The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Making of 82nd & Fifth

Posted on Thursday, November 14, 2013, by Howard Silver, Media Producer for Special Projects, Digital Media

Howard Silver, media producer for special projects, introduces a short video that provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the 82nd & Fifth team produces each two-minute episode in the series.

A Profusion of Blue and Yellow Feathers

Posted on Tuesday, November 12, 2013, by Angeles, TAG Member; and Jill, TAG Member

Teen Advisory Group Members Angeles and Jill discuss the brightly colored feathers used to make the panels on view in the exhibition Feathered Walls: Hangings from Ancient Peru.

Breakthrough on 82nd & Fifth

Posted on Friday, October 4, 2013, by Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO

We just posted my episode, entitled Breakthrough, as part of 82nd & Fifth, the award-winning web series that has introduced our audience and our curators to a whole new way of looking at works of art.

Digital Underground

Welcome to Digital Underground

Posted on Friday, September 27, 2013, by Sree Sreenivasan, Chief Digital Officer

Welcome to Digital Underground, one of many blogs at the Met.

Now at the Met

Comparing Pairs

Perrin Stein, Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints
Posted: Thursday, December 5, 2013

Perrin Stein takes a close look at thought-provoking pairings on view in the exhibition Artists and Amateurs, Etching in Eighteenth-Century France.
Digital Underground

Creative Technologist Interview: Jonathan Monaghan's Leda and the Marsyas

Don Undeen, Senior Manager of Media Lab, Digital Media
Posted: Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Don Undeen interviews Jonathan Monaghan, a creative technologist who participated in our 3D Hackathon back in 2012, to ask him about one of the works he created that weekend and about his work with 3D printing and CGI animation.
Teen Blog

An International Take on Textiles

Brooke, TAG Member; and Tiffany, TAG Member
Posted: Monday, November 18, 2013

Teen Advisory Group Members Brooke and Tiffany introduce the current exhibition Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800.
Travel Blog

Bhutan: Taktsang Monastery

Kurt Behrendt, Assistant Curator, Department of Asian Art
Posted: Monday, October 21, 2013

On our first day in Nepal we visited the Swayambhunath Stupa, a monument that, while founded in the fifth century to house the relics of the Buddha, has since undergone many restorations funded by the devout.
Byzantium and Islam Exhibition Blog

A Final Note

Brandie Ratliff, Research Associate, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters
Posted: Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Research Associate Brandie Ratliff offers some final thoughts on the Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition exhibition (on view March 14–July 8, 2012).
The Game of Kings Exhibition Blog

High Ground

Barbara Drake Boehm, Curator, Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters
Posted: Friday, April 20, 2012

In the final post for The Game of Kings blog, exhibition curator Barbara Drake Boehm returns to India, where chess was invented.