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Two individuals—a woman wearing a teal-colored shirt and a man dressed in all black—stand with their backs to the camera while observing an ancient Egyptian object.
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Exhibition Tour—Divine Egypt
October 23
Scenic landscape with low green scrub and brush against blue-gray mountains cast in sunlight and shadows.
A Song of the Stone
Celebrated composer Gabriela Ortiz sets her latest vocal work to a new Nahuatl poem to mark the reopening of The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
Emery Kerekes
November 6
A woman with closed eyes rests her head on a surface, holding an ornate African mask. The sepia-toned image conveys a serene and introspective mood.
More Than a Muse
Discover Kiki de Montparnasse’s abiding influence on Man Ray’s photographic practice.
Mark Braude
October 10
A graffitied concrete wall in a blacktop court, surrounded by chain-link fencing. Rows of hands expressing different signs fill the court in front of the wall.
Revisiting Attorney Street
”The city has changed so much in the years since you last lived here that no structure can be taken for granted. But the wall is still standing, coated with a patchwork of paint...“
Lisa Hsiao Chen
October 7
A book presented on a wooden table, with a hand on the left side of the page preparing to turn the page.
Video
Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson —The Richard Wright Suite
October 28

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Series from The Met

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Woman holding a camera and filming a child in dancing attire, with text at the top reading "Africa's Cultural Landmarks"
Africa’s Cultural Landmarks
Short documentaries direct a local lens on some of Africa’s most notable cultural landscapes.
A chalk-line illustration of an art detective points her magnifying glass at a microscope; hands reach towards the microscope while a crew of bugs and a fingerprint ghost look on
MetKids Microscope
See the science behind the art (and the art behind the science!) at The Met.
A black-and-white still from the 1928 film Behind the Scenes: The Working Side of the Museum, which depicts the superimposed image of an old-fashioned time-card machine over the face of a wall clock
From The Vaults
Audiovisual materials from the Museum’s extensive archive.

Native American and Indigenous Heritage

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These stories celebrate the cultural achievements of Native American, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian artists.

Two conservators working on preparing a Wari Feathered Panel for installation against a backdrop of checkered yellow and blue panels.
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Installing the Wari Feathered Panels, 600–900 CE
October 3
Francisco Corrales Ulloa talking in front of a gold plaque in the Arts of the Ancient Americas galleries
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Connecting to the Past with Francisco Corrales Ulloa
“It's important to create this connection with the past.”
September 16
Visualization of Oceania from a top down hemispheric perspective
Mapping Oceania with Hawai‘i Artist Sean Connelly
Sean Connelly's Spheric Oceania offers an alternative cartography, mapping Oceania as a cosmic container of ancestral connection.
Maggie Wander and Sean Connelly
August 20

From the Archives

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Articles, images, and film from The Met's 150-year history.

Two people are standing on a crate to attach a large, black-and-white print to the wall, while two stand below holding the rolled part of the print.
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Avedon in Gallery
September 4
Archival image of model figures examining technology displays and floorplans at The Met.
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From The Vaults
Metropolitan Overview, 1975
June 18
Black-and-white photo sheet of objects from around The Met
From The Vaults
Reimagining The Met with Charles and Ray Eames
The Eames-designed visual display at The Met was primed for all types of visitors to understand the relationships between time, place, culture, and artistic value.
Kelsey Rose Williams
June 18

In Circulation

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Read articles and the latest news about The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Libraries' collections, activities, and research related to the history of art.

Two covers of Jamel Shabazz books
Behind the Seams
Resources for exploring Black style and dandyism in The Costume Institute Library.
Julie Lê and Kai Toussaint Marcel
October 15
Can of date syrup in a box
Shelf Life
The conservation of edible books.
Mary Kallem
September 17
Covers of Fashioning the Self volumes one and two
Amplifying Underrepresented Voices
Recent acquisitions and highlights in The Costume Institute Library.
Julie Lê
July 30
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