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"Classic/Fantastic: Selections from the Modern Design Collection" Exhibition

Showing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in the The Upper East Side area.
Permanent event
Media: Drawing, Furniture, Ceramics

poster for "Classic/Fantastic: Selections from the Modern Design Collection" Exhibition

Order and disorder, reason and emotion, restraint and excess—opposing impulses such as these have influenced design since the beginning of civilization. The exhibition juxtaposes these divergent approaches, presenting an Apollonian/Dionysian dichotomy of design philosophies in the modern era. Of the approximately 75 works in a wide range of media—including furniture, metalwork, ceramics, glass, textiles, and drawings—half are devoted to designs rooted in the centuries-old vocabulary of classicism, updated yet still linked to the rules and traditions of the past, and the other half to romantic and surreal subjects of fantasy, drawn from the realm of pure imagination.

Schedule

Permanent event

Fee

Suggested Donations: Adults $20, Seniors $15, Students $10, Members and Children Free

Venue Hours

From 9:30 To 17:30
fridays closing at 21:00, saturdays closing at 21:00
Closed on Mondays, Holidays
Note:Open on some holiday Mondays.

Access

Corner of 82nd St. Subway: 6 to 77th Street or 4/5/6 to 86th Street
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Address

1000 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10028
Phone: 2125703951


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