On View

Relating to objects currently on view at The Met.

Close up shot of Archer's head.

The Giants of Mont’e Prama

Learn about the discovery and meaning of these ancient stone figures from Sardinia.
A pair of black men with feathers decorating their heads and body next to a cup covered with a lid

The Linsky Project: Reinterpreting Porcelain Figures

New interpretive labels help visitors navigate the role of the decorative arts in negotiating race, labor, colonialism, and global commerce.

The Paradox of the Fool

Unpack the peculiar ways the jester challenged the medieval social order

Georgia O'Keeffe's painting, "From the Faraway, Nearby" with an imaginary mule deer skull and antlers levitating over a rather generalized desert landscape

Revisiting “O’Keeffe Country”

Two Indigenous scholars discuss what—and who—the artist omits in her depiction of New Mexico

Hear from a scholar whose recent discoveries in British archives have transformed our understanding of these artists and their royal sitters.

Join curators Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker to explore The Tudors, which traces the transformation of the arts in Tudor England through more than 100 objects.

Detail of the Astronomicum Caesareum

This most sumptuous of all Renaissance instructive manuals explained the use of the astrolabe and other instruments used for computing planetary positions

Join co-curators Adrienne Spinozzi, Ethan Lasser, and Jason Young for a virtual tour of Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina.

Reimagining Peruvian Portraiture with Ana de Orbegoso

Learn how the artist updates ancient Andean aesthetics to reflect the world today.
The Met’s Cristofori Piano

Inventing the Piano

How Cristofori’s invention gave a new voice to the harpsichord
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