The highly stratified social system at Nan Madol is the earliest known example of such centralized political power in the western Pacific.

Gainsborough was an avid amateur player, and through his extensive correspondence with composer Carl Friedrich Abel, we learn of his love of the instrument, specifically his desire to “take [my] Viol da Gamba and walk off to some sweet Village when I can print Landskips and enjoy the fag End of Life in quietness and ease.”

Women and the Critical Eye supports greater understanding of and appreciation for works of art, assisted by Women and the Critical Eye supports greater understanding of and appreciation for works of art, assisted by Museum professionals. The thirteenth annual conversation explored our collectors' introduction to and subsequent collection of jewelry. Featuring: Milly Glimcher, co-founder of Pace Gallery, art historian, and jewelry collector Laurie Ann Goldman, board director, former CEO of Spanx, and jewelry collector Melanie Holcomb, curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters Lisa Hubbard, jewelry specialist and consultant to the auction world This program coincided with The Met's forthcoming exhibition Jewelry: The Body Transformed, which will open on November 12, 2018. Recorded June 26, 2018 professionals. The thirteenth annual conversation explored our collectors' introduction to and subsequent collection of jewelry. Featuring: Milly Glimcher, co-founder of Pace Gallery, art historian, and jewelry collector Laurie Ann Goldman, board director, former CEO of Spanx, and jewelry collector Melanie Holcomb, curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters Lisa Hubbard, jewelry specialist and consultant to the auction world This program coincided with The Met's forthcoming exhibition Jewelry: The Body Transformed, which will open on November 12, 2018. Recorded June 26, 2018

This overdue investigation of George Grosz’s (1893–1959) most compelling paintings, drawings, prints, and collages offers a reassessment of the celebrated German Expressionist during his years in Berlin—from his earliest artistic endeavors to the trenchant satirical images and searing depictions of moral decay between the World Wars for which he is known today. Menacing street scenes, rowdy cabarets, corrupt politicians, wounded soldiers, greedy war profiteers, and other symbols of Berlin’s interwar decline all met with the artist’s relentless gaze, which exposed the core social issues that eventually led to Germany’s extreme nationalist politics. Featuring masterpieces as well as rarely published works, this book provides further insight into the artist’s creative pinnacle, reached during this critical and ominous period in German history.

A conversation with the artist Wangechi Mutu and Kelly Baum, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Curator of Contemporary Art.

"I see vibrant thoughts as clouds and feel volatile emotions as waves."

Go behind the scenes with artist Tenzing Rigdol as he discusses his installation, Biography of a Thought, for the exhibition Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet, on view through January 12, 2025.

*Spirals* (1970), a mesmerizing short film by Joyce Chopra, was commissioned for The Met's first mobile exhibition, "Eye Opener: The Spiral Show."

Florence and Herbert Irving Associate Chief Librarian Tony White discusses some of the "cool books" acquired by Thomas J. Watson Library in 2017.