Join us on Saturday, October 3rd for the first event of our newest community-building initiative at The Painting School, “Museum Meet Up”!

We are excited that our first-ever Museum Meet Up will be at the iconic Metropolitan Museum and will explore an exhibit featuring modern portrait paintings by some of our favorite artists like Leonora Carrington, Marsden Hartley, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, René Magritte, Henri Matisse, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso, Florine Stettheimer and more! This Meet Up tour will be led by a tour guide from the museum. The entirety of your payment for this opportunity goes to the museum.

The Painting School Museum Meet Ups will sometimes be self-directed and other times will be led by a tour guide, but the Museum Meet Up will always include the opportunity to look at great art with other art lovers!

What: A private group tour of “The Face of Life: Modern Portraits at The Met”. We have 25 available spots and the sign up will be first come, first served.

Where: The Metropolitan Museum

When: Saturday, October 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM

Cost: $28/adult and $20/senior.

More about the exhibit from the website of The Metropolitan Museum: “The Face of Life: Modern Portraits at The Met considers this human drive within the larger history of the last century. Modernism developed amid great political, social, economic, and technological change, and the genre of portraiture expanded alongside it to grapple with these challenges. The selections of works communicate the lived experiences of their subjects in myriad ways, whether or not a figure is even depicted. Less focused on commemoration or conveying power, these portraits satisfy the human need to communicate with a viewer, represent experience, and document a moment of life.

This exhibition examines the language of portraiture from about 1900 to the 1960s through nearly 80 works from The Met collection by artists including Leonora Carrington, Elizabeth Catlett, Marsden Hartley, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, René Magritte, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Alice Neel, Pablo Picasso, Florine Stettheimer, and others. As the Museum prepares for the opening in 2030 of the new Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing for Modern and Contemporary Art, this installation of modern paintings, sculpture, and design objects offers a chance to revisit highlights and discover recent acquisitions by Wifredo Lam, Francis Picabia, and Laura Wheeler Waring that connect across history and the larger Met collection.”