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.
Poets from across the country reflect on the objects, themes, and ideas presented in the exhibition Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina.
MetLiveArts 2021–22 Artist in Residence Bijayini Satpathy’s performance is set against Sam Gilliam’s chromatically striking and texturally dynamic drape painting Carousel State (1968).
Go behind the scenes with artist Cecily Brown, who discusses the inspiration and making of Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid, the first full-fledged museum survey of Brown’s work in New York since she made the city her home.
Watch artist Suzanne Bocanegra present Honor, a stage work that masquerades as an artist lecture about one of The Met's most important 16th-century tapestries.