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Hand with blue gloves carefully placing image in order
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Tintypes from the William L. Schaeffer Collection
April 11
Two women one in red, and one in all black walking a dim lit gallery.
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Exhibition Tour—Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie
April 10
Collage of Miami storefronts palm trees and white torso.
Kayak
Samoylova’s images capture the trompe l’oeil of Florida, many to do with water and glass—the mise-en-abyme of cypress trunks reflected in a tannic creek.
Ange Mlinko
March 21
Painting of a living area. Modest light comes through red and gold curtains. A wooden desk, dresser, and armchair round out the image.
In Menzel’s Sitting Room
My eyes seem to drag me straight to the curtains, which take only a gentle toll on the peaky daylight that comes through them.
Eliza Barry Callahan
March 27
A collage of five artworks against a light parchment background
Marking International Provenance Research Day at The Met
Five case studies for select recent acquisitions demonstrate the varied and complex nature of provenance research at The Met.
Lucian Simmons, Maya Muratov, Christine E. Brennan, Ria Breed, Anne Dunn-Vaturi, Michael Seymour, and Mary Chan
April 8

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Series from The Met

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Grid of six black and white photographic portraits of artists
The Artist Project
What artists see when they look at The Met
A close-up of vivid bird feathers in shades of orange, teal, yellow, and brown, with overlaid text that reads 'Immaterial,' with the letters staggered vertically.
Immaterial
A podcast spanning 5,000 years of art, one material at a time.
A black-and-white still from the 1928 film Behind the Scenes: The Working Side of the Museum, which depicts the superimposed image of an old-fashioned time-card machine over the face of a wall clock
From The Vaults
Films from the Museum’s extensive moving-image archive.

Nature

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These articles highlight the relationship between art and the Earth.

Wood scene showing a commotion of figures and animals in distress
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From The Vaults
“Woods” by W. H. Auden: An Optical Poem, 2025
February 21
The people standing together in a gallery with hard hanging from the wall, facing them.
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Exhibition Tour — Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature
February 20
Two men in coats stand beside a large tree, gazing at a crescent moon in a dusky sky.
Winter in the Newest World
The figures in Friedrich’s painting are entirely embodied, present with their thoughts and with each other, just as I have longed to be.
Emily Pittinos
February 3

From the Archives

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Articles, images, and film from The Met's 150-year history.

A child holds up a multicolored paper ornament in a fuzzy image
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From The Vaults
Scraps, 1973
March 21
Wood scene showing a commotion of figures and animals in distress
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From The Vaults
“Woods” by W. H. Auden: An Optical Poem, 2025
February 21
Crescent Moon Detail from a Durer Print in Black and White
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From The Vaults
Moon Art, 1969
January 16

In Circulation

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Read articles and the latest news about The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Libraries' collections, activities, and research related to the history of art.

Colorful record featuring portrait of a woman
Turn Up the Volumes
Books with audio elements.
Ellie Ngo
March 19
Bronze Benin sculpture with a figure holding a book. The background is adorned with floral motifs
Benin Art in Auction Catalogs
Watson Library’s contribution to the Digital Benin project via the Internet Archive.
Amy Hamilton
February 19
Cover of blook with a black and white photograph inlaid
New “Blooks” in Watson
The Dr. Lynn Geringer Heckman and Dr. Bruce Heckman Gift of Book Objects.
Mindell Dubansky
January 22
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