What's New
El Anatsui (Ghanaian, b.1944). Between Earth and Heaven, 2006. Aluminum, copper wire; 86 3/4 in. x 10 ft. 6 in. (220.3 x 320 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Fred M. and Rita Richman, Noah-Sadie K. Wachtel Foundation Inc., David and Holly Ross, Doreen and Gilbert Bassin Family Foundation and William B. Goldstein Gifts, 2007 (2007.96).
Sunday at the Met Programs
The Sunday at the Met series takes place in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium and offers lectures, films, panel discussions, literary presentations, and musical performances centered around a special exhibition or art historical theme. Sunday at the Met programs are free with Museum admission. The following three programs are scheduled for November. Search the calendar for all upcoming Sunday at the Met programs.
Sunday, November 9, 3:00 p.m.
The contemporary artist El Anatsui, whose work is featured in the special exhibition "The Essential Art of African Textiles: Design Without End," will discuss his artistic process with Alisa LaGamma, curator in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, and Chika Okeke-Agulu, Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Art at Princeton University.
Sunday, November 16, 2:00 p.m.
In conjunction with the special exhibition "Art and Love in Renaissance Italy," three lectures will explore the various exceptional objects created to celebrate love and marriage in the Italian Renaissance. Andrea Bayer, curator in the Metropolitan's Department of European Paintings, will introduce the event. See the calendar for more information, including a schedule of speakers.
Sunday, November 23, 1:30 p.m.
In celebration of the arrival of a twelfth-century Armenian Khatchkar (Stone Cross) as a long-term loan to the Museum, this program will include four brief lectures on Armenian history and art. Helen C. Evans, Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art at the Metropolitan Museum, will introduce the event. See the calendar for more information about this event, including a schedule of speakers. See the Press Room to learn more about the Khatchkar.
