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In this preface to the Obsession catalogue, exhibition curator Sabine Rewald writes about the "private pleasures" that drew Scofield Thayer to nudes by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Pablo Picasso.
Sabine Rewald
July 3, 2018
Assistant Curator Shanay Jhaveri writes about Ranjani Shettar's technique and how the artist's use of materials transforms her sculptures into lyrical illusions.
Shanay Jhaveri
June 19, 2018
Digital Editor Pac Pobric introduces a new Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History essay on the famed British furniture designer Thomas Chippendale.
Pac Pobric
June 12, 2018
Curator Joanne Pillsbury looks back at the recently closed Golden Kingdoms exhibition and meditates on the power of art to frame, and reframe, our knowledge of past cultures.
Joanne Pillsbury
June 7, 2018
Assistant Curator Adam Eaker invites readers to see The Met's five paintings by Johannes Vermeer in a new installation in gallery 630.
Adam Eaker
June 5, 2018
To commemorate Pride Month, Managing Editor Michael Cirigliano II takes a look at ten works from The Met collection by, or depicting, artists from the LGBT community.
Michael Cirigliano II
June 1, 2018
In this interview, Doug Eklund, curator of Before/On/After, speaks about the embrace of humor, failure as an aesthetic strategy, image-text combinations, and dogs in West Coast Conceptual art.
Will Fenstermaker
May 23, 2018
Conservator Lucretia Kargère discusses two twelfth-century sculptures in the Museum's collection that have been reunited at The Met Cloisters on the occasion of Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.
Lucretia Kargère
May 22, 2018
Assistant Curator James Doyle highlights luxury goods featured in Golden Kingdoms that were used in ritual offerings made to the Sacred Cenote at Chichén Itzá.
James Doyle
May 21, 2018
Curator Elizabeth Kornhauser looks at Thomas Cole's depictions of clouds—an integral part of a landscape—and the influence he took from J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, and others.
Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser
May 16, 2018