Perspectives

Detail of Adam's face.

Immaterial: Stone

Making and breaking legacies.

June 4

Portrait of an old man in a simple brown tunic with fur trim. His hands are placed over each other in the bottom right corner of the frame.

Memling's Faces

They say we are given a face at birth that we must live with initially, but by a certain age, we make our own face and then we must live with that.

David Levi Strauss May 20

Reflective mirror that says EVERYTHING WILL BE TAKEN AWAY.

Visualizing the Afterlife

Explore how artists across time and place have contemplated the afterlife.

Andrea Myers Achi and Akili Tommasino May 17

Black-and-white poster with a bold statistic about AIDS, an image of a baby doll, and accompanying text about HIV/AIDS in babies.

Queer Activist Art

Gran Fury’s weapons of mass production.

Jasmine Kuylenstierna June 7

A woman in a multicolored dress is seated on a yellow couch, her back to the viewer. In the background at right is a black and white portrait of a mother holding a baby; at left is the room's doorway. The wallpaper and floor is characterized by whimsical and geometric designs, including portraits as part of the wallpaper.

How to Read Portraits

Kathryn Calley Galitz takes a deep dive into
portraiture from Ancient Roman coins to Instagram selfies.

Rachel High June 6

A chalk-line illustration of a cast of characters from MetKids Microscope Season 2, featuring an art detective pointing her magnifying glass at a microscope, fingerprint ghosts, an assortment of bugs, and a girl resting on a magnifying glass zooming in on a bug-eaten leaf

The science behind the art (and the art behind the science!) at The Met.

An iPhone showing the Immaterial podcast art for Season 2 - white

5,000 years of art, one material at a time

Grid of nine black and white photographic portraits of artists

What artists see when they look at The Met

Harlem Is Everywhere podcast artwork featuring William Henry Johnsons's

A new podcast about the art and legacy of the Harlem Renaissance

A pagoda with a koi pond

Met staff lowering down the detached head of a marble statue back onto its body

A black-and-white photo of Jacob Lawrence resting his head in his hand in front of one of his paintings

Side-view of a late-nineteenth-century silky red dress with a large bustle

George Seurat's Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque) with musicians performing for a crowd at night

Early 20th century photograph of the facade of The Met Fifth Avenue

Colorful ceramic tile painting of a woman leaning on a bolster pillow outdoors, holding out a cup towards a merchant on his knees

A wooden mask decorated with stone

Thomas Cole and National Parks

The Temple of Dendur at The Met Fifth Avenue

Thomas Cole and National Parks

Terracotta lekythos, or oil flask, with black figures of women weaving on a loom on orange ground.

Detail of Faith Ringgold's artwork Freedom of Speech showing the blue section of a painting of the American flag with names written over the white stars

A renaissance painting being analyzed with imaging technology

Four women are seated around a bowl, looking upward toward the light