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Exhibition Tour—The American Wing at 100

December 20, 2024

By Sylvia Yount, Medill Higgins Harvey, Adrienne Spinozzi, Amelia Peck, Alyce Perry Englund, Stephanie L. Herdrich, Thayer Tolles, Patricia Marroquin Norby, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, and Max Hollein

Join curators Sylvia Yount, Medill Higgins Harvey, Adrienne Spinozzi, Amelia Peck, Alyce Perry Englund, Stephanie L. Herdrich, Thayer Tolles, Patricia Marroquin Norby, and Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen along with Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director and CEO as the American Wing celebrates its 100th anniversary with a reinstallation of its extensive collection of art and design.

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Masterworks Across Time and Place: Native American Art and a Delacroix Drawing on MetCollects

November 13, 2018

By Dana Miller

Production Editor Dana Miller introduces two new MetCollects episodes that coincide with three exhibitions at The Met Fifth Avenue.

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Reinstalling Art of Native America: Three Perspectives

June 25, 2021

By Cristina Balloffet Carr, Sylvia Yount, Marie Watt, and Alexandra Barlow

Explore Dream Catcher by Marie Watt (Seneca Nation), featured in the exhibition Art of Native America.

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Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents Virtual Opening

April 21, 2022

By Stephanie L. Herdrich and Sylvia Yount

Join curators Stephanie Herdrich and Sylvia Yount for a virtual tour of Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents, which reconsiders Homer’s work through the lens of conflict, a theme that crosses his prolific career.

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“Harlem on Whose Mind?”: The Met and Civil Rights

February 17, 2021

By Kelly Baum, Maricelle Robles, and Sylvia Yount

Kelly Baum, Maricelle Robles, and Sylvia Yount recount and reflect on the complicated legacy of the 1969 Met exhibition Harlem on My Mind.

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Redefining American Art: Native American Art in The American Wing

February 21, 2017

By Sylvia Yount

Curator Sylvia Yount details three extraordinary Native American artworks from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection that were recently installed in The American Wing.

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Groundbreaking Curatorial Collaborations: Introducing the 2018–19 Season of MetLiveArts

May 9, 2018

By Limor Tomer

Limor Tomer announces the new season of MetLiveArts programming, which will feature several collaborations with curatorial departments across the Museum and residencies by Julia Bullock and Sonnambula.

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The Ashcan School, The Eight, and the New York Art World

May 26, 2015

By Sylvia Yount

Sylvia Yount, Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of The American Wing, announces a new installation of works by artists from the Ashcan School now on view in gallery 772.

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Now on View: Drawings by Bill Traylor, Pioneer of Outsider Art, in The American Wing

March 13, 2015

By Sylvia Yount

Sylvia Yount, Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of The American Wing, announces a new installation of works from the late 1930s by Bill Traylor, the pioneer of so-called outsider art.

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In Pursuit of Beauty: 30 Years of Collecting the American Aesthetic Movement

March 24, 2017

By Moira Gallagher

Research Assistant Moira Gallagher celebrates the legacy and 30th anniversary of In Pursuit of Beauty, a landmark exhibition on the Aesthetic movement in America, at The Met.