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Historical Photographs on Display in the Uris Center for Education

May 13, 2011

By Marlene Graham

My first day as senior manager of the Museum's Uris Center for Education in July 2010 was an exhilarating and hectic day, chock-full of new information, faces, and experiences.
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A Re-creation of Robert Lehman's Sitting Room

October 10, 2014

By Hannah

Former High School Intern Hannah invites visitors to relax and enjoy the masterpieces on view in gallery 958, a re-creation of collector Robert Lehman's sitting room.
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A Tale of Two Mosaics

August 1, 2025

By Michelangelo Iossa and Sarah Lepinski

A stone’s throw from the Imagine mosaic in Central Park’s Strawberry Fields, its ancient Neapolitan inspiration visits The Met.
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Dear Met: Letters and Drawings Inspired by Japanese Art

June 21, 2017

By Skyla Choi

Skyla Choi, an associate producer in the Digital Department, shares letters and drawings from third graders about Japanese art at The Met.
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Lisbon's Hebrew Bible: An Enlightened Acquisition

January 9, 2012

By Barbara Drake Boehm and Melanie Holcomb

By any standards, Lisbon's Hebrew Bible—now on view at the Met—is a masterpiece of medieval illumination. Its acquisition in 1804 by the National Library of Portugal may be credited to the enlightened intellectualism of the institution's first librarian, António Ribeiro dos Santos.
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Our Year in Blogging: A Few Highlights

December 31, 2014

By Eileen Willis

Web Group General Manager Eileen Willis takes a look back at some of the notable blog series and posts of 2014.
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Fellows Series: The Etched Decoration of German Renaissance Armor

November 18, 2011

By Stefan Krause

Armor made from steel plates that covered almost the entire body was developed around the late fourteenth century in Northern Italy, and spread north of the Alps soon after. Most early examples were plain, but by the middle of the fifteenth century armorers began to emboss surfaces with ridges and grooves and add gilt copper-alloy applications, transferring current tastes in civilian fashion to create sumptuous garments of steel.
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Artists on Artworks Celebrates One Year at the Met

October 21, 2013

By Molly Kysar

Assistant Museum Educator Molly Kysar discusses the Artists on Artworks program at the Met, currently celebrating its first anniversary.
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A Brief History of Comic Valentines

February 14, 2024

By Nancy Rosin

They're not always love notes. Explore the history of the penny dreadful.
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The Sounds of The Block

February 22, 2024

By Lauren Rosati

How does the rediscovery of an audio component for Romare Bearden’s monumental collage transform our understanding of it?
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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.