Guest blogger Deborah Check Reeves reflects on the 1994 donation by President Bill Clinton of an L.A. Sax Company Presidential Model saxophone, currently on view in Celebrating Sax: Instruments and Innovation, to the National Music Museum.
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.
Explore a site-specific interaction of Taiwanese-American artist Lee Mingwei's durational work, OUR LABYRINTH with new contributions by legendary American dancer and choreographer Bill T. Jones.
Aliza Sena, associate coordinator for Digital Learning, invites you to Dine and Draw at The Met and shares a selection of drawings made by kids from around the world.
By Medill Higgins Harvey, Moira Gallagher, and Anne Grady
An ancient Japanese metalworking technique, translated to mean wood eye or wood grain, by which layers of contrasting colored metals are fused together with heat and pressure and worked to produce a patterned mixed-metal laminate.
