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Mutu inaugurates The Met’s annual facade commission with The NewOnes, will free Us.
Wangechi Mutu
September 13, 2019
Contemporary Native artists and historians respond to 18th- and 19th-century Euro-American representations of Indigenous subjects in the American Wing’s collection.
September 11, 2019
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Listen to sculptor Robert Laurent (1890–1970) tell his story of emigrating from Brittany, France to New York City in the early twentieth century.
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
July 14, 2019
In honor of WorldPride, the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, and Camp: Notes on Fashion, we explore how designers and cultural icons have used camp to question conventional ideas about taste, gender, race, and sexuality.
Karen Van Godtsenhoven
June 24, 2019
Celebrate Shavuot this year with three works of art from The Met collection, including a set of extraordinary Torah adornments.
Abigail Rapoport
June 7, 2019
Discover powerful artwork by Faith Ringgold and Wendy Red Star that reflects on freedom, justice, and identity.
Emily Sun
May 29, 2019
In honor of WorldPride NYC and Camp: Notes on Fashion, we explore the history of camp culture's trademark, the gesture known as "the camp pose."
Karen Van Godtsenhoven
May 21, 2019
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Join Francesca and Cyrus as artist Ty Defoe connects art in the Museum with stories and dance from his home.
Ty Defoe
April 5, 2019
Senior Library Associate Patrick J. Raftery Jr. explores Thomas J. Watson Library's collection of books on LGBTQ+ art and artists.
Patrick J. Raftery Jr.
March 20, 2019
Did you know that artwork by girls is in The Met collection? See nineteenth-century samplers and needlework pictures from The American Wing.
Catherine Stergar
March 12, 2019