The Metropolitan Museum of Art is not only one of the finest repositories of ancient art and Old Masters in the world, it also plays a vital role in contemporary art, presenting retrospectives of major figures—effectively announcing their entry into the cannon—and surveys that place recent work in an art-historical context.
On Artspace, we are proud to have work by many of these new masters who have shown at the Met, including Richard Avedon (whose portraits were the subject of a sweeping 2002 retrospective), Robert Rauschenberg (whose combines were surveyed in a landmark 2005-6 show curated by Paul Schimmel), and Betty Woodman (who in 2002 became the first living pottery artist to be given a solo retrospective at the museum).
Then, too, there are rising stars like Matthew Jensen, whose photo series The 49 States—a portrait of the American landscape as captured on Google Street View—was acquired by the Met in 2010. Browse this collection to learn more about the Artspace artists who have been embraced by America's foremost encyclopedic museum—which we are proud to count as an institutional partner—and look forward to even more cutting-edge programming at the museum now that Tate Modern veteran Sheena Wagstaff has taken over its contemporary art department.
