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Library Date Night

February 21

By Jessica S. Ranne Cardona

Visit Watson Library for a Special Behind-the-Scenes Tour
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Defying Gravity

March 7

By Jim Byers

Learn about the transformative collaboration between the designer Zelda Wynn Valdes and the entertainer Joyce Bryant.
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Out in the Stacks

June 26

By Daisy Paul

Honoring LGBTQIA+ artists with Watson Library's new index.
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Celebrating the 15th International Zine Month at Watson Library

July 17

By Melissa Raymond and Clara Salyer

A selection of Watson’s international zines.
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Mexican Prints at the Vanguard

September 16

By Mark McDonald

Discover the rich history of printmaking in Mexico and the The Met’s collecting of these prints.
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The Preservation of Time

September 18

By Clare Manias

Conserving Tacita Dean's _The Book End of Time_
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Around the World (in 7,665 days)

January 18, 2023

By Holly Phillips

Watson Library’s Contemporary Gallery Project
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A Snapshot of Black Photographers in Watson Library's Collection

February 22, 2023

By Angela Washington

Celebrating Black History Month in the Stacks
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Hidden Bagpipes of The Met

March 10, 2023

By Cassandre Balosso-Bardin

To celebrate International Bagpipe Day, join one of the holiday's co-founders on a tour of bagpipes at the Museum.
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The Linsky Project: Reinterpreting Porcelain Figures

April 12, 2023

By Marlise Brown

New interpretive labels help visitors navigate the role of the decorative arts in negotiating race, labor, colonialism, and global commerce.
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Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden)

...numerous masterpieces of woodblock printing, many of which are nearly impossible to find in such fine condition today...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Master of the Barbo Missal

"...The Met takes a major step in presenting masterpieces of Judaica..."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Man Ray

This remarkably seductive album of photogravures is an exquisite example of his legacy as America's greatest Surrealist photographer...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Hendrick Avercamp

"...His finished drawings are much rarer, and the present one is among his best of an imaginary landscape..."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Gilles Michel Louis Moutier-Le Page

...these very pistols spectacularly confirmed that the French were then unsurpassed in their mastery of the gunmaker's art...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
Irving Penn

"The resulting portraits–landmarks in the history of twentieth century photography–are a brilliant update of some 300 years’ interest by artists in producing pictures of small tradesmen, or petit métiers."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Master of the Furies

When this compelling, transformative statuette of Saint Sebastian became available, it was an opportunity not to be missed, as the Museum has nothing comparable...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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This is one of the most elegant and best-preserved porphyry vessels to have survived from classical antiquity...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Cartier

The journey of the emerald in this brooch from Colombia, where it originated in its natural state, to seventeenth-century India and back to New York underscores the abiding and universal attraction of great gems.

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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With the daring amalgamation of the whimsical, exotic, and macabre, the sculptural details on this ewer brilliantly show off the distinctive Portuguese interpretation of Renaissance style.

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.