The Face of Life: Modern Portraits at The Met

This exhibition examines the language of portraiture from about 1900 to the 1960s through nearly 80 works from The Met collection by artists including Leonora Carrington, Elizabeth Catlett, Marsden Hartley, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, René Magritte, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso, Florine Stettheimer, and others. As the Museum prepares for the opening in 2030 of the new Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing for Modern and Contemporary Art, this installation of modern paintings, sculpture, and design objects offers a chance to revisit highlights and discover recent acquisitions by Wifredo Lam, Francis Picabia, and Laura Wheeler Waring that connect across history and the larger Met collection.