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A carved frontlet which would be attached to an elaborate headdress and worn on the forehead of a high-ranking man for a ceremonial dance honoring the creatures of land, sea, and sky. A bird with humanoid features, perhaps a hawk, appears in the center. Along the rim, panels of iridescent abalone shell alternate with small human faces.

Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection

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Promotional image for The Met's British Galleries, featuring an array of teapots.

The British Galleries

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black dress and white dress on white mannequins, About Time exhibition identity, white background

About Time:
Fashion and Duration

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A painting of an island with Indigenous people helping shipwrecked settlers and slaves ashore

The Great Hall Commission: Kent Monkman, mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People)

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Standing at an open window, a woman begins her day with ablutions from a gilt-silver pitcher and basin, with linen coverings protecting her dress and hair.

In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met

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A loose grid of paintings depicting portraits and landscapes are digitally collaged on a dark grayish cyan blue background color; the text “A New Look at Old Masters The Collection of European Paintings” appears in overlay.

A New Look at Old Masters

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Framed charcoal on paper rubbing by Rayyane Tabet

Rayyane Tabet
Alien Property

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A top-down view of a Japanese village covered in golden fog

Kyoto: Capital of Artistic Imagination

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Suzy Lake. Miss Chatelaine, 1973, 4x3 grid of black and white photographs, head and shoulders view of the same woman with different hairstyles

Pictures, Revisited

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Color image of a wooden anthropomorphic deity figure (zemí) made in the Dominican Republic ca. AD 1000

Arte del mar: Artistic Exchange in the Caribbean

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Crossroads

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Gifts in Celebration of the Museum's Anniversary

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Detail from one of Gerhard Richter's Birkenau paintings; a brutal abstract canvas with layers of black, white, gray, green, and red paint

Gerhard Richter:
The Birkenau Paintings

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Center view of a red floored hallway with arching yellow ceilings

Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Anniversary Highlights

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Detail of Boroughscape by Evan Konstantinidis, a rainbow cityscape of Brooklyn and Manhattan connected by a bridge

P.S. Art 2020:
Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids

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A composite of The Virgin and Child on the lower left corner and an alabaster sculpture of Charity carrying young children on the upper right corner. The background is dark purple.

Relative Values: The Cost of Art in the Northern Renaissance

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Detail of painting showing two figures, Rama and Lakshman, sitting on rock

Sita and Rama: The Ramayana in Indian Painting

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Earthenware bowl with interior geometric decoration.

Art and Peoples of the Kharga Oasis

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Detail from a Ted Williams All-Star Baseball card with Williams wearing a Red Sox uniform preparing to swing a bat on a bright red background.

Selections from the Collection of Jefferson R. Burdick

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A silver octopus with a chain attached to each of its legs.

Jewelry for America

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An archival black and white photograph of class of high school students viewing a textile exhibition, overlapping a green silk textile.

Art for the Community: The Met’s Circulating Textile Exhibitions, 1933–42

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Black and white drawing of a robed man with his hair tied up holding out a hand in front of him palm up.

Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Up Close

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Fabergé from the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection

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Close-up view of the handle of an intricately carved, silver and ivory handgun over a deep red background

Emperors, Artists & Inventors: Transformative Gifts of Fine Arms and Armor

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In the foreground, a lush garden with small fruit trees in blossom; in the background, who women sit under a stone arcade with double columns.

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The Met Unframed

Enter this new augmented reality experience powered by Verizon to roam virtual galleries and complete challenges to take Met masterpieces home in AR, wherever you are.

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Augmented reality versions of a selection of Dutch paintings in The Met Collection on display in a gallery setting

The Met Cloisters stands at a distance. In the foreground, there are trees without leaves.

Journey to the Middle Ages

Explore an extraordinary world full of triumphs of medieval imagination at The Met Cloisters.

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Composite image of artist Maira Kalman, designer Lillian Tong and poet Chris Hosea, speechwriter Jared Spencer and his husband, Joshua Dumas, and art educator Jim Kuhlman

Met Stories: Love

Watch the latest episode featuring four stories of finding romance at The Met, or catch up on the whole season.

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Ancient Sumerian female worshipper made from limestone, inlaid with shell and lapis lazuli

Art for Resilience

Met staff reflect on artworks that inspire resilience, from a Sumerian limestone statue to a contemporary collage by Wangechi Mutu.

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Detail of the eyes of an iron war mask with organic, abstract gold decoration from Tibet.

MetCollects: Tibetan War Mask

This episode of MetCollects focuses on an exceptionally rare and enigmatically beautiful war mask that is one of only two known examples from Tibet.

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