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'Tis the season for song! 🎶 ✨
Join us on Thursday, December 14 for caroling with the Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School.
The school’s vocal ensemble will perform a ca****la versions of sacred and secular winter holiday songs in the Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters and in the Medieval Sculpture Hall at Met Fifth Avenue.
📍 The Met Cloisters, 11 am
📍 The Met Fifth Avenue, 2 pm
Learn more: met.org/3Ifovnh
Explore The Met's new initiative, Africa in Focus—spotlighting the importance of African art in the global history of art and encompassing a comprehensive scope of exhibitions, partnerships, and programs that reflect the Museum’s ongoing commitment to studying and presenting the arts of Africa.
Max Hollein reflects on the Museum’s wide range of exhibitions, partnerships, and programs centered on African art.
Bundle up and celebrate the season of giving! 🧣 ❄️ ✨
From ornaments to stationery, from scarves to jewelry, browse holiday-themed goodies from The Met Store: met.org/3N3vx2g
As part of our program, every month we invite Disabled and Deaf artists to respond to works in The Met collection that spark curiosity or inspiration.
Today, artist John Bramblitt reflects on Georges Seurat's "Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque)":
"Up close to this painting you see nothing but chaotic brush strokes; I love this because often in life we feel cast into chaos as well. Seurat makes incredible use of broken color, a technique that allows the artist to draw attention to and accentuate one thing or diminish its impact by changing nothing but your perspective.
In life it is so easy to focus on any one event and let that drag you down, but with broken color no single event or color ever dominates. As you pull away from the painting, you can see that the chaos is made to work together and a bigger picture begins to form."
🎨 Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891). Circus Sideshow (Parade de cirque), 1887–88. Oil on canvas.
Kent Monkman is headed back to The Met!
Revisit Monkman's "mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People)"—on view from 2019–2021 in the Great Hall—and then plan your visit on Friday, December 15 as Monkman and Miss Chief Eagle Testickle return to the Museum to present a new memoir.
This program is free with Museum admission, though advance registration is recommended.
Learn more → met.org/47LCr4m
Got Napoleon on the brain? Here's a fun fact: This is not a painting—it's a tapestry! ✨
Jacques-Louis David was First Painter to the emperor, but Napoleon didn't care for the official coronation portrait David made in 1805.
Instead, he preferred a portrait by François Gérard that shows Napoleon in the Throne Room of the Tuileries Palace, the seat of the empire.
So in 1808, Napoleon ordered the imperial tapestry works to make a woven copy of the portrait, aligning himself with the royal tradition of tapestry patronage that extends back to the Middle Ages. A painted replica could have been produced quickly and with little expense, but tapestry was much more time-consuming and costly—and therefore considerably more precious.
Case in point—it took eight weavers over three full years to make this tour de force!
Learn more: met.org/3sVwlzs
🎨 Portrait of Napoleon I, designed 1805, woven 1808–11. After a painting by baron François Gérard (French, Rome 1770–1837 Paris). Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins (French, established 1662). Workshop of Michel Henri Cozette (French, 1754–1822 Paris) Woven by Harland the Elder (French, active 1790–ca. 1826); Abel Nicolas Sollier (French, active 1790–1815); and Charles Duruy (French, active ca. 1805–50), probably. Commissioned by Napoléon Bonaparte (French, Ajaccio 1769–1821 St. Helena). Wool, silk, silver-gilt thread (26-28 warps per inch, 10-12 per cm.); gilded pine frame
Even as the United States weathered unprecedented financial strife during the Depression, the country became a world leader in technological and industrial innovation. 💡
One of FDR's key infrastructure plans was to bring electricity to agrarian areas by establishing the Rural Electrification Administration, which lent funds to electric cooperatives run by local farming communities.
Artist Lester Beall's simple but highly effective designs announce their modernity in a similar manner as streamlined industrial design of the era—and their color palette and rural subject matter evoke American identity.
FINAL WEEK—See this and more on view on "Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s," closing December 10. met.org/ArtForTheMillions
🎨 Lester Beall (American, 1903–1969). Rural Electrification Administration posters, 1937. Screenprints. Merrill C. Berman Collection, Rye, N.Y.
Art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire—but less known are the profound artistic contributions of North Africa, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, and other powerful African kingdoms whose pivotal interactions with Byzantium had a lasting impact on the Mediterranean world.
