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Black jug adorned with a red-figured man with long hair and wearing a tunic, drawing an arrow from a lunge position.
Six objects in The Met collection take you on Odysseus’s famed journey.
Department of Greek and Roman Art
August 6
Religious relief sculpture featuring a central figure surrounded by angels, set against a blue background.
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This video uses 3D color-rendered scans to illustrate how the sections were fitted together like pieces in a building-block puzzle.

August 6
Search engine result of various cats
A peek behind the curtains at the process of improving the world’s largest online art museum collections.
Julie Turgeon and Derek Au
August 5
A glamorous-looking woman caught mid-laugh. She holds a camera.
Video
This film offers a rare look into the life and work of the artist Lillian Bassman, who helped introduce an avant-garde sensibility to the American newsstand.
July 23
Colorful cover
Exploring fashion through the lens of music in The Costume Institute Library.
Julie Lê
July 22
Manuscript page with a labeled hand diagram, flanked by scrolls, two religious figures, and Latin text.
How did this revolutionary musical notation technique, developed by a monk in the tenth century, transform music pedagogy?
Rebecca Lindsey
July 20
Diptych of a blocky historical scene at top, and the iconic image of George Washington on a boat on the icy Delaware River at bottom.
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In part three of Making History, delve into how contemporary artists have reclaimed the past.
Kathryn Calley Galitz
June 28
Two women angled towards each other in a skylit gallery with white statues on pedestals in the background.
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Writer Ann Patchett on choosing a work from The Met collection to include in Whistler, her latest novel.
June 25
Botanical illustration of a single flower with long leaves and curved pinkish petals on a plain background.
A selection of watercolors by the celebrated artist and designer portray the disappearance of the longleaf pine ecosystem in twentieth-century America.
Nithya Guthikonda
June 24
An assembly of formally dressed men gather around a table with a document in a historical setting
Objects on view in Revolution! offer insights into how artists on both sides of the Atlantic responded to the political and military drama that unfolded before and after the Declaration of Independence.
Constance C. McPhee
June 18