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A sheet of paper with a figure and cutout outfits for dressing up paper dolls.
Domestic Fantasies
Historic paper dolls from the Drawings and Prints collection tell a story of conspicuous consumption and evolving social values.
Liliya Dashevski
March 12
Woman sitting, black and white shading. She looks to be in distress.
The Deeply Political Art of Paula Rego

A selection of the artist's prints candidly portrays the experience of women during periods of political oppression.

Jennifer Farrell
December 9, 2024
A mixed-media collage decorated with two black-and-white photos, a childlike drawing, and an image of the Virgin Mary and Jesus surrounding a drawing of a flower and poem about the artist's mother.
Juan Sánchez on the Guariquen Portfolio
Learn more about the artist’s singular blending of media, Puerto Rican and Nuyorican culture, activism, issues of colonialism, and personal history in his remarkable prints.
Deborah Cullen-Morales
September 27, 2024
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Mexican Prints at the Vanguard
Discover the rich history of printmaking in Mexico and the The Met’s collecting of these prints.
Mark McDonald
September 16, 2024
Black shaded drawing of a black boat sailing with threee people.
Reflections on Flooding
How have printmakers in the United States addressed a long history of inundation and the social inequities it exacerbates?
Juan Gabriel Ramirez Bolívar
July 29, 2024
A person leans over to place a book between the plates of a book press in the foreground at right.
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Conserving Rusconi: Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture
Go behind the scenes at The Met to see the conservation of a 17th-century edition of Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture.
July 18, 2024
Black-and-white poster with a bold statistic about AIDS, an image of a baby doll, and accompanying text about HIV/AIDS in babies.
Queer Activist Art
Gran Fury’s weapons of mass production.
Jasmine Kuylenstierna
June 7, 2024
A woman in a multicolored dress is seated on a yellow couch, her back to the viewer. In the background at right is a black and white portrait of a mother holding a baby; at left is the room's doorway. The wallpaper and floor is characterized by whimsical and geometric designs, including portraits as part of the wallpaper.
How to Read Portraits

Kathryn Calley Galitz takes a deep dive into
portraiture from Ancient Roman coins to Instagram selfies.

Rachel High
June 6, 2024
Printed graphic image of a white woman seductively holding a poppy flower. The Woman and the peony are an orange color and the background of the image is black and the woman's dress and hat are created just using orange outlines.
By Women, for Women: American Art Posters of the 1890s
How did women emerge as active creators of art and visual culture in the nineteenth century?
Shannon Vittoria
April 19, 2024
An image of two young figures sitting on the branch of a birch tree. The top and bottom portions of the image are blurred, drawing attention to the in-focus face of the figure on the left.
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“Birches” by Robert Frost: An Optical Poem, 2024
“When I see birches bend to left and right / Across the lines of straighter darker trees, / I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.” On April 7, 1955, Robert Frost delivered a poetry reading at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
March 26, 2024