NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today its upcoming exhibition schedule, through May 2025. The dynamic lineup includes over a dozen new exhibitions and introduces audiences to impressive loans and new ways to engage with the Museum’s collection displays.
“The remarkable array of exhibitions in our upcoming season reflects The Met’s unparalleled commitment to presenting art from across time and around the globe in compelling and innovative displays,” said Max Hollein, The Met’s Marina Kellen French Director and Chief Executive Officer. “We are excited to welcome audiences to these truly extraordinary shows and collection displays this spring.”
Highlights of the ambitious season include Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature (opening February 8), presented in honor of the 250th anniversary of Friedrich’s birth in 2024 and the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States dedicated to the artist, whose paintings ushered in a radical new understanding of the bond between nature and the inner self; and Sargent and Paris (opening April 27), an in-depth look at the artist’s early, decade-long practice in 19th-century France that culminated in the iconic Madame X, a beloved highlight of The Met collection. On May 10, the Museum will unveil the Costume Institute’s spring 2025 exhibition, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, a cultural and historical examination of the Black dandy from the 1700s to present day, and on May 19, it will open Lorna Simpson: Source Notes, the first exhibition to consider the entirety of the artist’s painting practice to date, highlighting how her work explores gender, race, identity, representation, and history.
On May 31, the Museum will officially reopen the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, after a complete reimagining of the 40,000-square-foot suite of galleries dedicated to the arts of Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania. These three major world traditions will stand as independent entities in a wing that is in dialogue with neighboring gallery spaces and will feature over 1,800 works spanning five continents and hundreds of cultures. The renovated wing’s many highlights include a new in-focus gallery that will debut with the presentation Iba N’Diaye: Between Latitude and Longitude, featuring work by the Senegalese Modernist in relation to the artist’s diverse source material from across The Met.
The Met’s upcoming exhibition program also includes Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900 (opening February 28), a comprehensive presentation of the important but often overlooked category of bronzes as an art form throughout China’s long history; Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie (opening March 24), a reimagining of the story of European porcelain through a feminist lens, exploring how this fragile material shaped both European women’s identities and racial and cultural stereotypes around Asian women; The New Art: American Photography, 1839–1910 (opening April 11), examining 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; and The Roof Garden Commission: Jennie C. Jones, Ensemble (opening April 15), a new work by the artist which interprets the strings of acoustic instruments as a proxy for art history. A list of upcoming exhibitions and installations can also be found on The Met’s website.
The Museum also announced a new season of scheduled festivals and programs, including the popular Lunar New Year Festival on January 25, celebrating the Year of the Snake, and the 11th edition of the annual Teens Take The Met! on May 16, 2025.
On view now at The Met, major exhibitions and special installations include the widely lauded Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 (through January 26, 2025), the first major exhibition in the United States focusing on early Sienese painting, examining a period of phenomenal artistic innovation and activity at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance; Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now (through February 17, 2025) an exhibition demonstrating the many ways in which Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt as a source of inspiration and identity; and The American Wing at 100 (ongoing), a reinstallation of the wing’s extensive collection of art and design on the occasion of its centennial.
The Met is currently celebrating the holiday season with beloved annual displays, performances, seasonal dining, and shopping opportunities at both The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters.
