For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit Musical Bodies, Costume Art, Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur, Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy, Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas, City of Memory: Nanjing in the Seventeenth Century, Revolution!, Household Gods: Hindu Devotional Prints, 1860–1930, Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship, Lillian Bassman: Bazaar and Beyond, Decorative Arts in China, 1000 to the Present, and A Lasting Legacy: Chinese Jades from New York Collections.
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Images: Thomas Zach, Violino Harpa Forma Maxima, 1874. Wood (spruce, maple, ebony), metal strings. Collections Musée de la musique / Cliché Claude Germain, 2020. Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris | Assemblage: Ensemble, John Galliano for Maison Margiela, autumn/winter 2020–21 haute couture. Courtesy of Maison Margiela; The Veiled Woman, Rafaelle Monti, 1854. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Annie Brinkmann, 1887 (87.7) Artwork by Julie Wolfe. | Alberto Giacometti, Woman of Venice II, 1956. Painted bronze. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998 © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York | Jean-Léon Gérôme, Bashi-Bazouk (detail), 1868–69. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2008 | Tairona artist(s), Figure Pendant, Colombia, 900–1600 CE. Gold. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jan Mitchell and Sons Collection, Gift of Jan Mitchell, 1991 (1991.419.31) | Tao Hong (Chinese, active ca. 1610–1640s), Riverside village, 1638. One leaf from an album of seven leaves. Image: 9 3/4 × 10 1/2 in. Promised gift of Julia and John Curtis. | Paul Revere Jr. (American, 1734–1818), after Henry Pelham (American, 1749–1806). The Boston Massacre, or, The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston on March 5, 1770 by a party of the 29th Regiment (detail), 1770. Hand-colored engraving and etching; second state. Sheet: 11 in. × 9 9/16 in. (27.9 × 24.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910 (10.125.103) | Subramaniyan with his consorts Valli and Devasena (detail), Ravi Varma Press, c. 1900–1915, Color lithograph, varnish. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Friends of Asian Art, 2021 | Possibly by Wenzel Roriczer (German, born Bohemia, died 1419). Design for the Entrance Portal of Regensburg Cathedral (detail), ca. 1390–1410. Pen and black ink, over blind ruling with stylus, guided by compass and straightedge, on parchment, Sheet: 53 3/16 × 22 3/8 in. (135.1 × 56.9 cm). Kupferstichkabinett, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien (HZ-16871r) | Lillian Bassman (American, 1917–2012). Solarized Fashion Study (detail), ca. 1960. Gelatin silver print. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Lizzie and Eric Himmel © Estate of Lillian Bassman | Water dropper in the shape of a rhinoceros (detail), Ming dynasty (1368–1644), 15th century. Copper alloy. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2015 (2015.294) | Knotted dragon ring (detail), Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 BCE), 3rd century BCE. Jade (nephrite). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Ernest Erickson Foundation, 1985 (1985.214.99) |
