Metropolitan Museum Presents Frank Stella on the Roof: May 1-October 28, 2007 (weather permitting)

An installation of recent works in stainless steel and etched aluminum by the prolific American artist Frank Stella, set in the most dramatic outdoor space for sculpture in New York City: The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, which offers a spectacular view of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline.

Grans mestres de la pintura europea de The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nova York. D'El Greco a Cézanne

A selection of celebrated Old Master and 19th-century European paintings from the Metropolitan Museum's collection.

Flowing Streams: Scenes from Japanese Art and Life: Through June 3, 2007

Since ancient times the ceaseless flow of streams and rivers that crisscross the islands of Japan has been likened to the transitory nature of life.

Brush and Ink: The Chinese Art of Writing: Through January 21, 2007

In China, calligraphy, "the art of writing," is regarded as the quintessential visual art, ranking above painting as the most important vehicle for individual expression. As such, calligraphy may be appreciated in much the same way as some abstract art-by following the artist's every gesture, reexperiencing the kinesthetic action of creation as preserved in the inked lines.

Journeys: Mapping the Earth and Mind in Chinese Art: February 10-August 26, 2007

This installation, featuring 70 works dating from the 11th to the 21st century, explores the theme of journeys both real and imagined. Depictions of real journeys range from intimate scenes of individual departures and returns to grand imperially commissioned panoramas of royal inspection tours and extravagantly detailed maps of the Yangzi River and Grand Canal.

Mother-of-Pearl: A Tradition in Asian Lacquer: Through April 1, 2007

In the 12th century, craftsmen in southern China refined a long-standing tradition that combined mother-of-pearl and lacquer to create sumptuous painterly scenes of figures in landscapes, flowers, and birds. This installation traces the evolution of this astonishing technology in East Asia, India, and Thailand.

An exhibition of vintage photographs celebrating one of the most memorable episodes in the history of archaeology - the discovery and exploration of the tomb of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun (Dynasty 18; ruled ca. 1336-1327 B.C.) - will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art through April 29, 2007.

Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings: The Clark Brothers Collect will bring together for the first time celebrated masterpieces once owned by rival brother collectors Robert Sterling Clark (1877-1956), founder of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, and Stephen Carlton Clark (1882-1960), a former trustee and illustrious donor to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Neo Rauch at the Met presents six new paintings made specifically for this exhibition by the artist Neo Rauch (b. 1960, Leipzig, Germany), one of the most widely acclaimed painters of his generation. The exhibition - on view from May 22 through September 23, 2007 -is the third in the Museum's series dedicated to artists at mid-career, following exhibitions featuring Tony Oursler in 2005 and Kara Walker in 2006.

Barcelona and Modernity: Gaudí to Dalí- the first comprehensive exhibition of its type ever mounted in America - explores the diverse and innovative work of Barcelona's artists, architects, and designers in the years between the Barcelona Universal Exposition of 1888 and the imposition of the Fascist regime of Francisco Franco in 1939. Exhibition will be on view from March 7 to June 3, 2007.

With nearly 200 works of art from more than 60 public and private collections around the world, Venice and the Islamic World, 828 - 1797 is the first major exhibition to explore one of the most important and distinctive facets of Venetian art history: the exchange of art objects and interchange of artistic ideas between the great Italian maritime city and her Islamic neighbors in the eastern Mediterranean.

A spectacular "museum-within-the-museum" for the display of its extraordinary collection of Hellenistic, Etruscan, South Italian, and Roman art - much of it unseen in New York for generations - will open on Friday, April 20, 2007 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art this April in its New Greek and Roman Galleries.