| | | Spring is just around the corner! Join painter Cy Gavin and designer, author, and podcast host Debbie Millman for a conversation exploring art and nature, celebrate Women's History Month with workshops and events, see a performance featuring a guitar from The Met collection, and more. |  | | | | Debbie Millman and Cy Gavin—Ecologies of Painting | Sunday, March 22, 2–3 pm
Join painter Cy Gavin and designer, author, and podcast host Debbie Millman for a conversation exploring art and nature. Highlighting a new rotation in the European Paintings galleries "Ecologies of Painting," which explores how human and nonhuman histories are intertwined, Gavin and Millman will reflect on the role aesthetics play in defining our understanding of the natural and built environments. Learn more about Gavin's practice and how he creates interpretations of sites that have been shaped over time by human intervention and geological or cosmic phenomena.
Free with Museum admission, though advance registration is required. Note: Space is limited; first come, first served.
Register now → |  | | | | Art History Study Group—Medieval Iran and Central Asia | Wednesday, March 11, 3–4:30 pm
Access the expertise of The Met from anywhere and expand your knowledge of art history. Together with curator Martina Rugiadi, discover the Islamic art of Medieval Iran and Central Asia. Look closely at objects in The Met collection from the 10th to 13th centuries, including manuscripts, ceramics, and metalwork, and learn more about the lasting impact of late 19th to early 20th-century collecting practices.
Fee: $40. Note: This live event takes place on Zoom. Space is limited; advance registration is required. Registration closes Tuesday, March 10, 2026 or when registration is full.
Register now → |  | | | | Celebrating George Morrison | Friday, March 27, 6–7 pm
Join us for an engaging conversation investigating George Morrison's artistic practice and how he connected his creativity with activism. Discover how Morrison's love of New York City and jazz music, as well as his artistic networks and Ojibwe identity, shaped his aesthetic. Hear from those who knew him, and learn about Morrison's cultural influence and impact as an Abstract Expressionist painter in the art world of mid-twentieth-century New York and beyond.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Magical City: George Morrison's New York.
Free with Museum admission, though advance registration is required. Note: Space is limited; first come, first served.
Register now → |  | | | | Annual Distinguished Lecture on the Arts of South and Southeast Asia | Friday, March 20, 6–7 pm
In Calcutta, the cosmopolitan colonial capital of 19th-century India, artists and artisans adapted new technologies of mechanical reproduction to render the Hindu gods more accessible and affordable. During this time, they pioneered the chromolithographic religious print, a form of popular devotional imagery that became ubiquitous in 20th-century India. This lecture explores how this new genre emerged and proliferated into the pervasive visual language of modern India.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Household Gods: Hindu Devotional Prints, 1860–1930.
Free with Museum admission, though advance registration is required. Note: Space is limited; first come, first served.
Register now → |  | | | | Instrumental Women | Discover the incredible contributions of women to musical instrument collecting and making with panels, demonstrations, art making, and musical performances in celebration of Women's History Month.
Free with Museum admission; admission is pay what you wish for New York state residents, and free for children 12 and under with an adult, and a care partner accompanying a visitor with a disability. Note: Space is limited; first come, first served. | | Presentation and Conversation with Gabriela Guadalajara and Jeemin Kim | Saturday, March 14, 11 am–12 pm
Explore the craft, care, and concerns of instrument building with luthiers Gabriela Guadalajara and Jeemin Kim. Learn more about materials and measurements and enjoy live musical moments.
Learn more → | | A Celebration of Lutherie | Saturday, March 14, 1–4 pm
Join famed guitar makers Linda Manzer, Rachel Rosenkrantz, and other emerging stars such as Gabriela Guadalajara, Jeemin Kim, Jayme Kurland, and Mamie Minch for panels, demonstrations, and musical performances.
Register now → | | Open Studio—2D Instrument Design | Saturday, March 14, 1–4 pm
Discover the impact of women makers to the creation of guitars, violins, and other stringed instruments. Explore the materials used in lutherie at a touch table and design your own stringed instrument using collage materials inspired by artwork in The Met collection.
Learn more → |  | | | | Summer Internships for High School Students | Calling all teens! Ready to explore new interests, build real-world skills, and get paid while doing it? The Met's High School Internship Program connects 10–11 graders with museum professionals in fields like social media, design, education, curatorial work, and more. No art background required—just curiosity and motivation.
Application Deadline: Friday, March 13, 2026, 5 pm ET
Learn more →
|  | | | | Art Trek—Celebrating Women Artists | Saturday, March 7 and 21, 2–3 pm
Travel through time and around the world and discover favorite works of art as you look and learn together. This month, explore art by women in The Met collection. Recommended for children ages 7–11 and their families.
Presented in celebration of Women's History Month.
Free with Museum admission; admission is free for children 12 and under with an adult, and a care partner accompanying a visitor with a disability. Note: Space is limited; first come, first served.
Learn more → |  | | | | Discoveries (Ages 5–13)—Arts of Africa | Sunday, March 22, 11 am–12:30 pm
For kids with intellectual and developmental disabilities and autism. Join us for a tour and workshop experience and create community through art making inspired by The Met collection.
Free, though advance registration is required. Space is limited.
Presented in celebration of the reopening of The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, featuring the Museum's collections of the arts of Africa, the ancient Americas, and Oceania.
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For more information about the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, see Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, The Magical City: George Morrison's New York, Household Gods: Hindu Devotional Prints, 1860–1930, Arts of Africa, Arts of the Ancient Americas, Arts of Oceania, and Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages.
Debbie Millman and Cy Gavin—Ecologies of Painting is made possible by the Pearl Ehrlich Fund.
Julian Lage is made possible by David Katz and the Abraham J. and Phyllis Katz Foundation.
Annual Distinguished Lecture on the Arts of South and Southeast Asia: Gods at the Gate of Modernity—Religious Arts in Colonial Calcutta is made possible by the generous support of Jeff Soref and Paul Lombardi.
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 Education program funders, visit metmuseum.org/educationfundingsupport.
For MetLiveArts program funders visit metmuseum.org/metliveartssupport.
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Images: 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 | Cy Gavin (American, born Pittsburgh 1985). Untitled (Paths, crossing—blue) (detail), 2022. Acrylic and vinyl paints on canvas, 86 in. × 11 ft. 4 1/16 in. (218.4 × 345.6 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Alf and Clara Naman and Lila Acheson Wallace Gifts, 2023 (2023.349) © Cy Gavin. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian. Photo: Rob McKeever | Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience. Attributed to Iran, late 12th–early 13th century. Stonepaste; glazed (opaque monochrome), in-glaze- and overglaze-painted, gilded, H. 3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm), Diam. 7 3/4 in. (19.7 cm), Wt. 12.3 oz. (348.7 g). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Henry G. Leberthon Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. A. Wallace Chauncey, 1957 (57.61.16) | Installation view of the exhibition The Magical City: George Morrison's New York © The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Subramanya and his consorts Mahavalli and Devasena (Shri Shanmukha Subramania Swami). Ravi Varma Press, Karla-Lonavala, Maharashtra, ca.1900–1915. Chromolithograph on paper, 19 7/8 × 13 7/8 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Friends of Asian Art, 2021 (2021.222) | Instrumental Women photo courtesy of Linda Manzer | Summer internships photo by Christine Butler | Gerard & Kelly, photo by Aude Carleton | All other images by Filip Wolak | | | |
