Met Museum Opens 'Spies in the House of Art' 2/7

Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video--on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from February 7 through August 26, 2012--features contemporary artists who have taken as their subject the art museum and how they view specific works from the canon of art history. The installation includes 17 works, most of which have never before been shown at the Metropolitan.

Among the highlights are Francesca Woodman’s Blueprint for a Temple and Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer’s Flash in the Metropolitan, a 16mm film shot after-hours in the Museum’s galleries, as well as are photographs and videos by Lutz Bacher, Lothar Baumgarten, Sophie Calle, Tim Davis, Candida Höfer, Louise Lawler, John Pilson, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, and Thomas Struth. In an unprecedented commingling of old and new works, Andrea Fraser’s humorous 30-minute video Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk will be exhibited alongside paintings in the adjacent Galleries of Nineteenth Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art.

WHERE
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography

EXHIBITION DATES
February 7 – August 26, 2012