Starting tomorrow, March 13, the museum’s three locations will shutter.
Met Breuer
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Decolonizing Western Narratives of Modern Art
The Met Breuer mounts recent acquisitions from Latin America, South and Southeast Asia, West Asia, and North Africa alongside mainstays of postwar American art, sketching a potential reorientation of art history.
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The Politics Behind the Massacred Canvases of Lucio Fontana
Will audiences ignore the Argentine-Italian’s fascist past to celebrate his first US museum survey in more than 40 years?
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Julio Le Parc’s Brilliant Op Art Beginnings
The Argentinian modernist tried obsessively to bring order to chaos, even in the midst of unrelenting flux.
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Videos that Question the Politics of Different Bodies
At the Met Breuer, four works by David Hammons, Arthur Jafa, Steve McQueen, and Mika Rottenberg overlap with and inform one another.
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Ettore Sottsass’s Candy-Colored Utopian Design
The Met Breuer’s exhibition makes the case that it wasn’t just an aesthetic Sottsass unleashed on the world, but a particular way of interpreting the past and imagining the future.
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Channeling Lygia Pape’s Radical Relationship to Space
To accompany its retrospective on Lygia Pape, the Met Breuer organized a reenactment of the artist’s performance “Divisor,” where up to 225 people parade the streets under a giant sheet.