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Tue May
22

11 a.m. till 5 p.m.

Kehinde Wiley/The World Stage: Israel

Presented by Jewish Museum, The

The exhibition features 14 large-scale paintings from the contemporary American painter Kehinde Wiley's newest series, 'The World Stage: Israel.' The vibrant portraits of Israeli youths from diverse ethnic and religious affiliations are each embedded in a unique background influenced by Jewish ceremonial art. Also included are 11 works - papercuts and large textiles - chosen by the artist from The Jewish Museum's collection. All of the 14 paintings on view are being displayed in New York for the first time
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Tue May
22

9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.

Antonio Ratti Textile Center

Presented by Metropolitan Museum of Art

See tapestries, velvets, carpets, embroideries, laces, samplers, quilts and woven and printed fabrics from all periods and civilizations, dating back to 3000 B.C.E.
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Tue May
22

9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.

Asian Art

Presented by Metropolitan Museum of Art

This exhibit features paintings, calligraphy, prints, sculpture, ceramics, bronzes, jades, lacquer, textiles and screens from ancient to modern China, Japan, Korea, and South and Southeast Asia
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Tue May
22

9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.

The Costume Institute

Presented by Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Costume Institute houses a collection of more than thirty-five thousand costumes and accessories spanning five continents and as many centuries. In January 2009, the Brooklyn Museum transferred its renowned costume collection, amassed over more than a century, to The Costume Institute, where it is known as the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Costume Institute's 5,000-square-feet galleries, which were last refurbished in 1992, are presently being renovated, as is the department's Irene Lewisohn Costume Reference Library, one of the world's foremost fashion libraries. Please note that the permanent collection of The Costume Institute is not on public view. See the Museum's online calendar for a schedule of upcoming special exhibitions and tours.
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Tue May
22

9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Presented by Metropolitan Museum of Art

The collection features sculpture, furniture, ceramics and glass, metalwork, scientific instruments, textiles and period rooms of the major Western European countries from the Renaissance through the early 20th century. The collection is housed in a variety of different galleries throughout the museum.
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Tue May
22

9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.

Gallery for the Art of Native North America

Presented by Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum's renovated gallery devoted to Native North American art displays approximately 90 works made by numerous American peoples. Ranging from the beautifully shaped stone tools known as bannerstones of several millennia B.C. to a mid-1970s tobacco bag, the objects illustrate a wide variety of cultural background, artistic style and functional purpose, all qualities inherent in the art of the peoples of the large North American continent. Works include wood sculpture from the Northwest Coast of North America, ivory carvings from the Arctic, wearing blankets from the Southwest and objects of hide from the Great Plains. Anchored by the Metropolitan's American Indian holdings drawn from the Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, the installation is augmented by loans from the well-known private collections of Ralph T. Coe of Santa Fe and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Diker of New York.
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Tue May
22

9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.

Medieval Art

Presented by Metropolitan Museum of Art

This exhibit features early European, Byzantine, Carolingian, Romanesque and Gothic works from the 4th to 16th century, including sculpture, tapestries, reliquaries, liturgical vessels and more.
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Tue May
22

9:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m.

Buried Finds: Textile Collectors in Egypt

Presented by Metropolitan Museum of Art

This is an exhibition of textile fragments from the late Roman, Byzantine, and early Islamic periods, excavated mainly from burials in the cemeteries of the Egyptian cities of Panopolis (Akhmim) and Antinoë (Sheikh Ibada) and of the Fayum.
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Tue May
22

10 a.m. till 5:45 p.m.

Hall of South African Peoples

Presented by American Museum of Natural History

This hall explores the pre-Columbian cultures of South America as well as the traditional cultures living in the region today, encompassing the ancient Inka, Moche, Chavin and Chancay cultures as well as the many peoples of modern Amazonia. Especially evident in this hall is the exceeding importance of textile art among the ancient Andeans; this artistic tradition, which conveyed status and identity, harks back at least 5,000 years. Andean achievements in metallurgy were also remarkable. Throughout the hall, works of exquisite craftsmanship abound, as in the Royal Llama of the Inka from Bolivia. The figure, approximately 500 years old, is made of silver and its blanket is cinnabar trimmed with gold. Also on view are examples of spectacular Amazonian featherwork, including a headdress made from toucan and macaw feathers that once adorned a young man from the Rikbaktsa tribe. This object and others like it demonstrate the importance of ornamentation among the indigenous cultures of the Amazonian rain forest.
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Tue May
22

10 a.m. till 5:45 p.m.

Spider Silk Textile

Presented by American Museum of Natural History

A spectacular and extremely rare textile, woven from golden-colored silk thread produced by more than one million spiders in Madagascar, is on display in the Museum's Grand Gallery. This magnificent contemporary textile, measuring 11 feet by 4 feet, took four years to make using a painstaking technique developed more than 100 years ago. Producing the spider silk--the only example of its kind displayed anywhere in the world--involved the efforts of 70 people who collected spiders daily from webs on telephone wires, using long poles. These spiders were all collected during the rainy season (the only time when they produce silk) from Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, and the surrounding countryside. These giant spider webs are a well-known feature of the capital, and frequently surprise international visitors. A dozen more people were needed to draw the silk from the spiders with hand-powered machines, with each spider producing about 80 feet of silk filament. This intricately-patterned spider silk features stylized birds and flowers and is based on a weaving tradition known as lamba Akotifahana from the highlands of Madagascar. In this unique lamba cloth, the individual threads used for weaving are made by twisting 96 to 960 individual spider silk filaments together.
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