The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
In these works his colors have narrowed to neutral grays, blues, and rusts, or to
the exterior of the rest is highly polished, the rough interior of these rings have
While the general form of the rest appears to have been turned on a lathe, the uneven
Hear from barber Joshua Livingston about the power of community spaces to support connection and well-being, whether when visiting an art museum or getting a haircut.
I was feeling like I didn’t have the resources available to me to make it work.
Discover the fascinating history behind these enigmatic objects.
Such intermediaries have always existed at the interface between the divine and the
Cameos were, and still are, especially prized when the artist manipulated the strata of the stone in relation to the design, exploring the stone’s depths to enhance its visual impact.
The practice seems to have been rooted in the ancient Mesopotamian stones that were
Internships for graduate students in The Met’s Department of Objects Conservation, a dynamic and diverse department with over twenty-five full-time conservators. Interns work alongside and learn from conservators under whose supervision they carry out in-depth treatment on a broad range of materials. These internships are unpaid.
Program Information Conservation training programs around the world have various
Photographer Harvey Wang describes capturing a dialogue between space, art, and visitors in The Met’s Engelhart Court.
Skip to main content I grew up in New York City, in Southeast Queens, and I would have
The exhibition „Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures,“ the first of its kind, features nearly 50 of these tiny treasures.
Buy Now Small in scale, yet teeming with life, miniature boxwood carvings have
Teaching artist Laurie Murphy discusses the Copyist Program at The Met, in which artists can apply to work directly from their artistic predecessors while in the Museum’s galleries.
Since then, countless numbers of copyists have taken personal journeys while working
