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Detail of a quilt by Emma Civey Stahl depicting various floral designs and scenes of life during the Civil War in square and circular vignettes.
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Museums Without Men: Emma Civey Stahl
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Katy Hessel and Amelia Peck
March 8, 2024
Detail of Leonora Carrington’s self-portrait of her sporting white jodhpurs and a wild mane of hair; she’s perched on the edge of a chair with her hand outstretched toward the prancing hyena and her back to two horses: a tailless white rocking horse flying behind her and a galloping white horse visible in a curtained window.
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Museums Without Men: Leonora Carrington
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Katy Hessel
March 8, 2024
Emel Mathlouthi in performance, standing in front of a microphone with arms outstretched.
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Emel Mathlouthi: Fi Kolli Yawmen | MetLiveArts
Emel Mathlouthi's viral anthem of the Arab Spring earned her the title “voice of the Tunisian revolution.”
March 8, 2024
Black and white photo of a woman examining a sequence gown wrapped around a mannequin
Defying Gravity
Learn about the transformative collaboration between the designer Zelda Wynn Valdes and the entertainer Joyce Bryant.
Jim Byers
March 7, 2024
Black Abstraction, Georgia O'Keeffe (American, Sun Prairie, Wisconsin 1887-1986 Santa Fe, New Mexico), Oil on canvas
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Abstraction
This painting was different from the work I knew: it seemed somehow vaster than the landscapes, deader than the bones.
Maggie Millner
March 1, 2024
Multi object sculpture, outside of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
To Provoke and Transgress
The writer Manijeh Moradian reflects on the unruly forms of Nairy Baghramian's facade commission.
Manijeh Moradian
December 22, 2023
lithograph of a weary mother and sleeping boy by Kathe Kollowitz
On Motherhood
How does the iconography of motherhood reflect the social, political, and religious ideals of an era?
Hettie Judah
May 10, 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
Painting of multiple sheets of drawn paper pasted in rows. Small line drawings of thick lips are embedded throughout this composition
Women’s Work, Part 2
A second installment of conversations with contemporary women artists who reflect on their art and share what inspires them most in the Museum.
Ann C. Collins
March 20, 2023
Image of Cecily Brown in her studio.
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Meet the Artist—Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid
Go behind the scenes with artist Cecily Brown, who discusses the inspiration and making of Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid, the first full-fledged museum survey of Brown’s work in New York since she made the city her home.
March 20, 2023