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YoungArts Gold Award Winner Benny Benack III writes about his recent experience playing a pair of trumpets in The Met collection.
Benny Benack III
January 23, 2019
The latest episodes of MetCollects—our monthly online feature highlighting works of art new to the Museum's collection—celebrate two works of art that elevate language and the printed word.
Dana Miller
January 22, 2019
Now on view at The Met Fifth Avenue, Rashid Choudhury's 1981 tapestry is an aesthetically innovative work by an influential artist, writer, and teacher.
Shanay Jhaveri
January 18, 2019
With less than a week left to visit Celebrating Tintoretto: Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings, one of the exhibition's curators muses on the vibrant modernity and astonishing immediacy of Jacopo Tintoretto's small-scale portraits.
Alison Manges Nogueira
January 18, 2019
A recent addition to The Met collection, Kara Walker's Resurrection Story with Patrons engages contemporary reports of racial violence in the United States and the imagery, histories, and monuments of Christian martyrdom.
Jennifer Farrell
January 15, 2019
A major new acquisition was recently installed in the galleries of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European paintings and sculpture: a statue of the sea goddess Galatea, made in 1906 by the leading German artist Max Klinger.
Alison Hokanson
January 15, 2019
What makes Atea: Nature and Divinity in Polynesia a must-see exhibition? Prepare for your visit with this introduction to the show's themes.
Maia Nuku
January 4, 2019
The story of a remarkable seventeenth-century map, on view in Armenia!, that depicts the lands and history of the Armenian people.
Constance Alchermes
January 2, 2019
The Met Breuer Architecture Tour features stories about a landmark building, its remarkable history, and the architect himself.
Nina Diamond
December 19, 2018
YoungArts Gold Award Winner Gabe Schnider recounts his recent experience playing The Met's 1993 D'Aquisto Guitar.
Gabe Schnider
December 11, 2018