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The buildings that field owned before they were torn down in a sepia photograph.
A Home for Modern Art in Brooklyn
Hamilton Easter Field worked to bring Brooklyn into the New York art world in the early 20th century—but his efforts have been overlooked.
Anna Anna Jozefacka
November 13, 2023
An interior courtyard featuring sculptures and potted plants
Green Rooms: Plants at the Museum
Gallery photographs over the last century reveal the evolving use of plants in indoor design.
Jennie Choi
November 8, 2023
abstract cubist image with a lot of whites, browns, and greys and lines everywhere.
Reevaluating Picasso’s Unfinished Masterpiece
Scholar and curator Anna Jozefacka discusses an unrealized decorative commission by Pablo Picasso intended for a Brooklyn residence.
Isabelle Qian
October 16, 2023
Detail of the pamphlet for the Act Up Art Box with the text "A limited edition box of objects"
A Short History of the ACT UP Art Box
"ACT UP felt like a collision of creativity, political fervor, and justifiable anger..."
Peter Antony
June 7, 2023
Two construction workers onsite installing the Ming Garden in Astor Court.
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Ming Garden, 1983 | From the Vaults
This short film from 1983 documents the installation of a Ming-style garden courtyard at The Met, the first permanent cultural exchange between the United States and the People’s Republic of China.
May 16, 2023
A pair of black men with feathers decorating their heads and body next to a cup covered with a lid
The Linsky Project: Reinterpreting Porcelain Figures
New interpretive labels help visitors navigate the role of the decorative arts in negotiating race, labor, colonialism, and global commerce.
Marlise Brown
April 12, 2023
Portrait of Anita Reinhard in front of the Temple of Dendur
Anita Reinhard: A Trailblazing Curator of Arms and Armor
One of the first women curators in an American museum, Reinhard was a pioneer in her field.
John Byck
March 20, 2023
Powder Horn of John Mahard
Rediscovering John Bush
Recent research sheds light on the life and work of a Massachusetts militiaman and influential horn carver.
Pierre Terjanian
February 8, 2023
Several plaster mold models of a horse's head and a man's torso on a platform, while a human figure walks around to assess the fragmented sculptures.
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The Making of a Bronze Statue, 1922
How do you make a monument? Produced by the Museum in 1922, this short film follows the American artist Alexander Phimister Proctor’s process of sculpting Theodore Roosevelt.
January 24, 2023
The curators Jeff Rosenheim and Thelma Golden stand before a series of photographs by the renowned Harlem Renaissance photographer James Van Der Zee.
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The James Van Der Zee Archive
James Van Der Zee, the world-renowned chronicler of Black life in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance and for decades thereafter, was a virtuoso portraitist and one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century.
December 13, 2022