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Identity

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.
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Notes from Leadership

How We Collect: Research, Transparency, and Collaboration

Learn about The Met's collecting practices and provenance research.
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Identity

Women’s Work, Part 1

In celebration of Women’s History Month, a selection of contemporary women artists reflect on their art and share what inspires them most in the Museum.
Digital Premiere: Matthew Evan Taylor’s “Life Returns”

Music

Digital Premiere: Matthew Evan Taylor’s “Life Returns”

Listen to Matthew Evan Taylor’s “Life Returns”, a monumental work that encompasses bite-sized pieces of music, which explore African-American, South Asian, and Western European musical practices.

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Notes from Leadership

Building Tomorrow's Met

Bernd & Hilla Becher Virtual Opening

On View

Bernd & Hilla Becher Virtual Opening

Join Jeff Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, for a virtual tour of Bernd & Hilla Becher, a retrospective celebrating the renowned German artists, Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931–2007; 1934–2015), who changed the course of late twentieth-century photography.

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Art-Making

Art Work: Artists Working at The Met

Since 1935, The Met has held a biennial exhibition of artwork submitted by staff. This year, for the first time, the show is open to the public.
2022 Met Gala Red Carpet Arrivals

Fashion

2022 Met Gala Red Carpet Arrivals

Watch the red carpet arrivals from the 2022 Met Gala, held on May 2. This year's event celebrates the opening of the exhibition, In America: An Anthology of Fashion. 

Exhibition Preview—In America: An Anthology of Fashion

Fashion

Exhibition Preview—In America: An Anthology of Fashion

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.

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Notes from Leadership

Iris Cantor: A Legacy of Philanthropy

Met Trustee Iris Cantor speaks on her long history of giving to the Museum
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