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Highlights from the Modern Design Collection: 1900 to the Present

ManhattanTues, June 23, 2009 – Thurs, June 23, 2011

Forty-six objects—including furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass, jewelry, drawings and posters—show the versatility of the museum's modern and contemporary design collection.

• Highlights from the Modern Design Collection: 1900 to the Present

  Metropolitan Museum of Art

  ManhattanTues, June 23, 2009 – Thurs, June 23, 2011

  Forty-six objects—including furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass, jewelry, drawings and posters—show the versatility of the museum's modern and contemporary design collection.

• Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana

  Metropolitan Museum of Art

  ManhattanWed, March 31, 2010 – Sun, Sept 26, 2010

  The story of Rama—the Ramayana—one of the great epics of South Asia literature, has captured the imagination of Indian artists for centuries. It found its fullest expression in the lavishly illustrated manuscripts of the 17th and 18th centuries, some of which are on display in this exhibit.

• Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered

  Metropolitan Museum of Art

  ManhattanTues, April 13, 2010 – Sun, Nov 7, 2010

  Integral to one's social standing in decadent, 18th-century European court society were extravagant dining services of silver and gold, many of which subsequently were melted down to finance the frequent wars of the period. This exhibition presents a rare surviving Imperial silver service, made about 1779-1782.

• Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambu

  Metropolitan Museum of Art

  ManhattanTues, April 27, 2010 – Sun, Oct 31, 2010

  The artists and a team of rock climbers construct a monumental bamboo structure in the form of a cresting wave, bridging realms of sculpture, architecture and performance.

• Every Day at the Met

  Metropolitan Museum of Art

  ManhattanOngoing

  The Met has 19 curatorial collections on view every day. Choose a part of the globe, medium or time period in the past five millenia and you're likely to find representative art works from it. Gallery tours take place daily and special exhibitions are always on view.