Women Artists, Black Figures, and Modern Art Enter the Met’s European Painting Galleries in a Bold New Hang
about 5 months ago (11/20/2023)
Black Figures, Modern Art Enter the Met’s European Painting Galleries – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Alex Greenberger Plus Icon Alex Greenberger Senior Editor, ARTnews View All November 20, 2023 10:31am Pablo Picasso joins El Greco in the Met's new European paintings presentation, which expands the purview to include modern art. Courtesy the Met The Metropolitan Museum of Art is doing so many interesting things right now—a “Manet/Degas” doubleheader, a sprawling Jacolby Satterwhite commission, and a show about Africa and the Byzantine Empire, to name just three—that it is easy to forget the most exciting one of them all: a sweeping rehang of its European paintings galleries. In 2018, these galleries started to shutter as the Met revised their skylights.