Art has a unique way of bringing complicated facts to life. What can it tell us about the multiple histories of two continents over several centuries? Visit the American Wing.
Too often those in positions of power have only included others who look, live, love
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Henceforth, as one observer put it, the art of tapestries "will have to be given
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
The donors and The Met have agreed that these carefully preserved instruments must
“I wanted to be that commanding huntress, to live among a fleet of adoring nymphs and hounds and transform any man who crossed me.”
As my wife, a poet, put it: “Athena and all those male gods are like, ‘We have to
The exhibition features jars, lids, bowls, floral collars, linen sheets, and bandages that were used at the pharaoh’s mummification and the rites associated with his burial, as well as related objects such as a sculpted head of the youthful Tutankhamun Although Historical Often
He also suggested that the animal bones, pottery, and collars might have come from
What does the androgynous depiction of Hatshepsut—and its subsequent destruction—tell us about the role of gender in Ancient Egypt?
Because, you know, as an Egyptian, I should have known, but I think this also speaks
Poussin brought a new intellectual rigor to the classical impulse in art, as well as a unique, somewhat reticent poetry.
systems of belief—pagan, Jewish, Christian, Stoic, pantheistic—Poussin seems to have
They have large eyes with inlaid pupils, only one of which survives intact.
The author and illustrator John Jennings discusses Seneca Village, Afrofuturism, and writing The Met’s first graphic novella.
All three of these figures are Black comic-book characters that have experienced
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
So, he’s holding a copper plate that would have been covered in a waxy kind of
