The Met celebrates its 150 Anniversary
New York City’s most famous art museum is celebrating its 150th Anniversary
The famous Metropolitan Museum of Art [known as The Met] in New York City, is celebrating their 150th Anniversary with world-class exhibitions from around the globe including Arte del Mar: Exchange in the Caribbean which runs through January 21, 2021 and In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreirer Collection which runs through September 7.
The fashion exhibit displays the collection of Sandy Schreirer, a pioneering collector who assembled one of the most exquisite twentieth-century French and American couture and ready-to-wear wardrobe as a form of creative expression. The gift is part of The Met’s 2020 Collection’s Initiative in honor of the museum’s 150th anniversary. It features 80 of the 165 promised gifts; including womenswear, accessories and fashion illustrations dating back to 1908 pochoir album, Les Robes de Paul Poiret, developed in collaboration with Paul Iribe to a 2004 Phillip Treacy butterfly hat.
The Arte del Mar: [Art From The Sea] Exchange in the Caribbean features many works of art from the Caribbean, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica and Honduras. It celebrates the region’s ancestral traditions; featuring a twentieth-century painting by an Afro-Caribbean artist and it explores their enduring legacy.
There’s also two photography exhibits. One of them is the 2020 Vision Photographs 1840s-1860s and the other is Photography’s Last Century The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection. The closing dates of these two exhibits have yet to be announced.