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Re-examining Two Newly United Archives at The Met

May 11, 2016

By Julia Rooney

Assistant for Administration Julia Rooney takes a look at a group of archival images from The Met's history and outlines future plans to make these photographs digitally accessible to researchers and art lovers alike.

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One Hundred Years of the Great War through the Eyes of Four Female Artists

January 3, 2018

By Jennifer Farrell

Associate Curator Jennifer Farrell highlights a group of female artists whose work directly confronts the pain and devastation of World War I.

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Through Monet's Garden, a Collaboration Blossoms

May 11, 2012

By Masha Turchinsky

It's springtime in New York, and to celebrate we've collaborated with the New York Botanical Garden on a free app that invites you to experience Claude Monet's living masterpiece, his garden at Giverny.

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Immaterial: Metals, Part Two Transcript

August 31, 2022

Read the complete episode transcript with artwork information

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More than a Museum

August 17, 2022

By Melissa Cholewa

Discovering a library within a museum.

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Reconstructing the Archaic Greek Sphinx

August 12, 2022

By Vinzenz Brinkmann, Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, and Heinrich Piening

See how the sphinx of a Greek funerary monument was reconstructed in its original form and color.

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The Living History of Colombian Art

August 12, 2022

By Isabella Garces

Colombia's art and unique geography provide a different way of looking at and understanding the country's past.

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Celebrating Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month

September 19, 2022

By Isabella Garces

Contemporary artists reflect on how their culture and The Met's collection influence their practice.

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Arte en El Barrio

September 28, 2022

By Louisa M. Raitt

Latinx and Hispanic American Organizations, Workshops, and Alternative Spaces in New York City

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Something for Everyone: From the Archives of the Metropolitan Museum Journal

September 7, 2022

By Elizabeth L. Block and The Metropolitan Museum Journal Board

The Metropolitan Museum Journal Board shares some of their favorite articles past and present.

Art

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.