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“If we reorient our view of history, can we expand the view ahead?”
Ned Blackhawk
October 3, 2018
An investigation into materials used by Thornton Dial sheds new light on the artist's practice and the symbolism of his work.
Marina Ruiz Molina
October 2, 2018
Associate Curator Yaëlle Biro recounts some of her recent investigative work to learn more about the use and history of a late nineteenth-century Bongo anthropomorphic post in The Met collection.
Yaëlle Biro
August 27, 2018
Production Editor Dana Miller introduces a new MetCollects episode on Ranjani Shettar's installation Seven ponds and few raindrops.
Dana Miller
August 9, 2018
In this interview, author and curator Amelia Peck discusses the history of quilting in Gee's Bend, Alabama, and how these works of art have historically been misunderstood.
Rachel High
July 16, 2018
In this preface to the Obsession catalogue, exhibition curator Sabine Rewald writes about the "private pleasures" that drew Scofield Thayer to nudes by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Pablo Picasso.
Sabine Rewald
July 3, 2018
Fellow Aleesa Alexander writes on how Ronald Lockett's assemblages weave together themes of race, class, labor, gender, politics, geography, and illness into profound works of art.
Aleesa Alexander
July 3, 2018
To commemorate Pride Month, Managing Editor Michael Cirigliano II takes a look at ten works from The Met collection by, or depicting, artists from the LGBT community.
Michael Cirigliano II
June 1, 2018
Production Editor Dana Miller introduces two new episodes of MetCollects that take an in-depth look at works by immigrants that came to America more than a century apart.
Dana Miller
May 29, 2018
Manager for Library Administration Sophia Alexandrov discusses the way women were portrayed in car trade catalogues from the mid-twentieth century.
Sophia Alexandrov
May 2, 2018