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Silas Farley photographed in the Astor Chinese Garden Court at The Met.

Digital premiere—Silas Farley: Songs from the Spirit

In Songs from the Spirit, New York City Ballet dancer and choreographer Silas Farley asks, "What does freedom mean?" Coming this Saturday.

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Artist Kehinde Wiley looking at paintings by John Singer Sargent in the American Wing

Our favorite Artist Project episodes

The digital editors pick 12 of their favorite episodes from The Met's award-winning series.

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Met Stories: Connection

A Met staff member stumbles upon a work by Glenn Ligon online and connects its powerful words to her everyday experience as a Black woman, and a visitor unexpectedly discovers her Mongolian heritage and a new place to share it.

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Collage of colored silhouettes by Henri Mattise, with a dancing human figure and the word "cirque" repeated twice

Art for extraordinary circumstances

Met staff reflect on artworks that were made under extraordinary circumstances, from Henri Matisse to an opera by Gertrude Stein.

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Detail of a bronze sculpture of a seated woman with a large mirrored circle on her forehead

The Facade Commission: Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us

at The Met Fifth Avenue

Color image of a black Balenciaga gown on a white mannequin

In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection

at The Met Fifth Avenue

Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara

Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara

at The Met Fifth Avenue

A multi-media work on paper of two overlapping circular cut-outs, one showing a starry galaxy and another, a solar system diagram.

From Géricault to Rockburne: Selections from the Michael and Juliet Rubenstein Gift

at The Met Breuer

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

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

at The Met Fifth Avenue

Zoom of an ant carrying a piece of paper with the peace sign.

Home Is a Foreign Place: Recent Acqusitions in Context

at The Met Breuer

Black and white photograph by Cindy Sherman of a young woman with a suitcase on a deserted American highway surrounded by a rocky, mountainous landscape

Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection

at The Met Fifth Avenue

A cool-toned, blue-and-white photorealistic painting of several iceburgs.

Gerhard Richter: Painting After All

at The Met Breuer

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

The British Galleries

at The Met Fifth Avenue

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

at The Met Fifth Avenue

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

at The Met Fifth Avenue

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

Kyoto: Capital of Artistic Imagination

at The Met Fifth Avenue

White-on-teal typography reading "Crossroads

Crossroads

at The Met Fifth Avenue

Gifts in Celebration of the Museum's Anniversary

at The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Breuer, and The Met Cloisters

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

at The Met Fifth Avenue

Framed charcoal on paper rubbing by Rayyane Tabet

Rayyane Tabet
Alien Property

at The Met Fifth Avenue

Earthenware figurine of a rat

Celebrating the Year of the Rat

at The Met Fifth Avenue

A photograph of a 19th-century interior, with orange patterned wallpaper, a carved wooden chair, and a framed painting of an autumn landscape

Aesthetic Splendors: Highlights from the Gift of Barrie and Deedee Wigmore

at The Met Fifth Avenue

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

Jewelry for America

at The Met Fifth Avenue

Photograph of a nineteenth century studio photographer taking a photograph using a tented camera.

2020 Vision: Photographs, 1840s–1860s

at The Met Fifth Avenue

green and beige linear geometric abstract design on linen by Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright Textiles: The Taliesin Line, 1955–60

at The Met Fifth Avenue

A British linocut of eight rowers on a river.

Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Collectors' Collections

at The Met Fifth Avenue

Earthenware bowl with interior geometric decoration.

Art and Peoples of the Kharga Oasis

at The Met Fifth Avenue

White jade carving of boy with water buffalo

A Passion for Jade: Heber Bishop and His Collection

at The Met Fifth Avenue

Illustration of the baseball player Jimmy Foxx holding a bat preparing to swing with a view of a diamond baseball field and crowded behind him against a partly cloudy sky.

Selections from the Collection of Jefferson R. Burdick

at The Met Fifth Avenue

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

Sita and Rama: The Ramayana in Indian Painting

at The Met Fifth Avenue

A gilt brass sculpture of Daoist immortal Laozi. Laozi is identifiedd by his full beard. He wears a lotus crown.

Children to Immortals: Figural Representations in Chinese Art

at The Met Fifth Avenue

Black-and-white painting of two men in traditional Chinese dress sitting on the side of a mountain, next to a tree, looking at the moon.

Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Up Close

at The Met Fifth Avenue

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

at The Met Fifth Avenue