The Met: Live in HD is the Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series of live performances transmitted to theaters in seventy countries around the world. Tickets for the 2019-20 season are on sale now! 

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Implying infinite freedom and open-ended, self-engendering form, the arabesque motif is deeply associated with Islamic art and architecture while also being central to key movements in European art. Long relegated to the status of frame or border, and used chiefly as a decorative addition, arabesque found new life in the nineteenth century as it "broke out of the frame" and came into its own as an independent driver of pictorial innovation. The exhibition will trace this process over a series of moments in European art when arabesque was in the ascendant—from German Romanticism to the Pre-Raphaelites, Nabi artists, and Art Nouveau. Read the full press release.

Dealing with the nature of precarity and intimacy, the result is a self-reflexive and self-critical film that became a backbone of 1970s British cinema and a precursor in form to contemporary performance art practice. Free.

SOLD OUT. Join Grounds Manager Matt Noyes to explore the Clark’s campus by the light of the December full moon, the Full Cold Moon. Space is limited and registration is required.