The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

06/24/2026

For centuries Raphael has been widely admired for Madonna and Child paintings that include a display of tenderness.

His ability to portray lively, playful, and innocent moments—while also showing great skill in depicting the human body—is especially remarkable given the challenges of childbirth, infancy, and parenting during his time.

📣 Last chance! Only 4 more days left to see "Raphael: Sublime Poetry" at The Met!

06/20/2026

The Met commemorates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence—the founding document of the United States of America—with a special installation, events, and performances.

On July 4, join us for:

🥁 A high-energy performance by the Brooklyn United Marching Band on The Met’s iconic steps.

🎶 A choral meditation with five-time Grammy-nominated Clarion Choir and Grammy-winning Catalyst Quartet for "the national anthems," a moving work by David Lang that reflects on national identity and finding common ground.

💡 Learn more → met.org/4enkP3u

06/19/2026

This Juneteenth, celebrate the life, legacy, and work of Black women who fought for liberation.

Created nearly thirty years apart, artist Elizabeth Catlett commemorated Black women's labor and heroism during enslavement with linoleum prints of Harriet Tubman and Sourjourner Truth.

Her goal was to "present black people in their beauty and dignity for ourselves and others to understand and enjoy."

Catlett shows Truth as a commanding figure, filling the picture plane, who stares out toward the viewer with a penetrating gaze. The viewer senses the artist’s own hand at work in the deep, direct incising of lines that characterizes her printmaking technique.
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Elizabeth Catlett (American and Mexican, Washington, D.C. 1915–2012 Cuernavaca), “Harriet,” 1975. Linocut.

Elizabeth Catlett (American and Mexican, Washington, D.C. 1915–2012 Cuernavaca), "In Sojourner Truth I Fought for the Rights of Women as well as Negroes, from “The Negro Woman” series," 1947. Linocut

06/18/2026

In premodern Europe and the Americas, mythical hybrid creatures weren’t just stories—they were often believed to exist. 🐉🦄

Europeans imagined unicorns roaming the edges of the world, while in northern Peru, fox-warriors were said to charge into battle. For artists, these unseen beings offered a chance to bring imagination to life.

This tapestry fragment represents a fabulous lionlike beast with pointed teeth, clawed feet, and a scaly rump. Creatures like this, inspired by illustrations in ancient and medieval books such as the Physiologus and medieval bestiaries, often symbolized vices. In this scene, the figures standing beside the beast appear to have overcome these desires.

📣 See "Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas" on view at The Met Cloisters through October 18.
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🖼️ "Fragment of a Tapestry or Wall Hanging," ca. 1420–30. Upper Rhenish. Wool and linen.

06/17/2026

Celebrate the Knicks championship with a visit to The Met, illuminated in blue and orange through Sunday, June 21! 🧡💙

New Yorkers always pay what you wish at The Met. Plan your visit → met.org/4w1f7M9

06/17/2026

Join us for a series of lectures exploring the evolution of history painting!

Delve into how contemporary artists from Gerhard Richter to Kent Monkman and Kerry James Marshall have reclaimed the past, reshaping our understanding of history and responding to our world today.

🗓️ Sunday, June 28
🕰️ 2 pm
🎟️ Get tickets →

Details Kathryn Calley Galitz, art historian and managing museum educator Join us for a series of lectures exploring the evolution of history painting. Track its origins in early modern Europe, when the past was used to frame the present, to its role today, as contemporary artists from Kerry James M...

06/17/2026

Welcome to The Thomas J. Watson Library!

Since its founding in 1870, The Met library's mission has included serving as an educational resource for the public at large, not only for the Museum’s staff and curators.

The Watson Library contains more than 250,000 exhibition catalogues, 21,000 periodical titles, rare publications and special collections, as well as one of the world’s most extensive collections of art auction and sales catalogues, with more than 140,000 volumes dating from the mid-18th century to the present day.

Get a library card today: met.org/4vRxrqT

06/16/2026

For Knicks fan, Met volunteer, and photographer Sue Cassidy Clark, photography was a way to share her courtside perspective.

At age 90, when she realized it was time to part with her cameras, she chose to donate them to The Met’s Department of Photographic Conservation.

Watch the full video: met.org/4uAkFvW

06/09/2026

One more month to see "Raphael: Sublime Poetry!"

Join curator Carmen Bambach as she explores one of history's most beloved and influential artists.

See "Raphael: Sublime Poetry" on view through June 28 at The Met. Watch the full exhibition tour: met.org/49vHpFP
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Thanks to presenting sponsor Morgan Stanley.

06/08/2026

On this day in 1867, an architect who captivated the American imagination was born. For more than seventy-five years, Frank Lloyd Wright played a central role in the development of modern architecture, leaving a lasting mark on the American landscape.

The Frank Lloyd Wright Room was originally the living room of the Little family's summer home, designed and built between 1912 and 1914 in Wayzata, Minnesota.

Together, Wright and the Littles created an interior that is expansive yet cozy, angular yet welcoming, global in its influences yet deeply rooted in the local landscape.
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🏠 Frank Lloyd Wright (American, Richland Center, Wisconsin 1867–1959 Phoenix, Arizona), “Living Room from the Francis W. Little House,” 1912–14.