Making The Met | Met Exhibitions

As the centerpiece of The Met's 150th-anniversary celebrations, this major exhibition will lead visitors on an immersive, thought-provoking journey through the history of one of the world's preeminent cultural institutions. Making The Met, 1870–2020 will feature more than 250 superlative works of art of nearly every type, from visitor favorites to fragile treasures that can only be placed on view from time to time. Organized around transformational moments in the evolution of the Museum's collection, buildings, and ambitions, the exhibition will reveal the visionary figures and cultural forces that propelled The Met in new directions from its founding in 1870 to the present day. Rarely seen archival photographs, innovative digital features, and stories of both behind-the-scenes work and the Museum's community outreach will enhance this unique experience.

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The exhibition is made possible by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation.

Lead corporate sponsorship is provided by Bank of America.

Credits:
Managing Producer: Kate Farrell
Producer: Melissa Bell
Editor: Ivan Cordoba
Original music: Austin Fisher

Artwork:
© 2020 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
© 2020 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Courtesy El Anatsui and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Courtesy Alicja Kwade and 303 Gallery, New York
© Wangechi Mutu, courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels
© Robert Rauschenberg Foundation
Courtesy Kent Monkman
© Faith Ringgold

Photographs:
Photo by U.S. Signal Corps
Photo © James Klosty
Photo by Adelaide de Menil

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[shikhar]

It's not about the art but the history that it contains. The amount of stories each piece of art tells is something that values in millions.

[Glammazon]

I have just read an interesting story in which Theseus was a woman. This left me wondering why the Greek Heroes are all male when women can be Heroes too.

[surtr]

1:30 the most horrible thing ever painted