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Grid of six artworks spanning 5,000 years of art history
January 24, 2013
Unfinished by Andrea Bayer
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"I think his age liberated him and that he was working on it for himself."
Andrea Bayer
May 1, 2013
Image of the artist cecily brown in front of an abstraction.
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Join artist Cecily Brown and Met curator Adam Eaker for a conversation about Brown’s engagement with art history, influences from The Met collection, and her own singular artistic practice.
Adam Eaker
June 25, 2023
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Join curator Adam Eaker and conservator Dorothy Mahon as they discuss the restoration of Rembrandt’s Artistotle with a Bust of Homer, 1653, now on view in the renovated and reinstalled European Paintings galleries at The Met, Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800.
July 31, 2024
Detail image of the volute-krater that shows the divine couple seated between two columns, flanked by a priestess and figures playing instruments.
The magnificent volute-krater on loan from Ferrara.
Chiara Pizzirani and Delphine Tonglet
July 30, 2024
Fantasy by Femke Speelberg
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"That’s what I love about works on paper: the only restriction is your own genius."
Femke Speelberg
July 31, 2013
Woman sitting, black and white shading. She looks to be in distress.

A selection of the artist's prints candidly portrays the experience of women during periods of political oppression.

Jennifer Farrell
December 9, 2024
Playing from Memory by Eric Kjellgren
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"The ancestors, in a sense, are of the human world, watch over human activities, but are also connected with the larger workings of the cosmos."
Eric Kjellgren
May 8, 2013
Idolized by Diana Craig Patch
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"This piece spoke to me when I realized, you don't need a single written word, three thousand years later, we can understand the same language."
Diana Craig Patch
September 10, 2013
A man with a cartoonish face is laden with objects, with a critical poem written beneath him.
They're not always love notes. Explore the history of the penny dreadful.
Nancy Rosin
February 14, 2024