The Met: Exhibition Tours
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibition Tours & Virtual Openings
Beginning in 2021, The Metropolitan Museum of Art enlisted us to direct and produce a series of in-depth tour videos for the museum’s marquee special exhibitions. This began as a Covid-era initiative to host virtual opening events while in-person gatherings were still on hiatus, yet the success of the tours in reaching broad online audiences and archiving special exhibitions in engaging, experiential ways have made this series a mainstay in the Met’s digital production portfolio.
In this ongoing partnership, we’ve produced upwards of fifteen 20- to 30-minute exhibition tour films, each offering in-depth curatorial commentary and extensive exhibition footage, with many featuring an original score.
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Videos produced by SandenWolff in association with The Met
Managing Producers: Kimberly Chen, Kate Dobie, Kate Farrell
Producer: Melissa Bell
Directors: Jonathan Sanden, Noah Therrien
Interviewer / Story Editor: Rachel Wolff
Camera: Jonathan Sanden, Noah Therrien, Nate Reininga
Editors: Hannah Kaylor, Stephen Parnigoni
Music: Noah Therrien
Additional music courtesy Jamendo
Alice Neel: People Come First Virtual Opening - As one of the twentieth century’s most radical artists, and a champion of social justice whose longstanding commitment to humanist principles inspired her life as well as her art.
Directed by Jonathan Sanden. Interview/Story Edited by Rachel Wolff.
Goya’s Graphic Imagination Virtual Opening - Mark McDonald, Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints, takes us on a virtual tour of Goya’s Graphic Imagination to explore how Goya’s drawings and prints allowed him to share his complex ideas and respond to the turbulent social and political changes occurring in the world around him.
Directed by Jonathan Sanden. Interview/Story Edited by Rachel Wolff. Shot by Noah Therrien and Jonathan Sanden.
The New Woman Behind the Camera Virtual Opening - The New Woman of the 1920s through the 1950s was a global phenomenon that embodied an ideal of female empowerment based on real women making revolutionary changes in life and art.
Directed by Jonathan Sanden. Interview/Story Edited by Rachel Wolff.
The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570 Virtual Opening - This stunning exhibition features over 90 works in a wide range of mediums, from paintings, sculptural busts, medals, and carved gemstones to drawings, etchings, manuscripts, and armor.
Directed by Jonathan Sanden. Interview/Story Edited by Rachel Wolff.