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Museum Archives Senior Associate for Archival Processing Celia Hartmann discusses some recently digitized finding aids.
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Art Is Art. Fashion Is Fashion.

July 14, 2023

By Kai Toussaint Marcel

Despite Karl Lagerfeld's insistence on the separation between art and fashion, he drew inspiration from a wide range of artistic sources.
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Welcome to The Met Film Archive

January 31, 2020

By Christopher Alessandrini, Robin Schwalb, and Stephanie Wuertz

Each month in 2020, The Met will release three to four films from the Museum’s extensive moving-image archive.
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Gallery views of The Costume Institute's spring 2019 exhibition, _[Camp: Notes on Fashion](~/link.aspx?_id=05D157FAA43347B7B8E1BC67C3729938&_z=z)_, narrated by exhibition curator Andrew Bolton.
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Secrets of the Tudor Archives

October 21, 2022
Hear from a scholar whose recent discoveries in British archives have transformed our understanding of these artists and their royal sitters.
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The James Van Der Zee Archive

December 13, 2022
James Van Der Zee, the world-renowned chronicler of Black life in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance and for decades thereafter, was a virtuoso portraitist and one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century.
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Digital Archives: A Visual History

October 4, 2013

By Stephanie Post

In addition to images of works of art, the Met's digital archive also documents the Museum's buildings, inside and outside, as they've expanded and changed over time to accommodate works of art and visitors. A veritable treasure trove of visual history, these images offer clues to familiar museum experiences: a child's rebellious stance; a visitor's self-consciousness at being caught on film; managing an oversized coat.
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Harlem Is Everywhere: Episode 2, Portraiture & Fashion

February 20, 2024

By Jessica Lynne, Bridget R. Cooks, and Robin Givhan

What role did fashion play in the Harlem Renaissance?
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Rebecca Lindsey takes a dive into early twentieth-century archives held by the Department of Musical Instruments.
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Spotlight on The Cloisters Library and Archives

February 19, 2020

By Michael Carter

Associate Museum Librarian at The Met Cloisters Michael Carter discusses the history of the Cloisters library and archives.
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Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France)

Date: Paris, late 1913–early 1914
Accession Number: 2019.593

See an alphabetical list of current full-time staff in The Costume Institute.

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Louis Lang’s Art Students presents an intriguing window into the professionalization of women’s art education in the United States during the nineteenth century.

Nan Kempner – the late New York style icon, connoisseur of the couture, and member of The Best Dressed List's Hall of Fame – will be the subject of the winter exhibition in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, from December 12, 2006, through March 4, 2007. Known for a seemingly effortless style that nonetheless displayed a meticulous attention to detail, she was a passionate client and collector of such designers as Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino, and Oscar de la Renta from the 1960s onward.
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Edouard Manet (French, Paris 1832–1883 Paris)

Date: 1866
Accession Number: 89.21.3

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Associate Curator Jane A. Dini discusses John Singer Sargent's lively portrayal of Carmen Dauset Moreno, better known as La Carmencita, and a range of other dancers.

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Fernand Léger (French, Argentan 1881–1955 Gif-sur-Yvette)

Date: 1922
Accession Number: 2016.237.9

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Claude Monet (French, Paris 1840–1926 Giverny)

Date: 1899
Accession Number: 29.100.113

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The Costume Institute's Irene Lewisohn Costume Reference Library collection contains thirty thousand books and periodicals as well as over one thousand and five hundred designer files all pertaining to the history of fashion, haute couture, regional clothing, and costume from around the world, dated from the sixteenth century to today.