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The Met’s home for deep dives on art, interviews, personal essays, scientific discoveries, and more.
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Go behind the scenes at The Met as curator Alyce Englund and conservator Marijn Manuels explore the history of a slab table from Philadelphia.
November 7
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Go behind the scenes with Jesse Krimes as he discusses his inspiration and artistic process for his works in the exhibition Jesse Krimes: Corrections, on view at The Met through July 13, 2025.
October 31
Four years after This Is America took its first steps, Johnny Gandelsman brings the full anthology to the American Wing’s galleries.
Emery Kerekes
November 1
"I see vibrant thoughts as clouds and feel volatile emotions as waves."
Kurt Behrendt
October 7
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For writer Amor Towles, The Met is not just one museum, but many.
October 7
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Considering the Philadelphia Table
Sounds of America
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Artist Interview — Jesse Krimes: Corrections | Met Exhibitions
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Exhibition Tour— Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 | Met Exhibitions
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Artist Interview—The Genesis Facade Commission: Lee Bul, Long Tail Halo
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BONUS SCENE—Petrit Halilaj and architect, Frida Escobedo discuss the Roof Garden Commission: Abetare
The Art of Dying
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Exhibition Tour–Look Again: European Paintings 1300-1800
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What artists see when they look at The Met
5,000 years of art, one material at a time
Films from the Museum’s extensive moving-image archive
Native American and Indigenous Heritage
These stories celebrate the cultural achievements of Native American, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian artists.
Will Wilson's photography, rooted in his upbringing on the Navajo Nation, intertwines the past, present, and future of Indigenous cultural practices.
Patricia Marroquin Norby
January 25
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Delve into the spirit of Pueblo pottery and hear from community leaders, curators, artists, and collaborators on The Met’s first-ever, community-curated Native American exhibition, Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery.
October 13, 2023
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Join featured artists and the curator of the exhibitions “Water Memories” and “Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection” for a conversation exploring the significance of water to diverse Indigenous peoples and Nations in the United States, as expressed through historical, modern, and contemporary art. Delve into the artists’ artistic processes while examining the ongoing work to protect water and land, aesthetic activism, and the unique challenges contemporary Indigenous artist-activists face.
June 12, 2023
From the Archives
Articles, images, and film from The Met's 150-year history.
A brief history of The Met’s artist obituary scrapbooks.
James Moske
October 16
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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
How does the rediscovery of an audio component for Romare Bearden’s monumental collage transform our understanding of it?
Lauren Rosati
February 22
In Circulation
Read articles and the latest news about The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Libraries' collections, activities, and research related to the history of art.
A brief history of The Met’s artist obituary scrapbooks.
James Moske
October 16
Conserving Tacita Dean's The Book End of Time
Clare Manias
September 18
Honoring fashion elders in The Costume Institute Library
Julie Lê
August 21