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Detail of a vibrant quilt made up of squares with narrow, rectangular strips of alternating colors.
Audio
Immaterial: Blankets and Quilts
Threads of identity.
July 16
Painting of a group of men and women all sitting around together eating.
Video
Look Again: European Paintings—The Origins of Landscape
Join curators Anna-Claire Stinebring and Joanna Seidenstein for a closer look at early Renaissance landscape painting in the newly renovated and reinstalled European Paintings galleries at The Met, Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800.
July 10
Collage of three images black and white one of a outline of a black face, the third a black background with white text, and the last a painting depictions of a party.
Video
The Leonard A. Lauder Distinguished Scholar Lecture—Blackbeats: Cubism Reimagined
Join scholar Richard J. Powell as he rethinks the art of Cubism through the historical and aesthetic lens of African American art. Artists such as Dudley Murphy, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, Mickalene Thomas, and Nina Chanel Abney use angular and fractured forms that resonate with the cultural effects of ragtime, jazz, hip-hop, and other Black performing arts traditions.
Richard J. Powell
July 10
South-facing view of The Met exterior steps from the 5th Ave plaza. Sunlight hits the building facade, and the steps bustle with seated and standing visitors.
Audio
Immaterial: Space, Part 2
Behind the scenes at The Met.
July 2
Two women standing standing together in a low lit room.
Video
Exhibition Tour—Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co.
Join exhibition curator Medill Higgins Harvey, special guests, curators Deniz Beyazit and Monika Bincsik, on a tour of the exhibition Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co
Medill Higgins Harvey
June 20
Sky with puffy blue and white clouds. A light blue sky peeks through the top right corner of the image.
Audio
Immaterial: Space, Part 1
Giving form to a feeling.
June 18
Traditional Indian Paining of gray elephtant.
Elephant Soul, Indian Brush
Take a closer look at the Asian elephant through the eyes of Indian court painters
Navina Najat Haidar
June 14
A woman in a multicolored dress is seated on a yellow couch, her back to the viewer. In the background at right is a black and white portrait of a mother holding a baby; at left is the room's doorway. The wallpaper and floor is characterized by whimsical and geometric designs, including portraits as part of the wallpaper.
How to Read Portraits

Kathryn Calley Galitz takes a deep dive into
portraiture from Ancient Roman coins to Instagram selfies.

Rachel High
June 6
Traditional Indian Paining of gray elephtant.
Jumbo in Jewels
Take a closer look at depictions of elephants across Howard Hodgkin’s collection of Indian court painting
Navina Najat Haidar
June 5
Detail of Adam's face.
Audio
Immaterial: Stone
Making and breaking legacies.
June 4