sosena Solomon and produced in collaboration with World Monuments Fund. These films spotlight twelve distinctive landmarks across sub-Saharan Africa. Afterward, hear behind-the-scenes stories directly from the experts who contributed to the filmmaking process.

Gain deeper insight into the significance of these remarkable sites and explore Africa’s extraordinary cultural diversity.

Learn more: met.org/3YZCcRm

05/26/2025

Step into the newly reimagined Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, home to The Met’s collections of the arts of Africa, the ancient Americas, and Oceania. ✨

Join us this Saturday, May 31, for an afternoon of music, art making, gallery talks, and more as we celebrate the opening of these extraordinary new galleries.

Learn more: met.org/CelebrateMCRW

05/25/2025

Explore the many lives of porcelain.

Join Met curator Iris Moon to uncover the stories of porcelain and Europe's fascination with the material, sparked by the first ships returning from Asia in the 16th century.

Visit “Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie” through August 17.

Watch the full exhibition tour: met.org/45bEQaD