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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met Museum) is New York City’s encyclopedia of art. It covers 5,000 years of human history. The Costume Institute is popular with fashionistas. There are great exhibitions and views on the Met Rooftop. You can have a drink or snack up there.

The Met Cloisters in Upper Manhattan houses some of the Met’s medieval collection.

The Met is an art museum, but it’s really a museum of human culture that tells the story of all of us. Since George Floyd, the Met is showing more African art and changing its own narrative. Thank you!

The Met Museum puts many images and a lot of art history online. You can easily spend days visiting the museum, or the Met Museum website. Either is time well spent.

Metropolitan Museum of Art News

March 7, 2022

Recasting the Colonial Legacy in Art

Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, exposes the duplicity of colonial representations of the Black figure, in contrast to the ways important contemporary artists such as Kara Walker and Kehinde Wiley represent themselves, at the Met Museum in Central Park, Thu, Mar 10, 2022 – Mar 5, 2023. metmuseum.org 🇫🇷🇺🇸

Ongoing

Jacques Louis David: Radical Draftsman, about the leading Neoclassicist working during and after the French Revolution, is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park, Thu, Feb 17 – May 15. metmuseum.org 🇫🇷

In America: A Lexicon of Fashion Part 1 is at the Met Museum Costume Institute through Sep 5. metmuseum.org 🇨🇺🇩🇴🇭🇹🇵🇷|🇨🇱🇻🇪|🇪🇸

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Metropolitan Museum of Art (Suzanne6288/Adobe)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Suzanne6288/Adobe)

Met Museum Tickets

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Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
(at 82nd St)
Central Park, Manhattan

Tickets are good for same day admission to the Met Fifth Avenue and Met Cloisters. New Yorkers can pay what you wish.

Subways
(4) (5) (6) to 86th St.
(M)(N)(Q)(R) to 86th St

From the West Side
(1) to 86th St. Take the M86 bus across town to Fifth Avenue
(C) to 81st St. Take the M79 bus across town to Fifth Avenue

Metropolitan Museum of Art Galleries with Latin Art

Greek and Roman Art

The Greek and Roman Art gallery contains art from Italy and from the height of the Roman expansion around the Mediterranean. I always thought the Romans copied Greek culture. Actually, they absorbed the culture  of Greek settlers in the shoe of Italy and Sicily. Migration can be a very good thing.

Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

The Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas gallery displays art by Native Americans.

The African Origin of Civilization compares West African, Central African and Egyptian art to show how human civilization began in Africa, from Dec 14, 2021 ongoing. metmuseum.org 🇧🇯🇨🇩🇪🇬🇨🇮🇬🇭🇲🇱🇬🇳🇳🇬🇸🇸

Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room is ongoing. 🇺🇸

Modern And Contemporary Art

The Modern and Contemporary Art gallery displays masterworks from when Paris was the global center of art.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

The European Sculpture and Decorative Arts gallery displays large-scale European sculptures and some decorative arts from Latin America.

Robert Lehman Collection

The Robert Lehman Collection contains European art and decorative objects including Italian Maiolica glass.

Medieval Art

The Medieval Art gallery surveys European art from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance.

Arms and Armor

The Arms and Armor gallery displays European armor.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a Place to “Dream Together”

Met Museum Reopens so we can "Dream Together" Yoko Ono 2020 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Met Museum Reopens so we can “Dream Together” Yoko Ono 2020 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

August 2020 is the first time The Met has commissioned its entrance banners.

Yoko Ono has always been a minimalist poet. Ono offers “Pu,” the taoist uncarved block that represents both infinite possibility and the containment of infinity. That’s a clever description of The Met Museum.

The artist gives us two words to express her dream. Of course, it is “Dream Together.”

There is no better place in the world than New York City to dream together.

Take a Ride Down Museum Mile

Metropolitan Museum of Art (Suzanne6288/Adobe)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Suzanne6288/Adobe)

“The Met” was founded in 1870 and moved to its main location in Central Park in 1880. The Met Fifth Avenue has a Beaux-Arts facade in front of over two million square feet of museum.

If you ride down Fifth Avenue on a summer night, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will be one of the scenes that stays in your mind. The Museum is like a golden nugget sticking right out of Central Park.

Past Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibitions

Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts is at the Met Museum in Central Park from Fri, Dec 10, 2021 – March 6, 2022. metmuseum.org 🇫🇷

Surrealism Beyond Borders is at the Met Museum Oct 11, 2021 – Jan 30, 2022. metmuseum.org 🇲🇽|🇨🇺🇭🇹🇵🇷🇲🇶|🇦🇷🇨🇴🇵🇪|🇪🇬🇪🇹🇲🇿|🇻🇺|🇫🇷🇮🇹🇵🇹🇷🇴🇪🇸

Spain, 1000-1200: Art at the Frontiers of Faith is at the Met Cloisters through January 30, 2022. metmuseum.org 🇪🇸

Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Revolution, Resistance, and Activism is at the Met Museum in Central Park through Jan 17, 2022. metmuseum.org 🇫🇷🇭🇹🇮🇳🇲🇽🇪🇸

The Met Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche is at the Met Museum in Central Park through Jan 9, 2022. metmuseum.org 🇮🇹

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