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Read articles and the latest news about The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Libraries' collections, activities, and research related to the history of art.

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Birding at The Met: A Selection of Drawings and Prints

Learn how birds have served as a source of endless inspiration for artists from the 16th century through the present.
Watson Library stacks

More than a Museum

Discovering a library within a museum.
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Celebrating International Zine Month at Watson Library

Delving into the collection
Cover of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-fi and Fantasy Culture

Afrofuturism in the Stacks

Watson Library’s collection of Afrofuturist books
Headshot images of the artists from Godzilla

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in Watson Library

Highlighting the works of Godzilla, an Asian American arts network

Listen to Charmaine A. Nelson's Keynote at The Met.

Examine the representation of beauty in depictions of the Black figure in nineteenth-century Western art.

Examine how liberty has been represented and misrepresented in Western art through a series of presentations.

Explore the complexities that arise through acts of witnessing and representing slavery.

NEH grant participants group photo in the reading room

Expanding the Collection

A project to enhance Watson's holdings of works by and about Indigenous American, Hispanic American/Latinx, and Asian American/Pacific Islander artists
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