Save the date for an upcoming private exhibition tour with curator Abraham Thomas. More details to follow.

Abraham Thomas joined The Met in 2020 as the Daniel B. Brodsky Curator of Modern Architecture, Design, and Decorative Arts where he most recently curated The Met’s Roof Garden Commission: Lauren Halsey (2023). Previously, he worked at the Smithsonian Institution (2016–20) where he was curator-in-charge of the Renwick Gallery, and then senior curator at the Arts and Industries Building. Prior to this—based in London—he was a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2005–13), and the director of Sir John Soane’s Museum (2013–15). His exhibitions at the Smithsonian included Futures (2021) and Disrupting Craft (2018); and at the V&A, Heatherwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary (2012), 1:1 – Architects Build Small Spaces (2010), and Owen Jones: A Higher Ambition (2009). For the Sainsbury Centre in the UK he also co-curated Superstructures: The New Architecture 1960–1990 (2018). His other roles include serving on the jury of the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize; and the Board of Trustees at the Penland School of Craft in North Carolina.

Wednesday November 20, 3:00 pm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Exhibition opens September 30