Upcoming Spring Exhibitions 2025 @ THE MET
Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie
WHEN: March 25–August 17, 2025
WHERE: The Met Fifth Avenue
Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie radically reimagines the story of European porcelain through a feminist lens. When porcelain arrived in early modern Europe from China, it led to the rise of chinoiserie, a decorative style that encompassed Europe's fantasies of the East and fixations on the exotic, along with new ideas about women, sexuality, and race. This exhibition explores how this fragile material shaped both European women's identities and racial and cultural stereotypes around Asian women. Shattering the illusion of chinoiserie as a neutral, harmless fantasy, Monstrous Beauty adopts a critical glance at the historical style and its afterlives, recasting negative terms through a lens of female empowerment.
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The New Art: American Photography, 1839–1910
April 11–July 20, 2025
The Met Fifth Avenue
This exhibition presents a bold new history of American photography from the medium's birth in 1839 to the first decade of the 20th century. Drawn from The Met's William L. Schaeffer Collection, major works by lauded artists such as Josiah Johnson Hawes, John Moran, Carleton Watkins, and Alice Austen are shown in dialogue with extraordinary photographs by obscure or unknown practitioners made in small towns and cities from coast to coast. Featuring a range of formats, from daguerreotypes and cartes de visite to stereographs and cyanotypes, the show explores the dramatic change in the nation's sense of itself that was driven by the immediate success of photography as a cultural, commercial, artistic, and psychological preoccupation. In 1835, even before the nearly simultaneous announcement of the invention of the new art in Paris and London, the American philosopher essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson noted with remarkable vision: "Our Age is Ocular."
The Roof Garden Commission: Jennie C. Jones, Ensemble
April 15–October 19, 2025
The Met Fifth Avenue
Sargent and Paris
April 27–August 3, 2025
The Met Fifth Avenue
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style
May 10–October 26, 2025
The Met Fifth Avenue
Lorna Simpson: Source Notes
May 19–November 2, 2025
The Met Fifth Avenue
Iba Ndiaye: Between Latitude and Longitude
May 31, 2025–May 31, 2026
The Met Fifth Avenue
Arts of Africa
May 31–Ongoing
The Met Fifth Avenue
Arts of Oceania
May 31–Ongoing
The Met Fifth Avenue
Arts of the Ancient Americas
May 31–Ongoing
The Met Fifth Avenue
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