Go inside "Africa & Byzantium" with Met curator Dr. Andrea Myers Achi as your guide and explore the staggering artistic contributions of medieval Africa.
Plan your visit: met.org/AfricaByzantium
This Friday, December 1, join artists as they reflect on works in "Africa and Byzantium," make connections to their own artistic practices, and explore collective memory, identity, and loss in northern and eastern Africa.
Learn about the exhibition from Met curator Andrea Myers Achi, then hear from artists Azza El Siddique, Theo Eshetu, and Tsedaye Makonnen, moderated by Hannah Giorgis of The Atlantic.
Free to attend but registration is required.
Learn more: met.org/3RjuYEb
This Native American and Indigenous Heritage Month, join us at The Met to celebrate the rich culture and history of Native American and Indigenous communities through art, talks, events, exhibitions, and more.
Learn more about the bronze plaque installed on the The Met Fifth Avenue’s facade that recognizes the homeland of the Indigenous Lenape diaspora.
What makes a cultural landmark?
Tomorrow, Wednesday, November 29, at 6 pm, join us at The Met as leading experts explore cultural heritage sites in Africa and share perspectives from Ethiopia, Ghana, Cameroon, and Uganda.
Hear about innovative initiatives that will foreground the richness and diversity of cultural landmarks along with the critical work to preserve these unique sites.
This is the first in a series of programs about cultural heritage sites in Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.
Free but registration is required. Learn more and get tickets: met.org/3uuLNmy
📸 Lalibela, Ethiopia, 2023. Image by Sosena Solomon
"It is that sense of looking into another world that's so fascinating about art in the first place."
— Cecily Brown
Final week! Venture into Cecily Brown's world as she discusses still life, memento mori, mirroring, vanitas—symbolic depictions of life's brevity—and the inspiration and making of "Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid," on view through December 3.
Learn more: met.org/DeathAndTheMaid
The holiday season has arrived! 🎄✨ The Met's Christmas tree is now on view.
The magnificently lit, 20-foot blue spruce looms over a vivid 18th-century Neapolitan Nativity scene, surrounded by an array of lifelike figures with silk-robed angels hovering above. The scene describes in detail the Mediterranean harbor town's multicultural population.
Learn more: met.org/3Ifovnh
📍 Find the tree in front of the 18th-century Spanish choir screen from the Cathedral of Valladolid in the Museum's Medieval Sculpture Hall.
'Tis the season to be artsy 🎨 ✨
Happy holidays from The Met Store! Save 25% on the best gifts of the season and enjoy free standard shipping on us.
Use code BLACK23 at checkout through Cyber Monday.
Start browsing: store.metmuseum.org
We say Gogh for it—visit The Met this holiday season with the family and bring along Roblox-lovers to explore our galleries as never before. 🎨 📲
Download the Replica app, powered by Verizon, to collect exclusive wearable Roblox items—like Van Gogh’s jacket and hat. Here’s how:
📲 Step 1: Download the Replica app: met.org/3YoeH2F
🏛️ Step 2: Head to the Museum!
🔎 Step 3: Open the map in the app to start exploring the galleries and finding replicas.
🏠 Step 4: When you get home, use the codes in the app to connect the Replica with your Roblox account, and find all your replicas waiting for you in your inventory.
Enjoy!
Happy gratitude, happy dog show, happy parade, happy football, happy friends, happy family, happy snoozing, and most of all—happy feasting. 🤗
See these delectable, drool-worthy works of art on view in the newly reopened European Paintings 1300–1800 galleries: met.org/3sHsTs6
Wishing you and yours a wonderful Thanksgiving!
🎨 Alexandre François Desportes (French, 1661–1743). Still Life with Silver, 1720s. Oil on canvas.
🎨 Luis Meléndez (Spanish, 1716–1780). The Afternoon Meal (La Merienda), ca. 1772. Oil on canvas.
🎨 Peter Wtewael (Dutch, 1596–1660). Kitchen Scene, 1620s. Oil on canvas.
🎨 Orsola Maddalena Caccia (Italian, 1596–1676). Fruit and Flowers, ca. 1630. Oil on canvas.
The wait is over! ✨ After five years, it’s time to look again at The Met’s beloved collection of European Paintings from 1300 to 1800.
Starting today, visit the new European Paintings 1300–1800 galleries, which underwent massive changes following a monumental five-year infrastructure project to replace the skylights.
