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Celebrate Black History Month with these 5 videos on Black art, culture, and history—plus more from The Met collection.
Lela Jenkins
February 16, 2021
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On February 7, 1963, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa made her public debut at The Met.
January 8, 2021
In a spectacularly organized campaign, The Met transported thousands of irreplaceable artworks out of New York City for safekeeping during World War II. Although this initiative has become a largely forgotten part of the Museum’s wartime history, Met staff were responsible for one of the most complex art evacuations in American history.
Christine E. Brennan
January 6, 2021
Following The Met’s temporary closure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, staff began researching how the Museum had responded to other global crises that took place during its 150-year history.
Allison Rudnick and James Moske
December 24, 2020
On March 13, 2020, just one month shy of its 150th anniversary, The Metropolitan Museum of Art closed to the public for what would become an unprecedented period of over five months. As COVID-19 incited a state of crisis in New York City and the world at large, the Museum pivoted to ensure the safety of its community, collections, and buildings. But the historic moment of the pandemic stimulated interest in past precedents.
Laura D. Corey and Donald J. La Rocca
December 24, 2020
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A self-proclaimed “collector of souls,” the American painter Alice Neel is known today for her powerful, psychologically rich portraiture.
December 18, 2020
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Flowers are more than merely decorative. People throughout time have used them as storytelling devices.
December 4, 2020
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The painter Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun once wrote of the 18th century, “Women reigned then; the Revolution dethroned them.”
November 13, 2020
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Since the 1970s, the artist Charles Simonds has created enigmatic dwellings for an imaginary civilization of “Little People.”
October 23, 2020
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In this short feature, produced to accompany a 1993 LACMA exhibition of Jacob Lawrence’s series on Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, hear from the artist and those who knew him well.
October 9, 2020