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Recent Acquisitions

Learn about some of the artworks that have recently entered The Met Collection.

Installation view of Ranjani Shettar's Seven ponds and a few raindrops at The Met

Ranjani Shettar and the Poetics of Materials

Assistant Curator Shanay Jhaveri writes about Ranjani Shettar's technique and how the artist's use of materials transforms her sculptures into lyrical illusions.

Close up view of the face of an Olmec kneeling figure

Now on MetCollects: Mysteries of an Ancient Olmec Kneeling Figure

Production Editor Dana Miller introduces a new episode of MetCollects that takes an in-depth look at an ancient Olmec kneeling figure new to the Museum's collection.

Details of Max Beckmann's painting "The Old Actress" and a winged gilded caryatid from a pier table by Charles-Honoré Lannuier

Now on MetCollects: How Does a Foreigner Define America?

Production Editor Dana Miller introduces two new episodes of MetCollects that take an in-depth look at works by immigrants that came to America more than a century apart.

The Story of MetCollects: How New Acquisitions Debut at The Met

In celebration of the fiftieth episode of MetCollects, Video Editor Sarah Cowan and Production Editor Dana Miller discuss how the online series began and take a look at what's to come next.

A Bearded Man, a Water Bird, and a Divine Monkey: Recent Gifts of Mesoamerican Art

Assistant Curator James Doyle introduces readers to three masterworks of ancient Mesoamerican art recently gifted to The Met.

"Can an invention remain new?": Alisa LaGamma on the tsesah crest.

"How does a woman represent herself?" Joseph Scheier-Dolberg on Cao Zhenxiu and Gai Qi's Famous Women album.

"What makes an instrument an individual?" Anthony Wilson plays John Monteleone's "Four Seasons" guitars.

“Who controls time?” Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide on a longcase clock by Ferdinand Berthoud and Balthazar Lieutaud.

“How does an outsider get in?” Kerry James Marshall on his painting, Untitled (Studio)

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