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“I wanted a persona to really reflect our point of view at the time that colonial policies were beginning.”
Kent Monkman
December 23, 2019
The celebrated Cree artist arrives at The Met—along with his gender-bending, time-travelling, shape-shifting alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle.
Randall Griffey
December 17, 2019
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Poet Wendy S. Walters confronts the power dynamics at play in creating and viewing Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved!
December 13, 2019
“I’ve chosen to stick with the subject of the female body as a platform for what we feel about ourselves as humans.”
Wangechi Mutu
November 11, 2019
Mutu muses on her sculptures’ relationship to migrancy and science fiction.
Wangechi Mutu
October 30, 2019
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Mutu inaugurates The Met’s annual facade commission with The NewOnes, will free Us.
Wangechi Mutu
September 13, 2019
Contemporary Native artists and historians respond to 18th- and 19th-century Euro-American representations of Indigenous subjects in the American Wing’s collection.
September 11, 2019
How James Rorimer, future director of The Met, visited a fairy-tale castle in Germany and discovered a trove of paperwork documenting Nazi art looting in World War II.
James Moske
June 3, 2019
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Abigail Raport, Research Associate for Judaica, pauses to commemorate human loss with a photograph by Judith Glickman Lauder.
Abigail Rapoport
January 25, 2019
A recent addition to The Met collection, Kara Walker's Resurrection Story with Patrons engages contemporary reports of racial violence in the United States and the imagery, histories, and monuments of Christian martyrdom.
Jennifer Farrell
January 15, 2019