 |  | | Alex Da Corte & Emily Wells: The Glass Age | Thursday, January 15, 2026, 7 pm
Charles Engelhard Court, The Met Fifth Avenue
Dada forefather Marcel Duchamp comes to life in a special performance.
In The Glass Age, conceptual artist Alex Da Corte—renowned for works that shatter boundaries between media—transforms himself into the Dada pioneer. As Duchamp, Da Corte will deliver a lecture as a poem to hundreds of pictures in choreographed musical dialogue with composer Emily Wells. For this performance, presented in collaboration with The Met's Bluff Collaborative for Research on Dada and Surrealism and the exhibition Man Ray: When Objects Dream, Duchamp finds himself inside the prism world of copies, duplicates, replicas, proxies, memes—the places where, like in the visionary artist Man Ray’s rayographs, image, object, and time coalesce.
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For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit Man Ray: When Objects Dream and Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck.
Alex Da Corte & Emily Wells: The Glass Age is presented in conjunction with the Bluff Collaborative for Research on Dada and Surrealism and the exhibition Man Ray: When Objects Dream.
Kahil El'Zabar and Ethnic Heritage Ensemble is presented as part of The Met's celebration of Black History Month.
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Image: Alex Da Corte, ROY G BIV, 2022 (Video, color, sound; 60 min., wood box with back-projected screen, paint, performance, and powder-coated chairs). Courtesy Alex Da Corte | Kahil El'Zabar performs with Ethnic Heritage Ensemble at The Met, photo by Stephanie Berger | 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. | | | |
