Curator Perrin Stein profiles Marguerite Gérard—a female artist in pre-revolutionary France who studied with her notable brother-in-law, Jean Honoré Fragonard.
The rich sculptural, architectural, and textile traditions of the Toba Batak in northern Sumatra have served, for generations, as potent tools for harnessing spiritual power that was central to religious and social life before Christianity was introduced in the nineteenth century.
Although today we think of bathing as a private activity, the public bath, or hammam, was a vital social institution in any Middle Eastern city for centuries before the advent of modern plumbing.
Over the past four months, I have been writing posts and responding to comments on a blog dedicated to the special exhibition American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915. The exhibition closed last Sunday, but both the blog and a special feature will remain online for those who'd like to revisit the more than one hundred iconic paintings that were included in galleries.
We are thrilled to welcome our visitors back to The Met after more than five long months of closure. Thanks to the hard work of our dedicated staff, the Museum is ready to reopen to the public.
