The Met to Offer Ticketed Evening Hours for "Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer" and "David Hockney"

"A Night at The Met" Timed-Entry Tickets
Will Be Offered on Only 10 Nights

Image (left): Michelangelo Buonarroti (Italian, Caprese 1475–1564 Rome), Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso), ca. 1510-11, red chalk, with small accents of white chalk on the left shoulder of the figure in the main study (recto); soft black chalk, or less probably charcoal (verso), sheet: 11 3/8 x 8 7/16 in. (28.9 x 21.4 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1924.
Image (right): David Hockney, Mt. Fuji and Flowers, 1972, acrylic on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Mrs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger Gift, 1972 (1972.128). © David Hockney

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is offering ticketed evening viewing hours—10 nights only—for Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer and David Hockney, both of which have been attracting thousands of visitors a day. "A Night at The Met" tickets are being offered at $125 for entry to see both exhibitions during hours when the Museum is normally closed. Entry times will be at 6 p.m., 7 p.m., and 8 p.m. on the following dates: December 26, 27, and 28, and January 2, 3, 4, 9, 16, 23, and 30. Each entry time will be limited to approximately 150 people, allowing visitors a more intimate experience of these enormously popular exhibitions. Each ticket includes a complimentary Audio Guide and admission to all three of The Met's locations on the following day.

Tickets are available for purchase through Viator/TripAdvisor.

About the Exhibitions:

Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer, on view through February 12, 2018, presents a stunning range and number of works by the artist: 133 of his drawings, three of his marble sculptures, his earliest painting, and his wood architectural model for a chapel vault. A substantial body of complementary works by some artists who were influenced by Michelangelo or worked in collaboration with him are also on view for comparison and context. This exhibition offers a unique chance to see the artist's creative process first-hand and understand why Michelangelo was called Il divino ("the divine one") by his contemporaries.

David Hockney, on view through February 25, 2018, honors the artist in the year of his 80th birthday by presenting his most iconic works and key moments of his career from 1960 to the present. Working in a wide range of media with equal measures of wit and intelligence, Hockney has examined, probed, and questioned how to capture the perceived world of movement, space, and time in two dimensions. The exhibition offers a grand overview of the artist's achievements across all media, including painting, drawing, photography, and video.