Highlighting fresh narratives and dialogues among more than 700 works of art, the reopened and newly reconfigured 45 galleries showcase the interconnectedness of cultures, materials, and moments across The Met collection.
The chronologically arranged galleries feature longstanding favorites of the collection while also giving renewed attention to women artists, exploring Europe’s complex relationships with New Spain and the Viceroyalty of Peru, and looking more deeply into histories of class, gender, race, and religion.
Visit “Look Again: European Paintings 1300–1800” at the top of the Grand Staircase: met.org/3sHsTs6
Art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire (circa 330–1453), but less known are the profound artistic contributions of North Africa, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, and other powerful African kingdoms whose pivotal interactions with Byzantium had a lasting impact on the Mediterranean world.
NOW ON VIEW—Through a range of masterworks, many rarely or never before seen in public, "Africa & Byzantium" sheds new light on the staggering artistic achievements of medieval Africa.
Visit the exhibition through through March 3, 2024: met.org/47kPlGK
Artist O. Louis Guglielmi responded to the horrific living conditions, mass poverty, and general social unease of the 1930s brought about by the Great Depression with this somber work.
Its title—"One Third of a Nation"—refers to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s second inaugural address, in which he declared:
“I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. . . . The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
In the painting, coffins litter a city block lined with lifeless tenements, and a funereal wreath adorns the building at center. Guglielmi borrowed stylistic tactics from the Surrealists, using an exaggerated three-point perspective to heighten the uncanny melancholy of the scene.
See this and other works in "Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s," on view through December 10: met.org/ArtForTheMillions
🎨 O. Louis Guglielmi (American, born Egypt, 1906–1956). "One Third of a Nation," 1939. Oil and tempera on wood.
What do you see when you look at this artwork?
Born November 15, 1887, Georgia O’Keeffe spent summers in northern New Mexico starting in 1929, and settled there permanently several years later.
This work contains several references to the Indigenous peoples of the Southwest. The cow skull, confronting the viewer straight on, resembles the animal masks worn by the Pueblo people in ceremonial dances. Its shape recalls the crosses that top Hispano Catholic churches in northern New Mexico. The creases, folds, and undulating edges of the background evoke a textile, its abstracted composition conjuring Navajo blankets and its red, white, and blue palette summoning the American flag.
While her work brings Indigenous references to a broader American art tradition, O’Keeffe has drawn criticism for depicting the Southwest as an untouched, secluded region, thus occluding the specific perspectives of her Native American and Hispano neighbors.
See "Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue" on view in "Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s" through December 10. met.org/ArtForTheMillions
🎨 Georgia O'Keeffe (American, 1887–1986). Cow's Skull: Red, White, and Blue, 1931. Oil on canvas.
"While American visual culture has always been suffused with ideology, cultural production in the 1930s represents an exceptional range of political messaging."
Read along as Met curator Allie Rudnick explores the exceptional range of political messaging in the visual culture of the 1930s—from labor unions and communist and socialist causes to propaganda for FDR's controversial New Deal to values of technological innovation, American imperialism, and capitalism through the work of architects and designers.
Keep reading: met.org/46a2Lop
🎨 Harry Gottlieb (American, 1895–1993). Rock Drillers, 1939. Screenprint. Published by WPA.
As in the present, artists in the 1930s were intent on reaching the widest possible audience, illuminating the social ills of their day and inspiring hope in the future.
This ca. 1940 painting by Dox Thrash, a Black American, is a rare depiction of people of color organizing and participating in a labor strike in the 1930s. The scarcity of such imagery is likely in part due to the frequent denial of union membership to workers of color.
The crowd holds signs that protest high living costs, World War II, and the Scottsboro Boys trial, in which nine Black youths were falsely accused of ra**ng two White women in Alabama in 1931. Thrash’s inclusion of the placard in support of the Scottsboro Boys demonstrates an interest in fighting both racial and labor discrimination, shared by many activists of the time.
See this and more on view in "Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s," on view through December 10: met.org/ArtForTheMillions
🎨 Dox Thrash (American, 1893–1965). Untitled (Strike), ca. 1940. Watercolor. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
Hey photographers! 📸 Join us next Saturday, November 18 for a special session on tintype photography with Will Wilson (Diné, Navajo)—photographer and Head of Photography at Santa Fe Community College.
