Category: The Met New York

  • Unlocking the stories behind the art

    Unlocking the stories behind the art

    Through the Smartify free app, users can unlock the stories behind art and create a digital personal art collection. Smartify has now partnered with some of the world’s most popular museums.   Love visiting art galleries but hate not knowing the stories behind the artworks? Wish you could carry your favourite art with you, and…

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  • David Hockney retrospective at the Centre Pompidou

    David Hockney retrospective at the Centre Pompidou

    In collaboration with London’s Tate Britain and the Metropolitan Museum of New York, the Centre Pompidou is to present the most comprehensive retrospective ever devoted to the work of David Hockney. The exhibition celebrates the artist’s 80th birthday, retracing his entire career through more than 160 works (paintings, photographs, engravings, video installations, drawings and printed…

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  • Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical at The Met

    When the Memphis design movement debuted its first collection, spectators lined up early on to gawk but, aside from a devoted few (Karl Lagerfeld and David Bowie among them), not necessarily to buy. Now the innovative group’s leader, Ettore Sottsass, has reemerged, inspiring Greenpoint ceramicists, Supreme collaborations, and an exhibit at the Met Breuer from July 21 –…

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  • Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garçons at The Met

    Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garçons at The Met

    The Costume Institute’s spring 2017 exhibition examines the work of fashion designer Rei Kawakubo, known for her avant-garde designs and ability to challenge conventional notions of beauty, good taste, and fashionability. The thematic show features approximately 140 examples of Kawakubo’s womenswear for Comme des Garçons dating from the early 1980s to her most recent collection, many…

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  • Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion at The Met

    Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion at The Met

    The Met Costume Institute’s Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion exhibition will feature significant acquisitions of the past 10 years and explore how the department has honed its collecting strategy to amass masterworks of the highest aesthetic and technical quality, including iconic works by designers who have changed fashion history and advanced fashion as an art form. During the…

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  • Diane Arbus’ In The Beginning exhibition in its final week

    Diane Arbus’ In The Beginning exhibition in its final week

    The Diane Arbus In The Beginning exhibition (12 July – 27 Nov 2016) is in its final week, after running for four months at The Met, New York. This landmark exhibition features more than 100 photographs that together redefine Diane Arbus (1923–1971), one of the most influential and provocative artists of the 20th century. It…

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