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Image of the artist cecily brown in front of an abstraction.
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An Evening with Cecily Brown
Join artist Cecily Brown and Met curator Adam Eaker for a conversation about Brown’s engagement with art history, influences from The Met collection, and her own singular artistic practice.
Adam Eaker
June 25, 2023
Artist Jon Gray, a dark-skinned male with medium-length braids, sits smiling during an interview in front of a pottery piece presented at the Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina exhibition.
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Meet Jon Gray, Artist-in-Residence
Civic Practice Partnership artist-in-residence Jon Gray is the cofounder of the Bronx-based collective Ghetto Gastro. The collective is committed to feeding, inspiring, and growing young entrepreneurs in the Bronx while establishing the locale as a culinary destination.
June 15, 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
White mannequin wearing a white dress designed by Karl Lagerfeld against a pitch-black backdrop.
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Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty—Exhibition Tour with Andrew Bolton
Join Andrew Bolton, the Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute, on a tour of the exhibition "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty."
Andrew Bolton
May 12, 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
Crop from a page of Berenice Abbott's New York Album from 1929, which depicted snapshots of New York City in black and white photography.
Mapping Berenice Abbott’s New York
New research charts the photographer’s many excursions across Manhattan in 1929.
Mia Fineman
March 15, 2023
Contemporary artist Jas Knight, a black man, paints on a toned canvas as he copies Diego Velazquez’s Juan de Pareja (1650) at The Met's European Painting galleries.
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The Art of the Copyist
Discover the pleasure of sustained looking alongside contemporary artist Jas Knight as he copies Diego Velázquez’s Juan de Pareja.
Jas Knight
March 9, 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
Rashida Bumbray, Untitled (How High the Moon), 2022
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Rashida Bumbray | Civic Practice Partnership, 2017–2021
Civic Practice Partnership artist-in-residence Rashida Bumbray is a performance artist, curator, choreographer, and the Director of Culture and Art at the Open Society Foundations. Her work focuses on Black urban spaces and communities, and what it means to be in a space that has layers of generational trauma.
January 19, 2023