Marking its 150th anniversary, The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened a 6-year renovation project of the British galleries on March 2, 2020. The 11,000-square-foot galleries are devoted to British decorative arts, from 1500–1900. The galleries include important ceramics from the Tudor, Stuart, Georgian, and Victorian eras. Dr. Moon will lead us through a virtual tour of these new galleries.

About the Speaker

Iris Moon, PhD is an assistant curator of European ceramics and glass in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met). Alongside curatorial work at The Met where she recently participated in the reinstallation of the British Galleries, she has taught at Pratt Institute and The Cooper Union. Her research has been supported by The Met, the Clark Art Institute, and the Getty Research Institute. She is the author of The Architecture of Percier and Fontaine and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Revolutionary France (Routledge, 2016). Her new book, Luxury After the Terror, will be published by Penn State Press. She earned her undergraduate degree at Williams College and her PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.