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Installation view of the exhibition "Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara."
Africa in Focus
Exhibitions that highlight The Met's engagement with Africa.
November 29, 2023
Two women in conversation with each other stand before a colorful landscape painting in a gold frame.
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Exhibition Tour—Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism
Over an intense nine weeks in the summer of 1905 in the modest fishing village of Collioure on the French Mediterranean, Henri Matisse and André Derain embarked on a partnership that led to a wholly new, radical artistic language later known as Fauvism.
November 9, 2023
The artist Nairy Baghramian, with short brown hair and wearing a white jacket, stands before a large brightly colored modern sculpture installed in one of the niches on The Met's neoclassical facade.
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Meet the Artist—The Facade Commission: Nairy Baghramian, Scratching the Back
Go behind the scenes with artist Nairy Baghramian, who discusses the inspiration and making of The Met’s 2023 Facade Commission.
September 27, 2023
realistic painting of a white women with reddish hair sleeping in a curled up position on a large comfortable looking surface that has maroon red and brown clothe on it. The women is wearing a broad orange dress that is fairly transparent so the outline of her body is prominent. Behind her is a wall and behind that wall is a sunlit reflective body of water with a clear sky. A bright red flower creeps above the wall right above her.
The Fascination of Flaming June
Discover the magnetism of this iconic painting that nearly fell into obscurity.
Alison Hokanson
August 23, 2023
Bisected image of two paintings by VIncent Van Gogh featuring whorling scenes of dark blues and yellows, depicting the night sky and cypresses.
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Exhibition Tour — Van Gogh's Cypresses | Met Exhibitions
Join curator Susan Alyson Stein in a virtual exploration of the exhibition Van Gogh’s Cypresses.
June 1, 2023
CU of one of the Giant's faces.
The Giants of Mont’e Prama
Learn about the discovery and meaning of these ancient stone figures from Sardinia.
Alexis Belis
May 25, 2023
Painting by Phillip Guston of a one-eyed person laying in bed smoking a cigarette with a clock in the background.
Philip Guston at The Met
Musa Guston Mayer reflects on her father's art and its legacy.
Musa Guston Mayer
May 25, 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
Georgia O'Keeffe's painting "From the Faraway, Nearby" with an imaginary mule deer skull and antlers levitating over a generalized desert landscape. A bright yellow ovular shape spotlights the painting from the background.
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Spotlight: Revisiting “O’Keeffe Country”
Two Indigenous scholars discuss what—and who—the artist omits in her depiction of New Mexico
Patricia Marroquin Norby and Matthew Martinez
November 3, 2022
Portrait of a Young Man, Probably Robert Devereux by Nicholas Hilliard
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Secrets of the Tudor Archives
Hear from a scholar whose recent discoveries in British archives have transformed our understanding of these artists and their royal sitters.
October 21, 2022