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Following The Met’s temporary closure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, staff began researching how the Museum had responded to other global crises that took place during its 150-year history.
Allison Rudnick and James Moske
December 24, 2020
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Join acclaimed scholars to reflect on the work of the iconic American modernist Jacob Lawrence in conjunction with the exhibition Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle.
Kevin Young, LeRonn P. Brooks, Tammi Lawson, and Randall Griffey
September 16, 2020
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A conversation with the artist Wangechi Mutu and Kelly Baum, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Curator of Contemporary Art.
July 28, 2020
It’s never too early to talk about race, justice, and bias with young people. It will likely require some homework on your part. First, you should take a moment to examine your own thoughts and feelings around the topics.
Julie Marie Seibert
July 2, 2020
A message of solidarity with the black community from the president and director of The Met.
Daniel H. Weiss and Max Hollein
June 1, 2020
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This outrageous and slyly self-aware documentary revisits The Costume Institute’s 1982 exhibition La Belle Époque, from the decadence in fin-de-siècle Paris through the global pandemonium of World War I.
May 1, 2020
“I wanted a persona to really reflect our point of view at the time that colonial policies were beginning.”
Kent Monkman
December 23, 2019
The celebrated Cree artist arrives at The Met—along with his gender-bending, time-travelling, shape-shifting alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.
Randall Griffey
December 17, 2019
“I’ve chosen to stick with the subject of the female body as a platform for what we feel about ourselves as humans.”
Wangechi Mutu
November 11, 2019
Mutu muses on her sculptures’ relationship to migrancy and science fiction.
Wangechi Mutu
October 30, 2019