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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
Artist Ed Ruscha and writer Tom McCarthy discuss Thomas Cole's influence on Ruscha's art in these excerpts from a recent conversation at The Met.
Shannon Vittoria
May 10, 2018
Assistant Curator Stephanie Herdrich writes about the role that copying Italian art played in the young artist's development, highlighting a scrapbook in The Met collection.
Stephanie L. Herdrich
May 10, 2018
Conservator Christine Giuntini discusses objects from Golden Kingdoms: Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas that reveal the intrinsic beauty of featherwork and the significant ritual role of feathered textiles in Precolumbian culture.
Christine Giuntini
May 3, 2018
Curator Soyoung Lee highlights two paintings on view in Diamond Mountains by Shin Jangshik, whose panoramic painting of the mountains served as a backdrop at the recent Korean leaders summit.
Soyoung Lee
April 30, 2018
Publishing and Marketing Assistant Rachel High sits down with curator emerita Colta Ives to discuss the transformation of Paris during the nineteenth century into a city of tree-lined boulevards and public parks.
Rachel High
April 18, 2018