Curator Jayson Dobney investigates the date Antonio Stradivari produced "The Antonius" violin, one of the famed luthier's instruments in The Met collection.

Curator Jayson Dobney celebrates the 260th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by sharing a recording of one of the composer's violin sonatas performed on historic instruments from The Met collection.

The Wikimedia Foundation's Executive Director Katherine Maher and The Met's Chief Digital Officer Loic Tallon discuss how the partnership between these two institutions is connecting audiences to open knowledge, ideas, and creativity on a global scale.

Administrator Christina Alphonso explains how wattle fences are used at The Cloisters and explores medieval woodlands management practices.

Associate Curator Jayson Dobney explores the centuries-long history of The Met's "Gould" violin, an instrument gifted to the Museum by George Gould in 1955.

Administrator Christina Alphonso discusses the medicinal and magical properties of the willow in history.

Metadata and Collections Librarian William Blueher examines how Watson Library's Digital Collections achieved more than one million pageviews this year.

Celebrated Argentinian artist Adrián Villar Rojas is known for his site-specific sculptural installations. For The Theater of Disappearance, the artist mines The Met’s collection, drawing on the five thousand years of world history within its galleries, to create an elaborate ahistorical work. Set atop the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, Villar Rojas’s installation transforms the space into a performative diorama, where banquet tables occupy an oversize black-and-white checkerboard floor punctuated by sculptures that fuse together human figures and artifacts found within the museum. The resulting juxtapositions put forth a radical reinterpretation of museum practices. This illustrated book is the fifth edition in a series that documents and contextualizes The Met’s annual rooftop commissions. The introductory essay by Beatrice Galilee explores the conceptual framework that informs Villar Rojas’s remarkable commission as well as his interventions around the world. While exploring the Museum, Villar Rojas took thousands of photographs of objects and moments of interest. A selection of these images is featured here alongside the artist’s commentary, offering a unique visual diary of Villar Rojas’s thought process as he developed this arresting installation.

In honor of World Teachers' Day on October 5, the Teen Blog presents a post by guest author Kendra—an educator and recent graduate intern in the Education Department—about her favorite work in the Museum's collection.

The Metropolitan Museum Journal is issued annually and publishes original research on works of art in the Museum’s collection. Highlights of volume 54 include conservators’ discoveries of Renaissance sculptor Andrea della Robbia’s workshop techniques; a new reading of lavishly dressed women on tile panels from 17th-century Iran; and John Singer Sargent’s decisive role in choosing his socialite sitters’ fashionable attire.