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Recent Acquisitions Archive
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Every year, the Metropolitan Museum acquires hundreds of works of art through gifts and purchases. Often these acquisitions serve to enhance our holdings by a particular artist—as with the Ingres drawing acquired this past year—or of a particular type of object, such as Roman portrait busts. Occasionally they fill gaps that are inevitable even within a collection as comprehensive as the Metropolitan's—for instance, the Museum owned no paintings by Jasper Johns until White Flag was purchased in 1998. (For further highlights, read the Director's Note from Recent Acquisitions: A Selection: 1998–1999, a special issue of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin.)
Thanks to a resourceful curatorial staff—and, of course, to the Museum's exceedingly generous donors—it is possible to encounter new works of the highest quality every time one visits the Metropolitan. Look for distinctive blue wall labels throughout the building—or prepare for your visit by examining the latest acquisitions online, arranged here into broad geographical categories. You may find that these categories, based on curatorial practice at the Museum, occasionally overlap. To date, there is no strict classification scheme for works of art—at least none that the entire profession can agree upon. We invite you to enjoy these selections on your own terms.
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