A team of conservators and scientists have been investigating a selection of West African dance crests that will soon be on display.

Associate Museum Educator Emma Wegner recalls Chess Day at The Met Cloisters.

Cartoonist Roz Chast reflects on Italian Renaissance painting in this episode of The Artist Project.

"Can an invention remain new?": Alisa LaGamma on the tsesah crest.

Chase was eclectic, borrowing with pride and pleasure from many international styles, past and present.

Listen to sculptor Robert Laurent (1890–1970) tell his story of emigrating from Brittany, France to New York City in the early twentieth century.

Data about The Met collection, including over 492,000 images of public-domain artworks, available for free and unrestricted use.

PUNK: Chaos to Couture considers the vitality of the punk aesthetic and its impact on high fashion, from the do-it-yourself ethos of punk's originators to the perfection defined by its couture descendants. "Punk has had an incendiary influence on fashion. Although punk's democracy stands in opposition to fashion's autocracy, designers continue to appropriate punk's visual vocabulary to capture its youthful rebelliousness and aggressive forcefulness." Andrew Bolton "Punk was like nothing anybody had seen before, like nothing. Punk was fearless. Utterly fearless."John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) "Punk was about succeeding without any skills except honesty. Honesty isn't easy though. That's where the art, unironically, comes in." Richard Hell "The look was at once decadent and puritan: a deliberate confusion of symbols, a living collage that served as both symptom and solution, as both windup and warning." Jon Savage