Perspectives

Colorful print of two workers drilling at the ground in front of an industrial construction setting.

The Art of the Great Depression

How did a decade of unprecedented financial strife, radical social upheaval, and technological innovation shape art and cultural identity in the United States?

Allison Rudnick September 18

realistic painting of a white women with reddish hair sleeping in a curled up position on a large comfortable looking surface that has maroon red and brown clothe on it. The women is wearing a broad orange dress that is fairly transparent so the outline of her body is prominent. Behind her is a wall and behind that wall is a sunlit reflective body of water with a clear sky. A bright red flower creeps above the wall right above her.

The Fascination of Flaming June

Discover the magnetism of this iconic painting that nearly fell into obscurity.

Alison Hokanson August 23

A Self-Portrait painting by the African American Painter Horace Pippin. A Black man sits against a blue background from his shoulders up looking directly towards us with deep brown eyes. He is wearing a black suit, off-white yellowish suit, and a striped tie with brown and a golden-mustard yellow.

Considering Horace Pippin

How has art history overlooked the crucial role disability played in Pippin's painting?

Bryan Martin July 26

Animation of five Roblox characters standing in The Met in front of two sculptures with the words The Met Replica.

Visit The Met, Enter the Metaverse: Introducing Replica

The Met meets Roblox in a new digital experience.

August 3

Illustrated drum sticks play atop a DIY drum made of a tin can decorated with colorful cut paper shapes; wavy arrows like sound waves point to the drum

What Does Sound Look Like?

Make an instrument and a special tool to visualize sound.

July 5

Painting of a young woman with a baby on her back looking into the distance.

Back to School: P.S. Art 2023

Explore the annual exhibition where New York City's young artists take center stage.

Ann C. Collins and Christopher Alessandrini September 25

Black and white image of the actor Charlie Chaplin dressed as the tramp, a white man in overalls in this scenario and a mustache where he is trapped between massive factory cogs that he is riding while also trying to tighten the bolts with both of his hands at the same time.

A More Perfect Union: American Political Art of the 1930s

The scholar Max Fraser considers how the Great Depression spurred a decade of art influenced by leftist politics.

Molly Morrow September 22

Exploring Art and Libraries

Highlights from the ARLIS/NA Conference in Mexico City

Amy Hamilton, Daisy Paul, Jared Ash, Melissa Raymond, Robyn Fleming, Scott Carlton, Tina Lidogoster, and William Blueher September 20

A chalk-line illustration of a cast of characters from MetKids Microscope Season 2, featuring an art detective pointing her magnifying glass at a microscope, fingerprint ghosts, an assortment of bugs, and a girl resting on a magnifying glass zooming in on a bug-eaten leaf

The science behind the art (and the art behind the science!) at The Met.

Grid of nine black and white photographic portraits of artists

What artists see when they look at The Met

A small bronze sculpture of a seated boy pulling a thorn from the bottom of his foot appears set against a bright yellow ovular spotlight shape in the background.

One Met Icon, New Perspectives

Cellphone showing a red square that reads Frame Of Mind. There is a calm ocean landscape in the background.

An Art & Wellness Podcast

Cream plate with a rim painted with watery motifs in black, including swirls, registers of droplets, and waterlily vegetation.

The God from the Black Water

Maya artists mined a rich body of mythological lore to visualize their gods in imaginative ways.

Joanne Pillsbury and Laura Filloy Nadal Nov 14, 2022

An arching mosaic curtain depicting snow-capped peaks behind fir trees and topped with a proscenium

"A Veritable Poem of Light": Tiffany's Mosaic Curtain in Mexico City

Tiffany Studios completed significant commissions across Latin America in the twentieth century, yet they remain surprisingly understudied.

Juliana Fagua-Arias Oct 6, 2022

Portfolio catalog from La Familia: An En Foco Exhibition

Arte en El Barrio

Latinx and Hispanic American Organizations, Workshops, and Alternative Spaces in New York City

Louisa M. Raitt Sep 28, 2022

Detail of the pamphlet for the Act Up Art Box with the text

A Short History of the ACT UP Art Box

"ACT UP felt like a collision of creativity, political fervor, and justifiable anger..."

Peter Antony June 7

Two construction workers onsite installing the Ming Garden in Astor Court.

Ming Garden, 1983 | From the Vaults

This short film from 1983 documents the installation of a Ming-style garden courtyard at The Met, the first permanent cultural exchange between the United States and the People’s Republic of China.

May 16