The Met Announces Upcoming 2018 Exhibitions
Highlights of the upcoming 2018 exhibition season are:
Unknown American makers and Daisy Studio (American, active 1940s). Studio Portraits, 1940s–50s. Gelatin silver prints. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2015, 2017 (2017.560, 2015.339, 2015.309, 2015.338, 2017.591, 2017.636, 2015.328, 2015.344)
African American Portraits: Photographs from the 1940s and 1950s
June 26–October 8, 2018
Egon Schiele. Self-Portrait, 1911. Watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso
from the Scofield-Thayer Collection
July 3–October 7, 2018
Location: The Met Breuer
Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863). The Giaour on Horseback, 1824–26. Pen and iron gall ink with wash over graphite. 7 15/16 x 12 in. (20.1 x 30.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift from the Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix, in honor of Jane Roberts, 2015 (2015.713.2)
Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix
July 17–November 12, 2018
Gilded Coffin Lid for the Priest Nedjemankh (detail). Late Ptolemaic Period (150–50 B.C.). Cartonnage, gold, silver, resin, glass, wood. Purchase, 2017 Benefit Fund; Lila Acheson Wallace Gift; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; Leona Sobel Education and The Camille M. Lownds Funds; and 2016 Benefit Fund, 2017 (2017.255b). Image: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin
July 20, 2018–April 21, 2019
Jack Whitten. The Tomb of Socrates, 2009. Wild cypress, black mulberry, marble, brass, mixed media. Collection of the Artist's Estate © The Estate of Jack Whitten. Courtesy The Estate of Jack Whitten and Hauser & Wirth
Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963-2017
September 6–December 2, 2018
Location: The Met Breuer
Eugène Delacroix. Self-Portrait in a Green Vest, ca. 1837. Oil on canvas. Musée du Louvre, Paris © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY. Photo: Michel Urtado
Delacroix
September 17, 2018–January 6, 2019
Lutz Bacher. The Lee Harvey Oswald Interview (detail), 1976. Collage in 18 parts. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel and Anonymous Gift, 1999. Courtesy of the artist and Greene Naftali, New York
Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy
September 18, 2018–January 6, 2019
Location: The Met Breuer
Altar Frontal (detail). New Julfa, 1741. Gold, silver, and silk threads on silk. Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, Armenia. Photo: Hrair Hawk Khatcherian and Lilit Khachatryan
Armenia!
September 22, 2018–January 13, 2019
Tsimshian artist. Headdress frontlet, ca. 1820–40. British Columbia. Wood, abalone shell, pigment, and metal, 7 x 6 x 1/2 in. (17.8 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm). The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Promised Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker
Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection
October 4, 2018–October 6, 2019
Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, Delft 1632-1675 Delft). Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, ca. 1662. Oil on canvas, 18 x 16 in. (45.7 x 40.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Marquand Collection, Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1889
In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met
Opening October 16, 2018
Jacopo Tintoretto. Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait?), 1550s? Oil on canvas, private collection
Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings
October 16, 2018–January 27, 2019
Outside to center: Broad Collar of Wah, Egyptian, ca. 1981.1975 B.C. (40.3.2); Bracelet with Crocodile Heads, Edo peoples (Court of Benin, Nigeria), 17th–19th century (1991.17.80); Yves Saint Laurent (French, born Algeria), Earrings, 1983–84 (2009.300.2224a, b); Serpent Labret with Articulated Tongue, Aztec (Central Mexico), 1300–1521 (2016.64); René-Jules Lalique (French, 1860–1945), Necklace, ca. 1897–99 (1985.114); Comb with Rooster, Baule peoples (central Côte d’Ivoire), 19th–20th century (1980.430); Necklace with Leaf-Shaped Pendants, Javanese, second half of the 9th–first quarter of the 10th century (1998.544.11a–i); Headdress Ornament, Calima-Yotoco (Colombia), 1st–7th century (66.196.24). Image: © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Jewelry: The Body Transformed
November 12, 2018–February 24, 2019
Flywhisk (tahiri); Austral Islands. Wood, human hair, coconut fiber cord; H. 81.3 cm. Metropolitan Museum of Art
Atea: Nature and Divinity in Polynesia
November 19, 2018–October 27, 2019
Jackson Pollock. Number 28, 1950 (detail), 1950. Enamel on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection, Gift of Muriel Kallis Newman, in honor of her grandchildren, Ellen Steinberg Coven and Dr. Peter Steinberg, 2006 © 2018 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Epic Abstraction: Pollock to Herrera
Opening November 28, 2018
Location: The Met Breuer