In these 45-minute sessions, gain insight into this early photographic technique and learn about Wilson’s method and creative choices.
Free, though advance registration is required. Space is limited; first come, first served.
Details Will Wilson (Diné, Navajo), photographer, Head of Photography, Santa Fe Community College Observe portrait demonstrations and the process of tintype photography with photographer Will Wilson. In these 45-minute sessions, gain insight into this early photographic technique and learn about Wi...
Wishing a happy Diwali to all who celebrate today! 🪔
During Diwali, it is believed that the goddess Lakshmi visits every home to bless it with prosperity.
In this quintessential image of Sri Lakshmi from early India, the goddess of abundance is represented as a woman richly adorned with heavy jewelry, from her hair ornaments to her massive anklets. Two lotuses support her feet and are the source from which she emerges.
The embodiment of the generative powers of water and plant life, Sri Lakshmi developed from the concepts of sri (that which is pleasing to look upon) and lakshmi (auspiciousness in all its forms), outlined in the Rigveda—the oldest religious text in India.
On the reverse, lotuses grow from a vase of plenty that holds the primordial waters, while a pair of peacocks, perched on a lotus bloom, announce the imminent arrival of the monsoon.
This incredible sculpture has been on loan to The Met in "Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE," on view through tomorrow, Monday, November 13. Visit the Museum today or tomorrow to see it before it closes!
🎨 Goddess of abundance, Sri Lakshmi. Kushana, 2nd century CE. Red sandstone. On loan from the National Museum, New Delhi.
NOW ON VIEW—Celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Met’s Arts of Korea gallery.
From 12th-century celadons to futuristic cyborg sculptures made in the 2000s, "Lineages" explores the history of Korean art through the four intertwined themes of lines, people, places, and things.
Visit "Lineages: Korean Art at The Met" through October 2024.
Learn more: met.org/3u5JlD5
Calling all "Manet/Degas" lovers 🖌️ ❤️
Join us during Date Night on Friday, November 17 for a full evening of "Manet/Degas"-inspired programs, including talks, music, and cocktails—plus copyists at work.
Final weekend! Explore the origins of Buddhist art in "Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE" on view through Monday, November 13.
Not going to make it on-site? Tour the exhibition virtually. ⬇️
Join John Guy, Florence and Herbert Irving Curator of the Arts of South and Southeast Asia in The Met’s Department of Asian Art, and Donald S. Lopez, Arthur ...
Happy National STEM/STEAM Day! 🔬
Why do pennies turn green?
Are bookworms real?
How do artworks last for thousands of years?
Explore the intersection of science and art through MetKids Microscope.
MetKids Microscope is a show about the science behind the art (and the art behind the science!) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Learn true stories about r...
Is it even fall if we don't share "Haystacks"?
In 1868, the industrialist Frédéric Hartmann commissioned a series of paintings of the four seasons—the artist Jean-François Millet would go on to work on the paintings intermittently for the next seven years.
In "Autumn" with the harvest finished, the gleaners have departed and the sheep are left to graze. Beyond the haystacks lie the plain of Chailly and the rooftops of Barbizon.
Take a closer look—you'll see features characteristic of Millet's later work.
Patches of the dark lilac-pink ground color are deliberately exposed, and the underdrawing is visible, particularly in the outlines of the haystacks and the sheep. Can you spot these details?
Learn more: met.org/3CRrfUB
🎨 Jean-François Millet (French, 1814–1875). Haystacks: Autumn, ca. 1874. Oil on canvas. On view in Gallery 802.
"This ancient world enables us to think more deeply about our engagement with this planet and its resources."
How do the environmental values of early Buddhism offer insight into climate concerns of today?
Explore more in "Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE," on view through November 13.
Buddhist Jataka stories, and the vibrant worlds they portray, offer insights into contemporary climate concerns.
"I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers." 🍂
— L. M. Montgomery
George Inness's lush "Autumn Oaks" features sunlit trees dominating the landscape, their richness intensified by deep shadows and a blue-violet sky.
It's thought he painted this just after his return from four years abroad, and his experience of painting in Italy and France led him away from naturalistic effects with disparate details and toward more coherent arrangements with a single motif dominating—evident here!
Learn more: met.org/46pRbWl
🎨 George Inness (American, 1825–1894). Autumn Oaks, ca. 1878. Oil on canvas. On view in Gallery 761.
