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A Self-Portrait painting by the African American Painter Horace Pippin. A Black man sits against a blue background from his shoulders up looking directly towards us with deep brown eyes. He is wearing a black suit, off-white yellowish suit, and a striped tie with brown and a golden-mustard yellow.
Considering Horace Pippin
How has art history overlooked the crucial role disability played in Pippin's painting?
Bryan Martin
July 26, 2023
Painting of a woman in a white dress playing the harp while a lapdog sleeps at her feet in an adorned dressing room
Coxcombs and Macaronis: Fashion, Gender, and the Canon of Art History
How artists perceived to have “feminine” traits have faced exclusion in the history of European painting.
Adam Eaker
July 21, 2023
painting of a woman in a white dress wearing a broad hat sitting with a book with ribbon covering her face
The Portraits of Volker Hermes
The artist behind a series of popular photocollages discusses the signs and symbols of portraiture.
Christopher Alessandrini
June 30, 2023
Image of the artist cecily brown in front of an abstraction.
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An Evening with Cecily Brown
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.
Adam Eaker
June 25, 2023
The curators Jeff Rosenheim and Thelma Golden stand before a series of photographs by the renowned Harlem Renaissance photographer James Van Der Zee.
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The James Van Der Zee Archive
James Van Der Zee, the world-renowned chronicler of Black life in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance and for decades thereafter, was a virtuoso portraitist and one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century.
December 13, 2022
Portrait of a Young Man, Probably Robert Devereux by Nicholas Hilliard
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Secrets of the Tudor Archives
Hear from a scholar whose recent discoveries in British archives have transformed our understanding of these artists and their royal sitters.
October 21, 2022
Curators Lizzie Cleland and Adam Eaker in the Tudors exhibition looking at a painted portrait of Queen Elizabeth I
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The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England Virtual Opening
Join curators Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker to explore The Tudors, which traces the transformation of the arts in Tudor England through more than 100 objects.
October 19, 2022
Composite images of Guadeloupe-born model Adrienne Fidelin posing with elaborate headdresses
Mode au Congo: Travails of the Traveling Hats
How did a set of Congolese headdresses influence the evolution of modern fashion?
Wendy A. Grossman
September 26, 2022
Reimagining Peruvian Portraiture with Ana de Orbegoso
Learn how the artist updates ancient Andean aesthetics to reflect the world today.
Mandy Kritzeck
September 16, 2022
Marble portrait bust of the emperor Gaius, known as Caligula
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Spotlight: Debunking the Myth of Whiteness
Two scholars discuss misconceptions about race and polychromy in the ancient world.
Sarah Lepinski and Dan-el Padilla Peralta
July 7, 2022