 |  | | | MetLiveArts brings The Met collection to life through bold, boundary-pushing performances that forge unexpected connections across genres and mediums. This spring, hear musical instruments from The Met collection; celebrate the newly reimagined Africa and Oceania galleries with music, dance, and storytelling; experience performance in dialogue with newly reinstalled European paintings and favorite works from the American Wing; and much more.
Explore the full season → |  | | | | Julian Lage | Saturday, March 21, 7 pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Hear the acclaimed guitarist in a solo performance featuring jazz standards and original compositions.
Tickets start at $35
Buy tickets → | |  |  | | Julia Kent | Friday, April 10, 5:30 pm & 7 pm
Gallery 628, European Paintings
Free with Museum admission
Learn more → | | | | | VOU Fiji | Friday, April 24 & Saturday, April 25, 6 pm & 7:30 pm
Arts of Oceania, The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
Free with Museum admission
Learn more → | | | | | All prices include fees.
For more information about the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, see Arts of Africa, Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, Raphael: Sublime Poetry, and Arts of Oceania.
Met Collection Pianos in Concert and Julian Lage are made possible by David Katz and the Abraham J. and Phyllis Katz Foundation.
Events and programming related to the reopening of The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing are made possible by the Breyer Family Foundation, the Ford Foundation, Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Thompson Family Foundation. Additional support is provided by Stephen M. Cutler and Wendy N. Zimmermann, Kyveli and George Economou, Ed and Dale Mathias, the Mex-Am Cultural Foundation Inc., and two anonymous donors.
For MetLiveArts program funders, visit metmuseum.org/metliveartssupport.
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Image: VOU Fiji, photo by Kama Catch Me Photography | Louis Majorelle (French, Toul 1859–1926 Nancy); Manufacturer: Érard (French, ca. 1780–1959); Victor Emile Prouvé (French, Nancy 1858–1943 Sétif, Algeria). La Mort du Cygne Grand Piano. Mahogany, carved and inlaid with fruitwood veneers; ivorine; gilt bronze. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of Yvette and Allen Michaan, 2022 | Julian Lage, photo by Alysse Gafkjen | Baaba Maal, photo courtesy of the artist | Helene Schjerfbeck (Finnish, 1862‒1946). Self-Portrait (detail), 1912. Oil on canvas, 17 1/8 × 16 1/2 in. (43.5 × 42 cm). Finnish National Gallery Collection, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki (A-2016-51). Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Yehia Eweis | Gerard & Kelly, photo by Aude Carleton | Raphael (Raffaello di Giovanni Santi), The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna) (detail), ca. 1509–11. Oil on canvas (transferred from wood). National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.24 | Julia Kent, photo by Mikiodo | The Clarion Choir, photo by Stephanie Berger | | | |
