With just over a week left, now is the time to see Reid Farrington's groundbreaking installation The Return, which brings Tullio Lombardo's Adam to life.

Assistant Museum Librarian Gwen Mayhew profiles Museum volunteer Natalie DeVoe.

How do we define a historical concept so distant yet pertinent today?

Education Assistant Maya Valladares and Program Coordinator Mary Ann Bonet, both from the Education Department, write about some of the art activities #MetKids can participate in at the upcoming Museum Mile Festival.

The Trustees and staff of The Metropolitan Museum of Art mourn the passing of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, whose wise stewardship and tireless devotion benefited this institution in countless ways over the past four decades.

Visiting Research Scholar Sasha Rossman and Assistant Curator Femke Speelberg discuss the close relationship between artistry and weaponry that existed until the end of the nineteenth century.

Former intern Wellington writes about his impression of Édouard Manet's The Spanish Singer, and discusses how art can be used to illustrate respect for and acceptance of other cultures.

Assistant for Administration Julia Rooney explores the themes and techniques Iranian artist Shiva Ahmadi incorporated into one her 2013 works, Pipes.

Associate Curator Isabel Stünkel and intern Sarah Nankivell discuss recent CT scans of objects in the Museum's collection, made possible by a collaboration between the Department of Egyptian Art and the NYU Langone Medical Center Department of Radiology.

Guest blogger Hallie shares some of her favorite gowns in the exhibition Charles James: Beyond Fashion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.