ACC in New York - Tour | Met Museum of Monstrous Beauty | May 8

Thu May 08 2025 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm UTC-04:00

The Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York

American Ceramic Circle
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ACC in New York - Tour | Met Museum of Monstrous Beauty | May 8
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Join the American Ceramics Circle for a tour Monstrous Beauty with curator Iris Moon at the Metropolitan Museum.
About this Event

Join associate curator Iris Moon for a guided tour of . The exhibition radically reimagines the story of European porcelain through a feminist lens. When porcelain arrived in early modern Europe from China, it led to the rise of chinoiserie, a decorative style that encompassed Europe’s fantasies of the East and fixations on the exotic, along with new ideas about women, sexuality, and race. This exhibition explores how this fragile material shaped both European women’s identities and racial and cultural stereotypes around Asian women. Shattering the illusion of chinoiserie as a neutral, harmless fantasy, Monstrous Beauty adopts a critical glance at the historical style and its afterlives, recasting negative terms through a lens of female empowerment.

Bringing together nearly 200 historical and contemporary works spanning from 16th-century Europe to contemporary installations by Asian and Asian American women artists, Monstrous Beauty illuminates chinoiserie through a conceptual framework that brings the past into active dialog with the present. In demand during the 1700s as the embodiment of Europe’s fantasy of the East, porcelain accumulated strong associations with female taste over its complex history. Fragile, delicate, and sharp when broken, it became a resonant metaphor for women, who became the protagonists of new narratives around cultural exchange, consumption, and desire.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 5th Avenue, New York, United States

Tickets

USD 25.00

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