Permanent display
Cycladic Art
from 25 Jan 2024 at The Met Fifth Avenue
· New York
Cycladic Art brings together works from one of the ancient world's most distinctive civilizations, flourishing in the Aegean islands during the Early Bronze Age (c. 3200–2000 BC).
The exhibition showcases the elegant, abstract marble figurines, pottery, and everyday objects that define Cycladic culture — forms so strikingly modern in appearance that they influenced 20th-century artists from Picasso to Brancusi.
Visitors are invited to explore the craftsmanship, symbolism, and enduring mystery of a society that left no written records, speaking to us entirely through its extraordinary objects.
The exhibition showcases the elegant, abstract marble figurines, pottery, and everyday objects that define Cycladic culture — forms so strikingly modern in appearance that they influenced 20th-century artists from Picasso to Brancusi.
Visitors are invited to explore the craftsmanship, symbolism, and enduring mystery of a society that left no written records, speaking to us entirely through its extraordinary objects.
About the venue
The Met Fifth Avenue
· New York
The Met Fifth Avenue is the primary museum building for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The building is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park in Manhattan's Upper East Side.
