Meet the Artist—The Roof Garden Commission: Jennie C. Jones, Ensemble | Met ExhibitionsGo behind the scenes with Jennie C. Jones discussing the 2025 Roof Garden Commission at The Met, Ensemble, on view through October 19, 2025. Only her second outdoor sculptural installation, the project explores the sonic potential of stringed instruments as well as their formal possibilities. In the artist's unique response to modernism, these acoustic sculptures propose the line of the string as a ...
Todd Oldham's moment of arrival in New York CitySubscribe for new content from The Met: https://www.youtube.com/user/metmuseum #TheMet #Art #TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt #Museum © 2025 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Celebrate Earth Day and National Poetry Month with W. H. Auden’s poem “Woods” #ArtForAHealthyPlanetOn February 23, 1956, renowned poet W. H. Auden delivered a poetry reading at The Met, including his powerful ode to nature, “Woods”—a heartfelt plea for conservation amid rapid deforestation. This Earth Day, Auden’s message resonates more clearly than ever. Experience his words brought to life through a visual poem pairing his original recitation with artworks from The Met
Impact and Articulation: Calligraphy as Language and FormJoin Met curators and a Chinese language expert as they discuss the expanded role of calligraphy as a written language, political tool, and source for abstraction. Enjoy a series of presentations that offer new perspectives about this artform, spanning centuries and conceptual frameworks. Select featured objects: All works by Tong © At Ease Studio. Willem de Kooning. “Pirate (Untitled II),“ 1981. Oil on canvas, 7 ft. 4 in. ...
Behind the Scenes: Curating “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” with Monica L. MillerMark your calendars–“Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” opens in less than a month!
Annual South and Southeast Asian Art LectureJoin us to learn how the eminent art historian A.K. Coomaraswamy, through his vast study of Sri Lankan ornament, art, and aesthetics, challenged the division between fine arts and crafts. Discover how Coomaraswamy developed a pioneering perspective that had a lasting impact on twentieth-century South Asian art history and beyond. This lecture is made possible by the generous support of Jeff Soref and Paul Lombardi. Subscribe for new content f...
Bronx-based choreographer Alethea Pace honors ancestral memories in her new danceSubscribe for new content from The Met: https://www.youtube.com/user/metmuseum #TheMet #Art #TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt #Museum © 2025 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tintypes from the William L. Schaeffer Collection | Met ExhibitionsJoin Jeff Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge of Photographs, for a closer look at the extraordinary group of tintypes from the William L. Schaeffer Collection featured in the exhibition, The New Art: American Photography, 1839-1910, on view through July 20, 2025 at The Met Fifth Avenue. Learn more about the exhibition: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-new-art-american-photography-1839-1910 Produc...
Exhibition Tour—Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie | Met ExhibitionsJoin Iris Moon, Associate Curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts along with artist Patty Chang, Professor of Art, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, to virtually explore Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue through August 17, 2025. The exhibition radically reimagines the story of European porcelain through a f...
Assembling a Delftware flower pyramid | Monstrous Beauty | Met ExhibitionsMultiple, separately fired components must be carefully stacked to assemble this monumental seventeenth-century ceramic vase for cut flowers. Video courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, produced in association with the exhibition, Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie, on view at The Met from March 25–August 17, 2025. Learn more about the exhibition: https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibi...
Discover the detailed process behind Jesse Krimes' one-of-a-kind soap images. On view till July 13.Photography has played a key role in structuring systems of power in society, including those related to crime and punishment. This exhibition presents immersive contemporary installations by the artist Jesse Krimes (American, b. 1982) alongside nineteenth-century photographs from The Met collection by the French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon, who developed the first modern system of cri...
Architectural Imagination: A Conversation on Materialized SpaceJoin us for a night of discovery as we examine how civic planning and ideas of utopia meet the works of architectural imagination within the built environment, as well as on television and film. Learn behind- the-scenes insight about the set design of the Disney+ series Loki and its deep connection to the work of Paul Rudolph. In celebration of the exhibition Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph, enjoy a panel...
The Leonard A. Lauder Distinguished Scholar Lecture—Navigating Modernism: Beauford Delaney 1940–1965Join Adrienne Childs as she charts American painter Beauford Delaney’s humanist vision, love of color, and evolving visual languages that navigated the aesthetics and cultures of transatlantic modernism. Delaney spent most of his artistic career between New York and Paris, arguably the most significant centers of modern art in the twentieth century. Immersed in these dynamic art wo...
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