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At 41 carats, the gemstone is the largest known natural green diamond, and is on view now at The Met.
Wolfram Koeppe and Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie
January 28, 2020
Artist Kent Monkman stands in front of a hall with a colorful painting behind.
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Monkman inaugurates The Met’s annual Great Hall Commission with mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People).
Kent Monkman
December 20, 2019
The Met Fifth facade
Celebrate Hanukkah this year at The Met with three extraordinary works currently on view in the Museum.
Abigail Rapoport
December 20, 2019
The celebrated Cree artist arrives at The Met—along with his gender-bending, time-travelling, shape-shifting alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.
Randall Griffey
December 17, 2019
Poet Wendy S. Walters in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts galleries
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Poet Wendy S. Walters confronts the power dynamics at play in creating and viewing Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved!
December 13, 2019
The Met Fifth facade
Four beloved paintings of the Sublime have now been given to The Met, and can be seen in the newly endowed Christen Sveaas Gallery.
Asher Miller
November 25, 2019
The Met Fifth facade
A hundred years ago, The Met acquired a comprehensive collection of prints by the celebrated artist Albrecht Dürer. This fall, the Museum celebrates Dürer by showing his prints in four exhibitions at The Met Fifth Avenue.
Freyda Spira
November 7, 2019
Mutu muses on her sculptures’ relationship to migrancy and science fiction.
Wangechi Mutu
October 30, 2019
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Mutu inaugurates The Met’s annual facade commission with The NewOnes, will free Us.
Wangechi Mutu
September 13, 2019
The Met Fifth facade
A conversation with curator Mia Fineman about the exhibition catalogue for Apollo's Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography.
Rachel High
August 19, 2019