The Great Hall Balcony Cafe is (almost) back for the season!
Join us starting Thursday, November 2 for light bites, pastries, cocktails, and more assorted treats. 🥐 ☕ 🍷
Learn more: met.org/Dining
Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas were friends, rivals, and at times antagonists who worked to define modern painting in France.
On view through January 7, "Manet/Degas" explores their careers in parallel and how their artistic approaches intersected.
Exhibition now on view at The Met
A peaceful bouquet for your scrolling on 🌸
Unlike many 19th-century photographs, which were primarily created for scientific records, this flower study was meant for commercial application—and only later was it valued for its artistic finesse.
Take a closer look—what do you notice?
Perhaps stirred by a gentle breeze during the long exposure, several of the blossoms (roses of Sharon and common roses) registered with a slight blurriness, making them appear almost to breathe and reach beyond the dimensions of the photograph.
Learn more: met.org/46Jk2o5
📸 Adolphe Braun (French, 1811–1877). [Flower Study, Rose of Sharon], ca. 1854. Albumen silver print from glass negative.
In 1994 the AIDS activist group ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) commissioned seven artists to create works for a limited-edition art box as a fundraising initiative for the organization: Nancy Spero, Lorna Simpson, Ross Bleckner, Mike Kelley, Kiki Smith, Simon Leung, and Louise Bourgeois.
On Thursday, October 26, join The Met's Peter Antony for a rare, intimate viewing of the limited-edition ACT UP Art Box, and learn more about his involvement with ACT UP. Free with Museum admission, though advance registration is recommended.
Learn more: met.org/3tGrbra
🎨 Nancy Spero (American, 1926–2009). ACT UP Art Box: To the Revolution, 1994. Birchwood, ink, paint. © Estate of Nancy Spero
"It is that sense of looking into another world that's so fascinating about art in the first place."
— Cecily Brown
Venture into Cecily Brown's world and go behind the scenes inside her studio as she discusses still life, memento mori, mirroring, vanitas—symbolic depictions of life's brevity—and the inspiration and making of "Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid," on view through December 3.
Learn more: met.org/DeathAndTheMaid
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Bring some STEAM learning home with MetKids Microscope—our video series for kids that explores the science behind the art (and the art behind the science!) at The Met.
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MetKids Microscope is a show about the science behind the art (and the art behind the science!) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
NOW ON VIEW—The 1837 painting "Bélizaire and the Frey Children" is a rare American portrait of an enslaved Black subject depicted with the family of his enslaver.
At the turn of the 20th century, the enslaved Afro-Creole teenager Bélizaire was deliberately concealed, likely by a member of the Frey family, and his figure was only revealed after a careful conservation treatment.
See the remarkable painting on view in Gallery 756 in The Met's American Wing.
Learn more about the painting's history: met.org/48PFp9f
🎨 Attributed to Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans (Franco-American, Maastricht (then under French rule) 1801–1888 Paris). Bélizaire and the Frey Children, ca. 1837. Oil on canvas.
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Art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire—but less known are the profound artistic contributions of North Africa, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, and other powerful African kingdoms whose pivotal interactions with Byzantium had a lasting impact on the Mediterranean world. Go inside "Africa & Byzantium" with Met curator Dr. Andrea Myers Achi as your guide and explore the staggering artistic contributions of medieval Africa. Plan your visit: met.org/AfricaByzantium
Kent Monkman is headed back to The Met! Revisit Monkman's "mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People)"—on view from 2019–2021 in the Great Hall—and then plan your visit on Friday, December 15 as Monkman and Miss Chief Eagle Testickle return to the Museum to present a new memoir. This program is free with Museum admission, though advance registration is recommended. Learn more → met.org/47LCr4m
We say Gogh for it—visit The Met this holiday season with the family and bring along Roblox-lovers to explore our galleries as never before. 🎨 📲 Download the Replica app, powered by Verizon, to collect exclusive wearable Roblox items—like Van Gogh’s jacket and hat. Here’s how: 📲 Step 1: Download the Replica app: met.org/3YoeH2F 🏛️ Step 2: Head to the Museum! 🔎 Step 3: Open the map in the app to start exploring the galleries and finding replicas. 🏠 Step 4: When you get home, use the codes in the app to connect the Replica with your Roblox account, and find all your replicas waiting for you in your inventory. Enjoy!
