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Manet/Degas Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, The Roof Garden Commission:

Through January 7, 2024 and the Origins of Fauvism Lauren Halsey
The Met Fifth Avenue Through January 21, 2024 Through October 22
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Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Cecily Brown: Death and the Art for the Millions: American
Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE Maid Culture and Politics in the 1930s
Through November 23 Through December 3 Through December 3
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Visitors not eligible for suggested admission may purchase tickets online.

Adults $30

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Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics

in the 1930s Overview Exhibition Objects

The 1930s was a decade of political and social upheaval in the United States, and the art and visual
culture of the time reflected the unsettled environment. Americans searched for their cultural identity
during the Great Depression, a period marked by divisive politics, threats to democracy, and intensi-
fied social activism, including a powerful labor movement. Featuring more than 100 works from The
Met collection and several lenders, this exhibition explores how artists expressed political messages
and ideologies through a range of media, from paintings, sculptures, prints, and photographs to film,
dance, decorative arts, fashion, and ephemera.

Highlights include paintings by Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler, and Stuart Davis; prints by Eliza-
beth Olds, Dox Thrash, and Riva Helfond; photographs by Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange; foota-
ge of Martha Graham’s dance Frontier; and more, providing an unprecedented overview of the era’s
sociopolitical landscape.The exhibition is made possible by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and
The Schiff Foundation.
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Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics

in the 1930s Overview Exhibition Objects

Grand Canyon Natio- Yellowstone National Lassen Volcanic Na- Fort Marion National
nal Park, A Free Go- Park, Ranger Natura- tional Park, Ranger Monument, St. Au-
vernment Service list Service Naturalist Service gustine, Florida
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Manet/Degas
Overview Visiting Guide Exhibition Objects

i Entering the Exhibition

You must join the virtual exhibition queue via QR code once inside the Museum. No advance
or timed tickets required. Access is first come, first served and subject to capacity limita-
tions. The virtual queue closes daily when capacity is reached.

The 1930s was a decade of political and social upheaval in the United States, and the art and visual
culture of the time reflected the unsettled environment. Americans searched for their cultural identity
during the Great Depression, a period marked by divisive politics, threats to democracy, and intensi-
fied social activism, including a powerful labor movement. Featuring more than 100 works from The
Met collection and several lenders, this exhibition explores how artists expressed political messages .
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Manet/Degas
Overview Visiting Guide Exhibition Objects

Introduction
Friends, rivals, and, at times, antagonists, Édouard Manet (1832–1883) and Edgar Degas (1834–1917)
forged one of the most significant dialogues in nineteenth-century art. Their groundbreaking bodies
of work would have been vastly different, if not unthinkable, without the creative exchanges that
punctuated their careers from the time of their meeting in the early 1860s.

Edouard Edgar
Selected Artworks Manet Degas
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Manet/Degas
Overview Visiting Guide Exhibition Objects

Head of a Young Wo- Édouard Manet, Sea- Édouard Manet, Sea- Édouard Manet,
man ted, Holding His Hat ted, Turned to the Left Bust-Length Portrait
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Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid

Overview

For more than twenty-five years, Cecily Brown (b. 1969) has transfixed viewers with sumptuous color,
bravura brushwork, and complex narratives that relate to some of Western art history’s grandest and
oldest themes. After moving to New York from London in the 1990s, she revived painting for a new
generation alongside a handful of other artists—many of them also women—at the very moment cri-
tics were questioning its import and relevance. The first full-fledged museum survey of Brown’s work
in New York since she made the city her home, Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid assembles a select
group of some fifty paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, and monotypes from across her career to ex-
plore the intertwined themes of still life, memento mori, mirroring, and vanitas—symbolic depictions
of human vanity or life’s brevity—that have propelled her dynamic and impactful practice for decades.

The exhibition is made possible by The Modern Circle and Agnes Gund.

Additional support is provided by Neuberger Berman Private Wealth, the Jeffrey and Leslie Fischer
Family Foundation, and Barbara and John Vogelstein.
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Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins

of Fauvism Overview Visiting Guide Exhibition Objects

With this new direction in painting, Matisse and Derain manipulated color in radical ways—nature
took on hues responding to the artists’ sensations rather than reality. At the Salon d’Automne in 1905,
when Matisse and Derain unveiled their controversial canvases, a prominent French journalist labe-
led them “les Fauves,” or wild beasts.

Accompanied by a catalogue.

The exhibition is made possible by The Florence Gould Foundation.

Additional support is provided by an Anonymous Foundation.

The exhibition is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Hous-
ton.
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Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins

of Fauvism Overview Visiting Guide Exhibition Objects

Watercolors
Matisse shifted freely from one medium to another that summer in 1905, working in oil, watercolor, or
pen and ink. He admittedly resisted embarking on ambitious canvases, preferring instead to gather
source material for his Paris studio practice. Matisse painted as many as forty watercolors in Colliou-
re, several of which are exhibited here.
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Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins

of Fauvism Overview Visiting Guide Exhibition Objects

Study for “Luxe, calme et vo- The Port of Collioure (Le port Fishing Boats, Collioure (Ba-
lupté” (Etude pour “Luxe, cal- de Collioure) teaux, pêcheurs, Collioure)
me et volup)
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The Roof Garden Commission: Lauren Halsey

Overview

American artist Lauren Halsey (b. 1987, Los Angeles) has been commissioned to create a site-spe-
cific installation for The Met’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Halsey will create a full-scale
architectural structure imbued with the collective energy and imagination of the South Central Los
Angeles Community where she was born and continues to work. Titled the eastside of south central
los angeles hieroglyph prototype architecture (I), the installation is designed to be inhabited by The
Met’s visitors, who will be able to explore its connections to sources as varied as ancient Egyptian
symbolism, 1960s utopian architecture, and contemporary visual expressions like tagging that reflect
the ways in which people aspire to make public places their own.

Additional support is provided by The Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky Foundation, the Barrie A. and
Deedee Wigmore Foundation, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky, and Vivian and Jim Zelter.

The catalogue is made possible by the Mary and Louis S. Myers Foundation Endowment Fund.
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Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200

BCE–400 CE Overview

This is the story of the origins of Buddhist art. The religious landscape of ancient India was transfor-
med by the teachings of the Buddha, which in turn inspired art devoted to expressing his message.
Sublime imagery adorned the most ancient monumental religious structures in ancient India, known
as stupas. The stupa not only housed the relics of the Buddha but also honored him through symbolic
representations and visual storytelling. Original relics and reliquaries are at the heart of this exhibi-
tion, which culminates with the Buddha image itself.

i Entering the Exhibition

You must join the virtual exhibition queue via QR code once inside the Museum. No advance
or timed tickets required. Access is first come, first served and subject to capacity limita-
tions. The virtual queue closes daily when capacity is reached.