Director and CEO Max Hollein shares architect Frida Escobedo’s dynamic vision for the new Tang Wing.

Ken Moore, Frederick P. Rose Curator in Charge of the Department of Musical Instruments, discusses the West African kalimba ahead of this week's gallery concert featuring "kalimbatarist" Trevor Gordon Hall.

Managing Horticulturist Caleb Leech discusses the uses of medieval cereal grains and compares them to their descendants.

In honor of Johann Sebastian Bach's birthday, Jayson Dobney introduces a performance of one of the composer's famed cello suites on a prized instrument from the Museum's collection.

Associate Curator Elizabeth Cleland highlights the innovative design work of Pieter Coecke van Aelst, the focus of the upcoming exhibition Grand Design: Pieter Coecke van Aelst and Renaissance Tapestry.

Curator Tim Husband discusses the games played using the early European in the exhibition The World in Play: Luxury Cards, 1430–1540.

Deirdre Larkin, managing horticulturist of The Met Cloisters, discusses the art of topiary and its significance in medieval gardens.

Assistant Book Conservator Andrijana Sajic examines some of the creatures that love (to eat) books.

On view in the Musical Instruments galleries is an arresting stringed object, an armadillo shell for its back. Ken Moore, the Frederick P. Rose Curator in Charge of Musical Instruments, spoke with Associate Email Marketing Manager Jennette Mullaney about this work.

Guest blogger Jackson invites the Met’s visitors to look up from their phones.

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.