Collections Management Assistant Jane R. Becker contemplates the unique visual perspective presented in Gustave Caillebotte's Chrysanthemums in the Garden at Petit-Gennevilliers.

Keith Christiansen invites readers to view a selection of the Museum's newly acquired paintings now on view in European Paintings: Recent Acquisitions 2015–16.

Teen Advisory Group Members Angeles and Jill discuss the brightly colored feathers used to make the panels on view in the exhibition Feathered Walls: Hangings from Ancient Peru.

MediaLab Intern Joselyn McDonald reveals the inspiration behind and process of creating her sound and video art installation, FEMET.

Senior Library Associate Patrick J. Raftery Jr. explores Thomas J. Watson Library's collection of books on LGBTQ+ art and artists.

Femke Speelberg, assistant curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints, visits the Eternal City as depicted by Antonio Tempesta (1555–1630).

Former MediaLab Intern Matt Felsen describes how he worked with Former MediaLab Intern Maria Paula Saba and Chester Dale Fellow Erin Peters to restore color on The Temple of Dendur in their project Color The Temple.

Museum Educator Leslie Bussis Tait lists a few highlights from this summer's college interns at The Cloisters' special Gallery Talks.

Assistant Museum Librarian for Reader Services Kamaria Hatcher discusses the history of Nolen Library.

Teen Advisory Group Member Jimmy writes about artistic choices in Portrait of a Young Man by Jacometto Veneziano.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.