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“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
Three centuries of light exposure caused a famous still life to fade. Here's how a team of conservators and curators brought it (digitally) back to life.
Gerrit Albertson
June 20, 2019
Putting Our Best Footwear Forward: Re-Discovering The Costume Institute's "Landmark" Shoe Collection
Assistant Archivist in Museum Archives Celia Hartmann discusses processing the records of the twentieth century shoe designer Bernice Shaftan.
Celia Hartmann
May 29, 2019
The story of a remarkable young woman and how her painting by Paul Klee escaped confiscation by the Nazis and came to The Met.
Mary Chan
April 9, 2019
Did you know that artwork by girls is in The Met collection? See nineteenth-century samplers and needlework pictures from The American Wing.
Catherine Stergar
March 12, 2019
Paintings Conservation Fellow Gerrit Albertson recounts the recent treatment of a rare Margareta Haverman work in The Met collection now on view in the exhibition In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met.
Gerrit Albertson
December 6, 2018
Dangerous Beauty in the Ancient World and the Age of #MeToo: An Interview with Curator Kiki Karoglou
In this interview, exhibition curator Kiki Karoglou shares provocative insights into the contemporary relevance of mythological hybrid beings and offers a behind-the-scenes look into the making of the exhibition.
Sumi Hansen
November 21, 2018
In this interview, author and curator Amelia Peck discusses the history of quilting in Gee's Bend, Alabama, and how these works of art have historically been misunderstood.
Rachel High
July 16, 2018