The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, sprawls across the Fifth Avenue location’s Medieval, Byzantine, and Lehman galleries and its Anna…
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"What can an audience tell the performer?"
William Wegman on his video work from 1970–1999 William Wegman (American, born 1943). Video work, 1970–1999. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New…
"How does a foreigner define America?": Alyce Englund on Charles-Honoré Lannuier's pier table
For MetCollects, assistant curator of American decorative arts Alyce Englund discusses the…
Opening May 22 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, History Refused to Die: Highlights from the…
The Met Fifth Avenue: Medieval, Byzantine, Lehman Galleries
Gallery views of The Costume Institute's spring 2018 exhibition, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,…
The vitality and inventiveness of artists in 18th-century New Spain (Mexico) is the focus of the exhibition Painted in Mexico, 1700–1790: Pinxit Mexici, opening…
Dr. Elizabeth Marlowe and Dr. Beth Harris discuss the attribution of the Met's Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus, 251-53 C.E.
The palace of Versailles has attracted travelers since it was transformed under the direction of the Sun King, Louis XIV (1638–1715), from a simple hunting lodge into one of the most magnificent…
In this video, Keith Christiansen, John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of the Department of European Paintings, provides an overview of the Skylights Project—in which the skylights that admit natural…
The Costume Institute's spring 2018 exhibition will feature a dialogue between fashion and medieval art from The Met collection to examine fashion's ongoing engagement with the devotional…
Jizō Bosatsu, late 12th–mid-13th century (Kamakura period, Japan), wood with lacquer, gold leaf, cutout gold foil decoration, and color, 188.6 cm high (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Suspended from the ceiling, Seven ponds and a few raindrops is composed of stainless steel elements that have been molded into a series of sensual, curved, amoeba-like forms covered in…
Watch a video preview of the exhibition Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now), on view at The Met Breuer from March 21 through July 22, 2018.
Watch a video that reveals the findings of a technical examination conducted by The Met's conservation team on Thomas Cole's The Oxbow (1836) and The Course of Empire:…
Before/On/After: William Wegman and California Conceptualism
At The Met Fifth Avenue
January 17–July 15,…
