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Detail of the pamphlet for the Act Up Art Box with the text "A limited edition box of objects"
A Short History of the ACT UP Art Box
"ACT UP felt like a collision of creativity, political fervor, and justifiable anger..."
Peter Antony
June 7, 2023
Painting by Phillip Guston of a one-eyed person laying in bed smoking a cigarette with a clock in the background.
Philip Guston at The Met
Musa Guston Mayer reflects on her father's art and its legacy.
Musa Guston Mayer
May 25, 2023
The artist Lauren Halsey in colorful clothing sitting before her Roof Garden Commission, a giant Egyptian-inspired temple.
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Meet the Artist—Lauren Halsey: The Roof Garden Commission
Go behind the scenes with artist Lauren Halsey, who discusses the inspiration and making of The Met’s 2023 Roof Garden Commission.
May 10, 2023
Four musicians singing on a stage
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Shawn E. Okpebholo: “four martins – a dirge” from Songs in Flight
Composer Shawn Okpebholo and Duke University professor Dr. Tsitsi Ella Jaji bring individual stories to life through song.
January 13, 2023
Woman playing the banjo on a stage
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Giddens: At the Purchaser’s Option / Okpebholo: “oh freedom” from Songs in Flight
Embark on a musical journey with Rhiannon Giddens and Shawn E. Okpebholo.
January 13, 2023
Images of trumpeters.
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The Black Presence in Tudor England
Learn more about John Blanke, a trumpeter who performed at the coronation of Henry VIII, and other documented free Black residents of Tudor England.
January 6, 2023
The curators Jeff Rosenheim and Thelma Golden stand before a series of photographs by the renowned Harlem Renaissance photographer James Van Der Zee.
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The James Van Der Zee Archive
James Van Der Zee, the world-renowned chronicler of Black life in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance and for decades thereafter, was a virtuoso portraitist and one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century.
December 13, 2022
The Met Fifth facade
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Meet the Artist—Hew Locke: Gilt
Go behind the scenes with artist Hew Locke
September 29, 2022
Artist Miguel Luciano and a woman wearing red pants carrying the Zemí Cohoba stand through the streets of El Barrio
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Miguel Luciano’s Cemí-Libre | Civic Practice Partnership, 2017–2021
Celebrate Taíno culture, the legacy of the Young Lords, and the El Barrio community with Miguel Luciano
June 28, 2022
Sculpture of a man against a green backdrop
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Symposium—Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, Session 2
Examine how liberty has been represented and misrepresented in Western art through a series of presentations.
April 28, 2022