Perspectives
The Met’s home for deep dives on art, interviews, personal essays, scientific discoveries, and more.
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Renowned pipa player Wu Man returns to The Met to perform Lou Harrison’s Pipa Concerto with The Knights.
Emery Kerekes
September 2
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Join curator Alisa LaGamma to celebrate the renovation and reopening of the Arts of Africa galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
Alisa LaGamma and Jenny Peruski
August 14
My search for meaning in Black style began as a search through ancestry to reveal beauty and complexity over time and across traditions of expression.
Grace Wales Bonner
August 15
A stone’s throw from the Imagine mosaic in Central Park’s Strawberry Fields, its ancient Neapolitan inspiration visits The Met.
Michelangelo Iossa and Sarah Lepinski
August 1
How do African dress traditions shape and inspire the possibilities of contemporary fashion and Black identity?
Idelle Taye
August 8
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Short documentaries direct a local lens on some of Africa’s most notable cultural landscapes.
See the science behind the art (and the art behind the science!) at The Met.
Audiovisual materials from the Museum’s extensive archive.
Hispanic/Latine Heritage
These stories illuminate the cultural contributions of Hispanic, Latine, and Afro-Latine artists and creatives both in the United States and around the world.
Audio
“It's important to create this connection with the past.”
Francisco Corrales Ulloa
September 16
Video
Join curators Joanne Pillsbury and Laura Filloy Nadal to celebrate the renovation and reopening of the Arts of the Ancient Americas galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing.
Joanne Pillsbury and Laura Filloy Nadal
July 17
Audio
“For me, living and producing textiles goes along with your life, along with your age, along with your everyday activity, that's why it is a living art, it’s not a piece that's from the past.”
July 14
From the Archives
Articles, images, and film from The Met's 150-year history.
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September 4
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From The Vaults
The Eames-designed visual display at The Met was primed for all types of visitors to understand the relationships between time, place, culture, and artistic value.
Kelsey Rose Williams
June 18
In Circulation
Read articles and the latest news about The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Libraries' collections, activities, and research related to the history of art.
Recent acquisitions and highlights in The Costume Institute Library.
Julie Lê
July 30
Nineteenth-century house albums from Watson Library and the Department of Drawings and Prints Library.
Lydia Aikenhead
July 16
A glimpse inside Watson’s acquisitions from the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.
Raymond Lei
June 18