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editorial

Lamps, Slippers, Trumpets, and More: Recently Digitized Trade Catalogs

January 7, 2015

By Holly Phillips

Associate Manager for Acquisitions Holly Phillips discusses a burgeoning digital collection of trade catalogs from Watson Library.

Essay

Shoes in The Costume Institute

October 1, 2004

By Jessa Krick

Shoes provide important clues to dramatic changes in fashionable dress through the centuries, documenting shifts in aesthetic taste, as well as advances in design and manufacturing techniques.

Essay

The Idea and Invention of the Villa

October 1, 2004

By Geoffrey Taylor and Vanessa Bezemer Sellers

Pliny’s retreats slipped into the landscape with terraced gardens and opened outward to natural surroundings through colonnades, or loggias, which replaced solid enclosing walls.

editorial

The Met Gala: From Midnight Suppers to Superheroes and Rihanna

April 30, 2020

By Nancy Chilton

Chief External Relations Officer Nancy Chilton takes a look back at the history of The Met Gala, from its inception in 1948 to the red carpet spectacle of today.

editorial

The Met Gala: From Midnight Suppers to Superheroes and Rihanna

April 30, 2018

By Nancy Chilton

Chief Communications Officer Nancy Chilton takes a look back at the history of The Met Gala, from its inception in 1948 to the red carpet spectacle of today.

Press Release

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity to Open at Metropolitan Museum on February 26
February 26 – May 27, 2013

editorial

The Rise of Pastel in the Eighteenth Century

July 5, 2011

By Marjorie Shelley

The current exhibition Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th-Century Europe opens a window on one of the most popular art forms of the Rococo and Enlightenment eras. These works slipped from public notice long ago as they became associated with the artificiality of the ancien régime, and in modern times because their fragility discouraged exhibition and travel.

Essay

Containing the Divine: North Sumatra, Indonesia

June 28, 2022

By Maia Nuku

Among the Toba Batak peoples of Indonesia, ritual specialists known as datu used vessels to mediate between the human and supernatural world.

Essay

Renaissance Organs

October 1, 2002

By Rebecca Arkenberg

The organ is a complex wind instrument that employs one or more keyboards to operate valves that admit air into a series of individual pipes, which make the sound.

Essay

Ancient Greek Dress

October 1, 2003

By Department of Greek and Roman Art

Greek vase painting and traces of paint on ancient sculptures indicate that fabrics were brightly colored and generally decorated with elaborate designs.