Women’s History | Perspectives | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Detail of Mrinalini Mukherjee’s fibre red and purple sculpture depicting unfurling forms that resemble female genitalia.

Museums Without Men: Mrinalini Mukherjee

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Katy Hessel and Brinda Kumar March 8

Detail of a quilt by Emma Civey Stahl depicting various floral designs and scenes of life during the Civil War in square and circular vignettes.

Museums Without Men: Emma Civey Stahl

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Katy Hessel and Amelia Peck March 8

Katy Hessel stands in the sunlit Greek and Roman galleries at The Met Museum.

Museums Without Men at The Met

Traverse the Museum’s galleries highlighting remarkable achievements by women artists.

Katy Hessel March 8

Two marble busts of Native American figures, Minnehaha and Hiawatha.

Museums Without Men: Edmonia Lewis

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Katy Hessel and Lisa E. Farrington March 8

Detail of Rosa Bonheur’s painting titled “The Horse Fair” featuring a group of lively horses at an outdoor market in Paris.

Museums Without Men: Rosa Bonheur

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Katy Hessel March 8

Detail of Wangechi Mutu’s bronze sculpture of a seated female figure; the entire figure is decorated in draped coils and the mouth is shaped like a flat polished disk.

Museums Without Men: Wangechi Mutu

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Katy Hessel, Wangechi Mutu, and Brinda Kumar March 8

Defying Gravity

Learn about the transformative collaboration between the designer Zelda Wynn Valdes and the entertainer Joyce Bryant.

Jim Byers March 7

Abstraction

This painting was different from the work I knew: it seemed somehow vaster than the landscapes, deader than the bones.

Maggie Millner March 1

Multi object sculpture, outside of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

To Provoke and Transgress

The writer Manijeh Moradian reflects on the unruly forms of Nairy Baghramian's facade commission.

Manijeh Moradian Dec 22, 2023

Painting that depicts six women pursuing the arts of painting, sculpture and drawing in a skylit studio with a seventh student entering the space with a portfolio in hand

Women in the Studio

Louis Lang’s Art Students presents an intriguing window into the professionalization of women’s art education in the United States during the nineteenth century.

Thayer Tolles and Abigail Sullivan Oct 2, 2023