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Image for Masterworks Across Time and Place: Native American Art and a Delacroix Drawing on *MetCollects*
Production Editor Dana Miller introduces two new MetCollects episodes that coincide with three exhibitions at The Met Fifth Avenue.
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Reinstalling Art of Native America: Three Perspectives

June 25, 2021

By Cristina Balloffet Carr, Sylvia Yount, Marie Watt, and Alexandra Barlow

Explore _Dream Catcher_ by Marie Watt (Seneca Nation), featured in the exhibition _Art of Native America_.
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Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents Virtual Opening

April 21, 2022

By Stephanie L. Herdrich and Sylvia Yount

Join curators Stephanie Herdrich and Sylvia Yount for a virtual tour of _Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents_, which reconsiders Homer’s work through the lens of conflict, a theme that crosses his prolific career.
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“Harlem on Whose Mind?”: The Met and Civil Rights

February 17, 2021

By Kelly Baum, Maricelle Robles, and Sylvia Yount

Kelly Baum, Maricelle Robles, and Sylvia Yount recount and reflect on the complicated legacy of the 1969 Met exhibition Harlem on My Mind.
Image for Redefining American Art: Native American Art in The American Wing
Curator Sylvia Yount details three extraordinary Native American artworks from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection that were recently installed in The American Wing.
Image for Groundbreaking Curatorial Collaborations: Introducing the 2018–19 Season of MetLiveArts
Limor Tomer announces the new season of MetLiveArts programming, which will feature several collaborations with curatorial departments across the Museum and residencies by Julia Bullock and Sonnambula.
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The American Wing at 100

December 20, 2024
Join curators Sylvia Yount, Medill Higgins Harvey, Adrienne Spinozzi, Amelia Peck, Alyce Perry Englund, Stephanie L. Herdrich, Thayer Tolles, Patricia Marroquin Norby, and Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen along with Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director and CEO as the American Wing celebrates its 100th anniversary with a reinstallation of its extensive collection of art and design.
Image for The Ashcan School, The Eight, and the New York Art World
Sylvia Yount, Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of The American Wing, announces a new installation of works by artists from the Ashcan School now on view in gallery 772.
Image for Now on View: Drawings by Bill Traylor, Pioneer of Outsider Art, in The American Wing
Sylvia Yount, Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of The American Wing, announces a new installation of works from the late 1930s by Bill Traylor, the pioneer of so-called outsider art.
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Research Assistant Moira Gallagher celebrates the legacy and 30th anniversary of In Pursuit of Beauty, a landmark exhibition on the Aesthetic movement in America, at The Met.