Neil Cox, Head of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, The Met In his inaugural talk at The Met, scholar Neil Cox explores Picasso’s Sketchbook No. 26, which the artist kept until his death. Deciphering written notes and Cubist drawings, Cox reveals Picasso’s drawing processes and explores connections with his other sketchbooks, paintings, drawings, and sculptures from around 1913.
Frida Escobedo, architect David Breslin, Leonard A. Lauder Curator in Charge, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Met Join Frida Escobedo to learn about her unique practice of wielding architecture to create powerful spatial and communal experiences. Demonstrating the dexterity and sensitivity in her elegant use of material, this conversation sheds light on today’s socioeconomic and ecological issues and the solutions discovered through architecture. Through her partnership with The Met, Escobedo has already exemplified her vision to create enthralling new modern and contemporary art galleries that challenge the embedded hierarchies of our history and chart a more accessible trajectory for the new Oscar L. Tang and H. M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing. The presentation is followed by a brief discussion with David Breslin, Leonard A. Lauder Curator in Charge, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art.
How many Met staff members does it take to hang a single tapestry? (A lot.) The Tudors loved how tapestries could tell stories at a monumental scale within their palaces. Keeping up with the movement of the court, the staff of the Great Wardrobe—a royal department responsible for furnishings—continuously installed and deinstalled tapestries. These great wool and silk images shifted between different palaces, rolled up and transported by horse and cart. (Our staff here at The Met are happy not to rely on a horse and cart to transport this one.) See this tapestry in "The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England,” on view through January 8: met.org/MetTudors
How many Met staff members does it take to hang a single tapestry? (A lot.) The Tudors loved how tapestries could tell stories at a monumental scale within their palaces. Keeping up with the movement of the court, the staff of the Great Wardrobe—a royal department responsible for furnishings—continuously installed and deinstalled tapestries. These great wool and silk images shifted between different palaces, rolled up and transported by horse and cart. (Our staff here at The Met are happy not to rely on a horse and cart to transport this one.) See this tapestry in "The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England,” on view through January 8: met.org/MetTudors
What work of art moves you? For Dandara Veiga, dancer at Ballet Hispanico, it's Rufino Tamayo's "Children's Games," on view at The Met. As we celebrate the final day of Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Month, Veiga shares in dance and in words how #ArtMoves her: "'Childrens' Games' caught my attention with how the painting presents itself in such a dynamic way. The combination of the warm colors along with the image of the children playing in a sort of half circle brought me joy. The abstract shapes made it even more fun to find movement to pair with this beautiful art piece. Once I started exploring the movements to match my interpretation of the painting, Rufino’s message became even more clear to me which is the vast joy and imagination of children that echoes in the arts." #LatinxHeritageMonth #HispanicHeritageMonth
Every design starts with a sketch.✨ Coming May 2023—explore the artistic methodology and stylistic vocabulary of Karl Lagerfeld's designs in “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty.” The exhibition opens to the public on May 5, 2023. The Costume Institute Benefit, known also as The Met Gala, will celebrate the exhibition on Monday, May 1. Learn more: met.org/KarlLagerfeld The exhibition and the benefit for The Costume Institute are made possible by CHANEL. Major support is provided by Fendi. Additional funding provided by KARL LAGERFELD and Condé Nast. 🎥 Directed by Loic Prigent. Produced by DERALF – BANGUMI.
Happy birthday to sculptor Louise Nevelson ✨ Nevelson was in her 40s before she sold a work to anyone other than a fellow artist, and in her 60s before the press conceded her stature as one of America's foremost sculptors—a reminder that it's never too late to pursue our passions. 🎥 Learn more about her creative process in the full 29-minute documentary made in 1977: met.org/3DKzZ29
Working as a rare artist couple, the Bechers changed the course of late 20th-century photography, focusing on a single subject: the disappearing industrial architecture of Western Europe and North America that fueled the modern era. Go inside our new exhibition "Bernd & Hilla Becher" with Met curator Jeff Rosenheim as your guide. Plan your visit: met.org/MetBecher
FINAL MONTH—Don't miss "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" on view in The Met's American Wing period rooms through September 5. Can't make it to the exhibition? We've got the next best thing—a guided virtual tour with Met curator Andrew Bolton. #MetInAmerica
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