The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Highlights of volume 53 include an exquisite pair of 17th-century Chinese birthday gift
Gift of John Stewart Kennedy, 1897 (97.34) Artistic License An immigrant to the
Curator Jason Sun celebrates the Year of the Horse.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Dillon Fund Gift, 1977 (1977.78
A 2017–18 display at The Met commemorated the one hundredth anniversary of the acquisition of the ancient Egyptian hippo by juxtaposing it with an earthenware hippo made about four thousand years later by the American artist Carl Walters.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Friends of the American Wing Gift
Curator Marsha Hill introduces the newly installed galleries for Egyptian Ptolemaic art and discusses the work behind evoking two vantage points in the display.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1938
How Juan Gris’s unorthodox techniques fool and delight the eye
Lauder Cubist Collection, Gift of Leonard A.
French, Wheelock Whitney, nature
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Whitney Collection, Gift of Wheelock
View an assortment of images of fashion ensembles presented in the exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Virgil Abloh c/o Off-White™, 2018
Upon arrival at the Museum, this painting‘s paper support was brittle and delaminating from the wooden panel: a direct consequence of being kept in an uncontrolled environment for many years.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, 2009 Benefit Fund, Hester Diamond Gift
The Modern Circle brings together patrons and collectors in support of the department.
Robert Kaplan of the exhibition, Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan-Levi Gift
