Here are all the exhibits coming to the Metropolitan Museum of Art this spring 2025

This spring at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, explore European porcelain through a feminist lens, Americans' enduring love for photography, and a roof garden commission with an acoustic twist. Also don't miss the powerful show, "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" and the reopening of galleries related to art from Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania. 

"The remarkable array of exhibitions in our upcoming season reflects The Met’s unparalleled commitment to presenting art from across time and around the globe in compelling and innovative displays," the Met's Director Max Hollein said in a press release announcing the schedule of shows through May 2025. Here's what's coming to the Metropolitan Museum of Art this spring.

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The Met spring 2025 exhibition schedule 

Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature

Opening February 8

Presented in honor of the 250th anniversary of Caspar David Friedrich’s birth, this will be the first comprehensive exhibition in the U.S. dedicated to the German painter. His works are known for ushering in a radical new understanding of the bond between nature and the inner self.

Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900

Opening February 28

Recasting the Past presents the important but often overlooked category of bronzes as an art form throughout China's long history.

Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie

Opening March 24

Reimagine the story of European porcelain through a feminist lens, exploring how this fragile material shaped both European women's identities and racial and cultural stereotypes around Asian women. 

The New Art: American Photography, 1839–1910

Opening April 11

The New Art digs into the dramatic change in the nation's sense of itself that was driven by the immediate success of photography as a cultural, commercial, artistic, and psychological preoccupation.

The Roof Garden Commission: Jennie C. Jones, Ensemble

Opening April 15

Every spring, the Met mounts an ambitious exhibit on its rooftop. This year, it's a piece by Brooklyn-based artist Jennie C. Jones. The piece interprets the strings of acoustic instruments as a proxy for art history.  

Sargent and Paris

Opening April 27

This in-depth look at American painter John Singer Sargent focuses on his practice in 19th-century France that culminated in the iconic Madame X, a beloved highlight of The Met collection.

Superfine: Tailoring Black Style

Opening May 10 

The Met Costume Institute’s spring 2025 exhibition will unveil a cultural and historical examination of the Black dandy from the 1700s to present day. The exhibit, which features Black style in menswear throughout the decades, will kick off with the annual Met Gala. 

Lorna Simpson: Source Notes

Opening May 19

This will be the first exhibition to consider the entirety of the artist's painting practice to date, highlighting how her work explores gender, race, identity, representation, and history.

The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

Opening on May 31

Expect a complete reimagining of the 40,000-square-foot suite of galleries dedicated to art from Africa, the Ancient Americas, and Oceania. These three major world traditions will stand as independent entities in a wing that is in dialogue with neighboring gallery spaces and will feature over 1,800 works spanning five continents and hundreds of cultures, the Met’s leadership explained.

On view now

• Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350: The first major exhibition in the United States focusing on early Sienese painting, examining a period of phenomenal artistic innovation and activity at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance. See it through January 26.
• Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876: This exhibition demonstrates the many ways in which Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt as a source of inspiration and identity. It's on view through February 17.
• The American Wing at 100: a reinstallation of the wing’s extensive collection of art and design on the occasion of its centennial, is ongoing.