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Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty

May 5–July 16, 2023

The Costume Institute’s spring 2023 exhibition will examine the work of Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019). Focusing on the designer’s stylistic vocabulary as expressed in aesthetic themes that appear time and again in his fashions from the 1950s to his fi…

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Still Life with Grapes and a Bird: A Remembrance of Things Past

January 9, 2017

By Keith Christiansen

Curator Keith Christiansen discusses a recently acquired work by Crevalcore that is regarded as among the earliest extant independent still lifes in European painting.

Essay

Resources: Preventive Care and Handling

February 12, 2021

Resources and guidelines on the preventive care and handling of photographs, bound volumes, and time-based media.

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A Time of Crisis

This special issue of the Bulletin reflects on some of the crises gripping our world in the present moment, including the catastrophic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the continuing tragedy of racial injustice. Voices from The Metropolitan Museum of Art present their personal perspectives on issues and challenges facing us all while connecting these difficult times to art, artists, and the Museum’s history. Conceived and written during the Museum’s unprecedented closure, this compelling publication reflects on art’s power to inspire, comfort, and heal.

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Egyptian Tombs: Life Along the Nile

October 1, 2004

By Catharine H. Roehrig

Tombs provide us with invaluable information about the lives of the ancient Egyptians.

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Collections Care for Organic Objects

June 11, 2020

The Preventive Conservation Science Laboratory is developing a new test to assess materials used in the storage, display, and transport of organic objects.

editorial

A Day in the Life of Visitor Services

February 15, 2011

By Claire Bowman

Here at the Met, no two days are alike, especially in my job as a member of the Visitor Services staff. Each new person who comes into the Museum has new questions. Many visitors feel overwhelmed by the immensity of the Museum's collections, and may not know quite where to begin.

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Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty

This investigation into Karl Lagerfeld’s (1933–2019) artistry explores his extraordinary sixty-five-year career, from the designs for Chloé and Fendi in the 1960s and 1970s to his celebrated leadership in the 1980s and beyond at Chanel and his own label. Inspired by the “line of beauty” theorized by eighteenth-century English painter William Hogarth, this dazzling publication pursues the straight and serpentine “lines” and their intersections in Lagerfeld’s work as a means of understanding his unique creative process.