Here’s what coming to The Met in 2023, including a major Van Gogh exhibit

For the first time in more than a century, two of Van Gogh’s most beloved paintings—”Wheat Field with Cypresses” and “The Starry Night”—will be on display together in a new exhibition at The Met in the summer of 2023. 

The show, titled “Van Gogh’s Cypresses,” will be the first to focus on the artist’s fascination with the flamelike trees. Officials from the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the new exhibit today, along with nine other exhibitions to look forward to in the year ahead. Here’s more about the show and what else is coming up:

“Van Gogh’s Cypresses”

May 22-August 27, 2023

Presented on the 170th anniversary of Van Gogh’s birth, this show will bring together 40 works by Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890). With a focus on the towering cypress trees featured in Van Gogh’s work, the exhibition will explore one of the most famous trees in art history. 

“It will offer an unprecedented look at some of the most iconic works of one the most seminal artists ever,” Met Director Max Hollein said. 

In addition to “Wheat Field with Cypresses” and “The Starry Night,” the show will also feature “Country Road in Provence by Night” as well as drawings, with a deep focus on how the artist represented cypresses. 

“Few motifs were to his mind more characteristic of Provence or exerted a greater hold on his imagination,” Susan Alyson Stein, Engelhard Curator of Nineteenth-Century European Painting at The Met, said.

“Richard Avedon: MURALS”

January 19-November 1, 2023

Rare life-size photomurals, including an image of Andy Warhol’s Factory, will kick off the 2023 season in mid-January. 

“Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art”

January 26-April 16, 2023

See 100 drawings, sketches and paintings from the Danish Golden Age, an era marked with tumult during which artists created outstanding works with romanticism, nature and light.

“Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929”

March 2-September 4, 2023

Photographer Berenice Abbott captured New York in small, black-and-white images, 266 of which will be showcased. The museum describes it as a “kind of photographic sketchbook.”

“It’s one of the unique treasures of the Met. It has never been fully exhibited, not been fully conserved, or published in its entirety—until now,” Hollein said.

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