Art in your inbox: February 2024

Fashion, Performance, and New Exhibitions in February [View in browser]( [The Met]( [Met News]( [Art in your inbox]( [Ann Lowe (ca. 1898–1981)]( [Ann Lowe (ca. 1898–1981)]( While Ann Lowe was underappreciated as an important American fashion designer during her lifetime, the fine quality of her work meant that her gowns have naturally found their way into museum collections. Her work is featured in [Women Dressing Women](, on view at The Met through March 10, 2024. [Read now →]( [Rhiannon Giddens: At the Purchaser's Option / Okpebholo: "oh freedom" from Songs in Flight]( [Rhiannon Giddens: At the Purchaser's Option / Okpebholo: "oh freedom" from Songs in Flight]( Enjoy a recording of Rhiannon Giddens's performance from the world premiere of Songs in Flight, which was January 12, 2023 in The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. [Watch now →]( [Who Were the Early Cycladic Figures?]( [Who Were the Early Cycladic Figures?]( Discover the fascinating history behind these enigmatic objects in the special installation [Cycladic Art](, on view now. [Read now →]( [Collioure in Color]( [Collioure in Color]( Learn how, over the course of a single summer, Henri Matisse and André Derain collaborated with Amélie Matisse to create new forms of sensory expression.[Explore now →]( [Wearing Coins in Late Antiquity]( [Wearing Coins in Late Antiquity]( Why were gold coins used as jewelry throughout the Byzantine Empire? Learn more about their many functions, and explore extraordinary works from the exhibition [Africa & Byzantium](, on view through March 3, 2024. [Read now →]( [Exhibitions]( [Celebrating the Year of the Dragon]( [Celebrating the Year of the Dragon]( JUST OPENED Through January 2025 The Met Fifth Avenue [Women Dressing Women]( [Women Dressing Women]( EXTENDED Through March 10, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting]( [Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting]( JUST OPENED Through June 9, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Cycladic Art]( [Cycladic Art]( JUST OPENED Ongoing The Met Fifth Avenue [Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt]( [Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt]( JUST OPENED Through January 25, 2026 The Met Fifth Avenue [Vision and Verse: The Poetry of Chinese Painting]( [Vision and Verse: The Poetry of Chinese Painting]( JUST OPENED Through June 16, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [A Magical Menagerie: Exploring Dragons, Griffins, Unicorns, and More at The Met Cloisters]( [A Magical Menagerie: Exploring Dragons, Griffins, Unicorns, and More at The Met Cloisters]( CLOSING SOON Through February 13, 2024 The Met Cloisters [The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism]( [The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism]( UPCOMING February 25–July 28, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art]( [Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art]( UPCOMING March 5–June 16, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [The Art of the Literary Poster: Works from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection]( [The Art of the Literary Poster: Works from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection]( UPCOMING March 7–June 11, 2024 The Met Fifth Avenue [The Met Store]( [Gifts from the Heart]( [Gifts from the Heart]( Unique jewelry designs to surprise and delight. [Shop now →]( [Plan Your Visit]( See the [Plan Your Visit page]( for more information about buying tickets in advance. Please note our [current opening days and hours for each location](. See our [visitor guidelines]( for the latest health and safety updates. [Buy your tickets now →]( [Become a Member →]( [The Met Fifth Avenue]( 1000 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10028 [The Met Cloisters]( 99 Margaret Corbin Drive Fort Tryon Park New York, NY 10040 [metmuseum.org]( [Explore]( [Membership]( [Donate]( [Shop]( [Manage Your Preferences]( | [Unsubscribe]( For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit [Women Dressing Women](, [Cycladic Art](, [Africa & Byzantium](, [Celebrating the Year of the Dragon](, [Indian Skies: The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting](, [Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt](, [Vision and Verse: The Poetry of Chinese Painting](, [A Magical Menagerie: Exploring Dragons, Griffins, Unicorns, and More at The Met Cloisters](, [The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism](, [Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art](, and [The Art of the Literary Poster: Works from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection](. “Songs in Flight” was made possible by the Frank & Lydia Bergen Foundation, the Adrienne Arsht Fund for Resilience through Art, Douglas Dockery Thomas, and an Anonymous Foundation. Your support allows the Museum to collect, conserve, and present 5,000 years of world art. [Donate now.]( Comments are welcome at [metmuseum_newsletter@metmuseum.org](mailto:MetMuseum_Newsletter@metmuseum.org). Images: [Marble female figure](, ca. 2500–2400/2300 BCE. Early Cycladic II. Marble, 5 3/8 × 21 1/8 in. (13.6 × 53.7 cm). Leonard N. Stern Collection, Loan from the Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Culture (L.2022.38.47) | André Derain (French, 1880–1954). [Fishing Boats, Collioure](, 1905. Oil on canvas, 32 × 39 in. (81 × 100 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Raymonde Paul, in memory of her brother, C. Michael Paul, and Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1982 (1982.179.29) | Claire McCardell wearing her “Future dress” (detail), 1945. Photo by Erwin Blumenfeld. © The Estate of Erwin Blumenfeld 2023 | An Elephant and Keeper, India, Mughal, ca. 1650-60. Opaque color and gold on paper. Howard Hodgkin Collection, Purchase, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions, Harris Brisbane Dick, and 2020 Benefit Funds; Howard S. and Nancy Marks, Lila Acheson Wallace, and Friends of Islamic Art Gifts; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and funds from various donors, 2022 (2022.187) | Hua Guan (active late 18th to early 19th century). Portrait of a gentleman gathering chrysanthemums (detail), Qing dynasty (1644–1911), dated 1790. Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper. Purchase, Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Bequest, 2023 (2023.299). | William H. Johnson (American, 1901–1970). Woman in Blue, c. 1943. Oil on burlap, 35 x 27 in. (88.9 x 68.6 cm). Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Permanent Loan from the National Collection of Fine Art, 1969.013 | Anni Albers. Pasture, 1958. Mercerized cotton. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1969 (69.135). © The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2023. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, photo by Peter Zeray. | Edward Penfield (American, 1866–1925). Harper’s: February, 1897. Lithograph. 19 × 14 in. (48.3 × 35.5 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Leonard A. Lauder Collection of American Posters, Gift of Leonard A. Lauder, 1984 (1984.1202.96).