The Artist Project
What artists see when they look at The Met
About
Ever since it was founded in 1870, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been a place where artists come to gain inspiration from works of art from their own time and place, and also from across time and cultures.
The Artist Project is an online series in which we give artists an opportunity to respond to our encyclopedic collection.
From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met. Their unique and passionate ways of seeing and experiencing art encourage all museum visitors to look in a personal way.
Over the course of six seasons, The Artist Project shares the perspectives of one hundred and twenty artists with the public, telling us what they see when they look at The Met.
Episodes
![Andrea Bowers on Howardena Pindell](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/4ea8b636c30a0bc085dfd67ff1d4ce7f0af37262-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Barry X Ball on an Egyptian fragment of a queen’s face](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/faceee762e8210bc227538cc31100d30ba1b8677-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Carolee Schneemann on Cycladic female figures](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/3e2de05c9b4534e5e4dc3126aba26d2cce18feec-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Catherine Opie on the Louis XIV bedroom](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/7243f4b16cc8753031b7996e97908bc40607ae03-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Cecily Brown on medieval sculptures of the Madonna and Child](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/22242ffcaad5caa95e2181d3f8dd4c8dd9a57a66-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Eric Fischal on Max Beckmann's "Beginning"](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/7abe461d846444ce214e23c6f406d5103b4303f1-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Fred Tomaselli on "Guru Dragpo"](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/036f0f2d1bb020bb93f70a878b83147c7371bb51-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Jacob El Hanani on the "Mishneh Torah," by Master of the Barbo Missal](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/493e6b29faa2e73b2a4f3fc9c7bc74d237db5434-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Jeff Koons on Roman sculpture](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/5658e9e7a021c11822f08e9f0060d8317bc172b0-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Joan Snyder on Florine Stettheimer's "Cathedrals" paintings](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/2337a294b0ec551a9edec2e1385084dca3132efe-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Krishna Reddy on Henry Moore](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/01e576cc6fc66d1994e63265cf70c2021f4542e3-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Lin Tianmiao on Alex Katz's "Black and Brown Blouse"](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/89ae073a3f9b35eded7a37dd45d8a80bc7667d42-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Mary Weatherford on Goya's "Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga"](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/e44dd13d2ce96a9b85f81614bdb97e907bf2f182-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Nan Goldin on Julia Margaret Cameron](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/d612bbddef59e03564c0cd2bc8a55de75c9b1d85-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Petah Coyne on a Japanese outer robe with Mount Hōrai](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/1fc20153270d96fe8bdae93e0be18b0600011f68-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Rashid Rana on Umberto Boccioni's "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space"](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/7a0a295b49e99f01967f93fbec8c44666a79ffc5-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Suzan Frecon on Duccio di Buoninsegna's "Madonna and Child"](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/fc64cd550bff545cfa88c361dbf78e2755780c2d-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
![William Wegman on Walker Evans's postcard collection](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/85b6f1e456dbe99efe36fc6b765f5fb6d574a358-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
![Zhang Xiaogang on El Greco's "The Vision of Saint John"](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/cctd4ker/production/deb46d65b04ad957b6c8af9ef6e6b2f44f44f346-1920x1080.jpg?w=3840&q=75&fit=clip&auto=format)
About Season 6
Twenty artists share their perspectives on works of art at The Met
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