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Installation shot of this year's Costume Institute exhibition, featuring a group of chrome mannequins in haute couture caught in a battle, surrounded by a panoramic painting of Versailles
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A Virtual Tour of In America: An Anthology of Fashion
May 19, 2022
Charles Ray's copy of ten marble fragments of the Great Eleusinian Relief in aluminum
Sculpture in a Cultural Space
In conversation with Hal Foster, the artist Charles Ray discusses his work’s relationship to ancient reliefs, modern sculpture, and other works of art.
Charles Ray and Hal Foster
May 16, 2022
Mannequin in an evening gown stands in a stately interior space
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In America: An Anthology of Fashion Exhibition Preview
Watch a teaser for The Costume Institute's In America: An Anthology of Fashion—the second in a two-part exhibition exploring fashion in the United States.
April 21, 2022
Thomas Cole's landscape painting "The Oxbow"
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Spotlight: Reexamining the Wilderness Aesthetic
What’s missing from Cole’s environmentalism is the idea of justice.
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser and Alan C. Braddock
April 6, 2022
Indigenous American climate justice activist Xiye Bastida shouts into a megaphone in front of a large-scale protest
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Spotlight: The Importance of Reciprocity
Climate justice activist Xiye Bastida’s perspectives are brought to bear on Thomas Cole’s iconic landscape painting The Oxbow.
April 6, 2022
Honus Wagner, Pittsburgh, National League, from the White Border series (T206) for the American Tobacco Company
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Spotlight: Tracing Economics through Ephemera
An angle on commerce and consumerism through the “holy grail” of baseball card collecting.
Allison Rudnick and Dave Jamieson
March 2, 2022
A woman walks through an exhibition space, looking up at an oversize sculpture of a man in rolled-up jeans, carved from cypress wood.
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A Virtual Tour of Charles Ray: Figure Ground
Explore the exhibition Charles Ray: Figure Ground with two Met curators in this virtual tour, which presents the work of one of the most important contemporary artists.
February 16, 2022
Brown and beige fragment of a floor mosaic with a brown-skinned woman with curly brown hair, a headpiece, and earrings set against a bright yellow ovular spotlight shape in the background.
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Spotlight: Rethinking Representation
Two scholars challenge assumptions about the origins of a Byzantine mosaic and the intent of its maker.
Andrea Myers Achi and Liz James
February 2, 2022
Art Historian and Met educator Emmanuel von Schack standing beside Juan Gris's cubist painting, "Still Life with Checked Tablecloth"
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ASL Tour of "Still Life with Checked Tablecloth" by Juan Gris
Explore Juan Gris’s cubist masterpiece Still Life with Checked Tablecloth. Presented in American Sign Language.
January 7, 2022
The Novelist Min Jin Lee peruses through an assortment of books atop a red-orange tabletop surface, set against a backdrop of book shelves in a New York Public Library study room.
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Spotlight: “Writers are reaching for our thorns; the thorns which define our entire being.”
Novelist Min Jin Lee reflects on Antico’s Spinario in relation to her creative pursuits.
January 6, 2022