Search / All Results

Image for Meet Mei Lum, Artist-in-Residence
video

Meet Mei Lum, Artist-in-Residence

January 11, 2024

By Mei Lum

Meet Civic Practice Partnership artist-in-residence Mei Lum, founder of the W.O.W. Project and the fifth-generation owner of her family's century-old porcelain business, the oldest operating store in Chinatown.
Image for Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion—Exhibition Tour with Andrew Bolton
Join Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute, on a tour of the exhibition “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.”
Image for Tan Dun—Symphony of Colors: Terracotta and Triple Concerto: Hero
The Met commissioned a new work from composer Tan Dun, “Symphony of Colors: Terracotta,” based on music from his opera _The First Emperor_.
Image for J.S. Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G major | MetLiveArts
Violinist Johnny Gandelsman performs Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 as part of a weeklong residency at The Met Cloisters.
Image for An Evening with Kim Hong Joo
video

An Evening with Kim Hong Joo

August 26, 2024
Join us to celebrate the exhibition Lineages: Korean Art at The Met.
Image for The Black Presence in Tudor England
Learn more about John Blanke, a trumpeter who performed at the coronation of Henry VIII, and other documented free Black residents of Tudor England.
Image for Celebrate the Year of the Rabbit with Chinese Calligraphy
Grab your brush and ink and give calligraphy a try to commemorate the Lunar New Year!
Image for Textile Conservation at The Met
video

Textile Conservation at The Met

February 28, 2023
Learn about the science, art, and exhibition techniques of textile conservation at The Met.
Image for Bijayini Satpathy in the Galleries: Taru (Islamic Art)
Inspired by non-figurative ornamentation and the interlacing of simple geometrical patterns in Islamic art, this performance is an abstract exploration of the body as it creates and becomes design in space.
Image for An Evening with Cecily Brown
video

An Evening with Cecily Brown

June 25, 2023

By Adam Eaker

Join artist Cecily Brown and Met curator Adam Eaker for a conversation about Brown’s engagement with art history, influences from The Met collection, and her own singular artistic practice.
Image for Japanese Illustrated Books
Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden)

...numerous masterpieces of woodblock printing, many of which are nearly impossible to find in such fine condition today...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
Image for Mishneh Torah
Master of the Barbo Missal

"...The Met takes a major step in presenting masterpieces of Judaica..."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
Image for Électricité
Man Ray

This remarkably seductive album of photogravures is an exquisite example of his legacy as America's greatest Surrealist photographer...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
Image for A Wooded River Landscape with a Church and Figures
Hendrick Avercamp

"...His finished drawings are much rarer, and the present one is among his best of an imaginary landscape..."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
Image for Nineteenth-Century Exhibition Pistols
Gilles Michel Louis Moutier-Le Page

...these very pistols spectacularly confirmed that the French were then unsurpassed in their mastery of the gunmaker's art...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
Irving Penn

"The resulting portraits–landmarks in the history of twentieth century photography–are a brilliant update of some 300 years’ interest by artists in producing pictures of small tradesmen, or petit métiers."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
Image for Saint Sebastian
Master of the Furies

When this compelling, transformative statuette of Saint Sebastian became available, it was an opportunity not to be missed, as the Museum has nothing comparable...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
Image for Porphyry vessel with bearded masks


This is one of the most elegant and best-preserved porphyry vessels to have survived from classical antiquity...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
Image for Brooch with Carved Emeralds and Sapphires
Cartier

The journey of the emerald in this brooch from Colombia, where it originated in its natural state, to seventeenth-century India and back to New York underscores the abiding and universal attraction of great gems.

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.
Image for Ceremonial ewer


With the daring amalgamation of the whimsical, exotic, and macabre, the sculptural details on this ewer brilliantly show off the distinctive Portuguese interpretation of Renaissance style.

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.