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“The first time I stood before the painting, I could not believe my eyes, because I could not believe her eyes.”
Billy Collins
July 30
Ancient mosaic featuring a central Medusa head, radiating petal-like patterns, geometric borders, and four corner masks on a stone background.
A Tale of Two Mosaics
A stone’s throw from the Imagine mosaic in Central Park’s Strawberry Fields, its ancient Neapolitan inspiration visits The Met.
Michelangelo Iossa and Sarah Lepinski
August 1
Joanne Pillsbury and Laura Filloy Nadal standing in front of a female sculpture in the Ancient Americas galleries of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
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Exhibition Tour—Arts of the Ancient Americas | Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
Join curators Joanne Pillsbury and Laura Filloy Nadal to celebrate the renovation and reopening of the Arts of the Ancient Americas galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
Joanne Pillsbury and Laura Filloy Nadal
July 17
A green, yellow, and pink parrot's head, with a hinge at the base of its neck.
Little Luxuries
A closer look at the British enamels industry surfaces complex questions around consumerism, exploitation, and nationalism that continue to reverberate today.
Ella Mints
July 18
The backs of Maia Nuku and Max Hollein as they look up at Bisj poles in the Arts of Oceania galleries
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Exhibition Tour—Arts of Oceania | Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
Join curator Maia Nuku to celebrate the renovation and reopening of the Arts of Oceania galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
Maia Nuku
July 24

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Series from The Met

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Woman holding a camera and filming a child in dancing attire, with text at the top reading "Africa's Cultural Landmarks"
Africa’s Cultural Landmarks
Short documentaries direct a local lens on some of Africa’s most notable cultural landscapes.
A chalk-line illustration of an art detective points her magnifying glass at a microscope; hands reach towards the microscope while a crew of bugs and a fingerprint ghost look on
MetKids Microscope
See the science behind the art (and the art behind the science!) at The Met.
A black-and-white still from the 1928 film Behind the Scenes: The Working Side of the Museum, which depicts the superimposed image of an old-fashioned time-card machine over the face of a wall clock
From The Vaults
Audiovisual materials from the Museum’s extensive archive.

Nature

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These articles highlight the relationship between art and the Earth.

Wood scene showing a commotion of figures and animals in distress
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From The Vaults
“Woods” by W. H. Auden: An Optical Poem, 2025
February 21
The people standing together in a gallery with hard hanging from the wall, facing them.
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Exhibition Tour—Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature
February 20
Two men in coats stand beside a large tree, gazing at a crescent moon in a dusky sky.
Winter in the Newest World
The figures in Friedrich’s painting are entirely embodied, present with their thoughts and with each other, just as I have longed to be.
Emily Pittinos
February 3

From the Archives

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Articles, images, and film from The Met's 150-year history.

Archival image of model figures examining technology displays and floorplans at The Met.
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From The Vaults
Metropolitan Overview, 1975
June 18
Black-and-white photo sheet of objects from around The Met
From The Vaults
Reimagining The Met with Charles and Ray Eames
The Eames-designed visual display at The Met was primed for all types of visitors to understand the relationships between time, place, culture, and artistic value.
Kelsey Rose Williams
June 18
A child holds up a multicolored paper ornament in a fuzzy image
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From The Vaults
Scraps, 1973
March 21

In Circulation

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Read articles and the latest news about The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Libraries' collections, activities, and research related to the history of art.

Covers of Fashioning the Self volumes one and two
Amplifying Underrepresented Voices
Recent acquisitions and highlights in The Costume Institute Library.
Julie Lê
July 30
Magenta room with cradle
At Home in a Book
Nineteenth-century house albums from Watson Library and the Department of Drawings and Prints Library.
Lydia Aikenhead
July 16
Black and white image of a man yelling through cupped hands
Fair Game
A glimpse inside Watson’s acquisitions from the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.
Raymond Lei
June 18
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