Exhibition Tour—"Africa & Byzantium"
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
Artist Interview—Kent Monkman: mistikôsiwak (Wooden Boat People)
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
The Met Replica
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!
A Picasso Sketchbook: Fantasy and Reality
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.
Designing Tomorrow’s Met: Frida Escobedo
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.
The Tudors—Hanging the Troy Tapestry
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
Hanging the Troy Tapestry—Time-Lapse
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
Ballet Hispanico at The Met
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."
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Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty
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.
From the Vaults—Nevelson in Process (1977)
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
Exhibition Tour—Hilla & Bernd Becher
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
Exhibition Tour—In America: An Anthology of Fashion
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.
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