Perspectives

Detail of a vibrant quilt made up of squares with narrow, rectangular strips of alternating colors.

Immaterial: Blankets and Quilts

Threads of identity.

July 16

Photograph of photographer Eileen Travell smiling and adjusting a camera on a tripod.

Channeling Edward

Go behind the scenes at The Met with photographer Eileen Travell as she channels the spirit of Edward C. Moore—the creative force who led Tiffany & Co. during the second half of the 19th century.

June 27

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

Two women standing standing together in a low lit room.

Exhibition Tour—Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co.

Join exhibition curator Medill Higgins Harvey, special guests, curators Deniz Beyazit and Monika Bincsik, on a tour of the exhibition Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co

Medill Higgins Harvey June 20

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

Johnny Gandelsman performing the violin in Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters.

J.S. Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G major (Johnny Gandelsman, violin)

In 2023, violinist Johnny Gandelsman realized a longtime dream: performing J.S. Bach’s six Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, plus novel arrangements of the composer’s six cello suites, over a weeklong residency at The Met Cloisters.

July 22

A person leans over to place a book between the plates of a book press in the foreground at right.

Conserving Rusconi: Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture

Go behind the scenes at The Met to see the conservation of a 17th-century edition of Vitruvius’s Ten Books on Architecture.

July 18

Celebrating the 15th International Zine Month at Watson Library

A selection of Watson’s international zines.

Melissa Raymond and Clara Salyer July 17

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

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

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.

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 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 Jul 26, 2023

Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl of Pompeii

"No place for a blind girl in a city of ash."

Georgina Kleege Jul 10, 2023

Sculpture of a right ear with the canal indicated by a circular hole, traces of red paint, and five syllabic signs carved into the lobe

Celebrating Disability at The Met

Disabled and Deaf artists reflect on work from the Museum's collection.

Victoria Martinez Jul 1, 2022

An image of two young figures sitting on the branch of a birch tree. The top and bottom portions of the image are blurred, drawing attention to the in-focus face of the figure on the left.

“Birches” by Robert Frost: An Optical Poem, 2024 | From the Vaults

“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