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Detail image of the volute-krater that shows the divine couple seated between two columns, flanked by a priestess and figures playing instruments.
The magnificent volute-krater on loan from Ferrara.
Chiara Pizzirani and Delphine Tonglet
July 30
Curator Denise Murrell stands in a purple shirt before a painting by Aaron Douglas featuring geometric abstracted figures rendered in a wide range of purples and greens.
Video
Join Dr. Denise M. Murrell, Merryl H. and James S. Tisch Curator at Large in The Met’s Director's Office, for a virtual tour of the groundbreaking exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.
Denise Murrell
March 7
Harlem Is Everywhere podcast artwork featuring William Henry Johnsons's "Street Life, Harlem"
Audio
How music, fashion, literature, and art shaped a modern Black identity during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond
February 16
a gold pectoral with coins and a pseudo-medallion that holds fourteen gold coins and two gold discs that are linked together and held by a large gold tube surrounding it.
Why were gold coins used as jewelry throughout the Byzantine Empire?
Stephanie Caruso
January 23
Detail of Edgar Degas's "Monsieur and Madame Édouard Manet," with Edouard Manet lounging on his couch and his wife Suzanne at the piano. The painting has been cut in half vertically at Suzanne's face.
Audio
Explore the legacy of Manet and Degas’s complicated relationship.
Ashley E. Dunn and Stephan Wolohojian
December 8, 2023
Installation view of the exhibition "Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara."
Exhibitions that highlight The Met's engagement with Africa.
November 29, 2023
Two women in conversation with each other stand before a colorful landscape painting in a gold frame.
Video
Over an intense nine weeks in the summer of 1905 in the modest fishing village of Collioure on the French Mediterranean, Henri Matisse and André Derain embarked on a partnership that led to a wholly new, radical artistic language later known as Fauvism.
November 9, 2023
The artist Nairy Baghramian, with short brown hair and wearing a white jacket, stands before a large brightly colored modern sculpture installed in one of the niches on The Met's neoclassical facade.
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Go behind the scenes with artist Nairy Baghramian, who discusses the inspiration and making of The Met’s 2023 Facade Commission.
September 27, 2023
realistic painting of a white women with reddish hair sleeping in a curled up position on a large comfortable looking surface that has maroon red and brown clothe on it. The women is wearing a broad orange dress that is fairly transparent so the outline of her body is prominent. Behind her is a wall and behind that wall is a sunlit reflective body of water with a clear sky. A bright red flower creeps above the wall right above her.
Discover the magnetism of this iconic painting that nearly fell into obscurity.
Alison Hokanson
August 23, 2023
Bisected image of two paintings by VIncent Van Gogh featuring whorling scenes of dark blues and yellows, depicting the night sky and cypresses.
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Join curator Susan Alyson Stein in a virtual exploration of the exhibition Van Gogh’s Cypresses.
June 1, 2023