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Tour of Central Park with historian Charles Beveridge exploring Olmsted's design and history today.
April 22
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Listen to an optical poem illustrating W. H. Auden’s recitation of “Woods” with artworks from The Met collection, juxtaposed with footage of wildlife in Kingston, New York.
February 21, 2025
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Join Alison Hokanson, Curator in the Department of European Paintings, and Joanna Sheers Seidenstein, Assistant Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints, along with Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director and CEO, to virtually explore Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature.
February 20, 2025
The poet Emily Pittinos responds to Friedrich’s painting Two Men Contemplating the Moon.
Emily Pittinos
February 3, 2025
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Art critic Aline B. Saarinen offers a poetic consideration of the moon’s significance across time and cultures.
January 16, 2025
How have printmakers in the United States addressed a long history of inundation and the social inequities it exacerbates?
Juan Gabriel Ramirez Bolívar
July 29, 2024
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“When I see birches bend to left and right / Across the lines of straighter darker trees, / I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.” On April 7, 1955, Robert Frost delivered a poetry reading at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
March 26, 2024
Gallery photographs over the last century reveal the evolving use of plants in indoor design.
Jennie Choi
November 8, 2023
Buddhist Jataka stories, and the vibrant worlds they portray, offer insights into contemporary climate concerns.
Savita Monie
October 25, 2023
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Explore Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE in this virtual tour of the exhibition.
August 3, 2023