Patrons promoted an American Renaissance to beautify the city with civic monuments, grand mansions, and public sculptures.
Led by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959), founder of the Prairie School, Chicago’s architects
Meryl Cates, coordinator of marketing for Met Museum Presents, highlights The Temple of Dendur’s relocation from Egypt to the Met, and how the beloved artifact inspired the upcoming opera production, I Was Here I Was I.
The performers, led by Kate Soper, Matt Marks, Mike Parker Harley, Courtney Orlando
São Paulo, 1893–São Paulo, 1945
fiction, Andrade conducted a number of studies on the history of Brazilian music and led
Leiden, 1871–The Hague, 1956
These efforts ultimately led to the construction in 1938 of the Kröller-Müller Museum
The Artist: Nicholas Hilliard, the son of Richard Hilliard, an Exeter goldsmith, made his earliest known miniatures in 1560. He served his apprenticeship as a goldsmith, beginning in 1562 with Robert Brandon, whose daughter Alice he was to marry in 1576
favor with Elizabeth I (1533–1603) from 1572, but her slowness in making payments led
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
The Arts of Africa team is led by Alisa LaGamma, Ceil and Michael E.
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
The design of The Michael C Rockefeller Wing was led by WHY Architecture, in collaboration
Ancient Afghanistan—at the crossroads of major trade routes and the focus of invasions by great powers and nomadic migrations—was home to some of the most complex, rich, and original civilizations on the continent of Asia. This exhibition celebrates the unique role of Afghanistan as a center for both the reception of diverse cultural elements and the creation of original styles of art that combine multiple stylistic materials.
Exploration of the area led to the excavation of Aï Khanum by French archaeologists
Sean Connelly’s Spheric Oceania offers an alternative cartography, mapping Oceania as a cosmic container of ancestral connection.
Two renowned Pacific scholars Albert Wendt and Epeli Hau‘ofa led the charge in insisting
The New York Dutch Room is a main chamber, or groote kaner in Dutch, and comes from a house built in 1751 for Daniel Pieter Winne, whose ancestors moved to Rensselaerswyck from Flanders via Curacao in 1643.
A door within the stair structure led to the cellar.
