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For Trota: Practitioner of Women's Health in the Middle Ages

September 7, 2017

By Carly Still

Assistant horticulturist Carly Still examines medieval healthcare and herbs grown at The Met Cloisters.
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Real and Magical—diane arbus: in the beginning with Jeff L. Rosenheim and Karan Rinaldo

November 7, 2016

By Rachel High

Publishing and Marketing Assistant Rachel High discusses the work of Diane Arbus and the creation of the exhibition catalogue diane arbus: in the beginning with the book's authors, Jeff Rosenheim and Karan Rinaldo.
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Curator Conversation: Exploring Contemporary Aboriginal Art with Maia Nuku

October 25, 2017

By Michael Cirigliano II

Managing Editor Michael Cirigliano talks with Associate Curator Maia Nuku about the art-making traditions explored in the exhibition On Country: Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan-Levi Gift.
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From Archimedes to Zansz: Inventor Souvenir Cards from the Burdick Collection

November 2, 2015

By Allison Rudnick

Assistant Curator Allison Rudnick highlights the World's Inventors series of souvenir cards produced by Allen & Ginter Cigarettes during the 1880s.
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Exhibition Tour—Superfine: Tailoring Black Style

May 22, 2025

By Monica L. Miller and Andrew Bolton

The Costume Institute’s spring 2025 exhibition presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style over three hundred years through the concept of dandyism.
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Making a Scene in Paris in the Age of Louis XIV

July 15, 2014

By Keith Christiansen

Keith Christiansen, John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of the Department of European Paintings, introduces Charles Le Brun's monumental portrait of Everhard Jabach and his family.
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The Met as a Mirror: Peter Hristoff Reflects on His Residency

July 5, 2016

By Peter Hristoff

In his final blog post as artist in residence, Peter Hristoff contemplates why certain artworks captivate viewers and what those works say about ourselves as humankind.
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Featured Publication: Photography and the American Civil War

April 30, 2013

By Nadja Hansen and Hilary Becker

Nadja Hansen and Hilary Becker introduce the Photography and the American Civil War exhibition catalogue.
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Glimpses of Joy and Sorrow in Chen Hongshou's Calligraphy Album

May 14, 2014

By Shi-yee Liu

Assistant Research Curator Shi-yee Liu outlines the technique and emotional content found in a calligraphy album by Chen Hongshou currently featured in the exhibition Out of Character.
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A New Web Feature: One Met. Many Worlds.

June 11, 2014

By Thomas P. Campbell

Director Thomas P. Campbell introduces the Museum's newest web feature, One Met. Many Worlds.
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Japanese Illustrated Books

Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden)

...numerous masterpieces of woodblock printing, many of which are nearly impossible to find in such fine condition today...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Mishneh Torah

Master of the Barbo Missal

"...The Met takes a major step in presenting masterpieces of Judaica..."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Électricité

Man Ray

This remarkably seductive album of photogravures is an exquisite example of his legacy as America's greatest Surrealist photographer...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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A Wooded River Landscape with a Church and Figures

Hendrick Avercamp

"...His finished drawings are much rarer, and the present one is among his best of an imaginary landscape..."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Nineteenth-Century Exhibition Pistols

Gilles Michel Louis Moutier-Le Page

...these very pistols spectacularly confirmed that the French were then unsurpassed in their mastery of the gunmaker's art...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Small Trades

Irving Penn

"The resulting portraits–landmarks in the history of twentieth century photography–are a brilliant update of some 300 years’ interest by artists in producing pictures of small tradesmen, or petit métiers."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Saint Sebastian

Master of the Furies

When this compelling, transformative statuette of Saint Sebastian became available, it was an opportunity not to be missed, as the Museum has nothing comparable...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Porphyry vessel with bearded masks



This is one of the most elegant and best-preserved porphyry vessels to have survived from classical antiquity...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Brooch with Carved Emeralds and Sapphires

Cartier

The journey of the emerald in this brooch from Colombia, where it originated in its natural state, to seventeenth-century India and back to New York underscores the abiding and universal attraction of great gems.

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
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Ceremonial ewer



With the daring amalgamation of the whimsical, exotic, and macabre, the sculptural details on this ewer brilliantly show off the distinctive Portuguese interpretation of Renaissance style.

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.