Laura Mina, associate conservator in The Met's Costume Institute, offers a close look at an 18th-century court suit.

Curator Tim Husband weighs in on suit symbols and hierarchies in early European playing cards.

Curators Randall Griffey and Kelly Baum reflect on the life of Hungarian born artist Judit Reigl (1945–2020) and her masterpiece *Guano (Menhir)*.

Violinist Johnny Gandelsman performs Bach’s Cello Suite No. 4 as part of a weeklong residency at The Met Cloisters.

Rather than focusing on religious law, theology, philosophy and other written proscriptions, Sufis understand and experience God by turning inward and experiencing the divine within themselves.

Curator Soyoung Lee highlights two paintings on view in Diamond Mountains by Shin Jangshik, whose panoramic painting of the mountains served as a backdrop at the recent Korean leaders summit.

Violinist Johnny Gandelsman performs Bach’s Cello Suite No. 6 as part of a weeklong residency at The Met Cloisters.

Violinist Johnny Gandelsman performs Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 as part of a weeklong residency at The Met Cloisters.

Violinist Johnny Gandelsman performs Bach’s Cello Suite No. 2 as part of a weeklong residency at The Met Cloisters.

Violinist Johnny Gandelsman performs Bach’s Cello Suite No. 5 as part of a weeklong residency at The Met Cloisters.

The spring 2010 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, the first drawn from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Met. The exhibition, on view from May 5 through August 15, 2010, explores developing perceptions of the modern American woman from the 1890s to the 1940s, and how they have affected the way American women are seen today. Focusing on archetypes of American femininity through dress, the exhibition reveals how the American woman initiated style revolutions that mirrored her social, political, and sartorial emancipation. Early mass-media representations of American women established the fundamental characteristics of American style – a theme explored via a multimedia installation in the final gallery.