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Harlem Is Everywhere: Episode 4, Music & Nightlife

March 12, 2024

By Jessica Lynne, James Smalls, Richard J. Powell, Christian McBride, and Carl Phillips

What were the sounds of the Harlem Renaissance?
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At the Reception

March 12, 2024

By Carl Phillips

For me the photograph speaks to optical illusion, to ambiguity, to the blurring of immediate impressions and assumptions.
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Harlem Is Everywhere: Episode 5, Art as Activism

March 19, 2024

By Jessica Lynne, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Jordan Casteel, and Bridget R. Cooks

What was the political legacy of the Harlem Renaissance?
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Museums Without Men at The Met

March 8, 2024

By Katy Hessel

Traverse the Museum’s galleries highlighting remarkable achievements by women artists.
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Save the Date: An Open Access Anniversary Event at The Met

January 24, 2018

By Loic Tallon

Chief Digital Officer Loic Tallon announces an event on February 13 to mark the one-year anniversary of Open Access at The Met.
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Connections

February 10, 2011

By Jennette Mullaney

Jennette Mullaney discusses Connections—a yearlong series consisting of one hundred episodes that inspire fresh ways to approach art—and the viewer responses we've received via Twitter and Facebook.
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Mannequins: A Tool of the Artist's Workshop

April 21, 2016

By Marjorie Shelley

Conservator Marjorie Shelley introduces readers to a 19th-century French mannequin recently acquired by The Met, and traces the use of these lifelike figures by artists from the Renaissance to the early 20th century.
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Immaterial: Space, Part 1

June 18, 2024
Giving form to a feeling.
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Immaterial: Blankets and Quilts

July 16, 2024
Threads of identity.
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The Mediated Image and Jesse Krimes

April 28

By Lisa Sutcliffe

The artist’s work challenges the social and political context of mass incarceration.
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Japanese Illustrated Books

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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Mishneh Torah

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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Électricité

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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A Wooded River Landscape with a Church and Figures

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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Nineteenth-Century Exhibition Pistols

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.
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Small Trades

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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Saint Sebastian

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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Porphyry vessel with bearded masks



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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Brooch with Carved Emeralds and Sapphires

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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Ceremonial ewer



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.