Former Slifka Fellow Christine Seidel introduces each member of the Jabach family, the subject of the Museum’s recently acquired portrait by Charles Le Brun.
Charles Wrightsman Gift, 2014 (2014.250) «In the few months that have passed since
The account of the origins of art is a very long one marked less by change than consistency.
The first human artistic representations, markings with ground red ocher, seem to have
The Museum is donating PPE to healthcare workers and sharing our passion for art online.
we experience this most challenging and uncertain time, The Met community and I have
Both Hindustani and Karnatak music use the system of ragas—sets of pitches and small motives for melody construction—and tala for rhythm.
North India and Karnatak music of South India, although many regions of India also have
This loan exhibition of Japanese bamboo art will showcase more than 80 works created by accomplished artists from the late 19th century to the present.
baskets and sculptures created by accomplished artists, including all six masters who have
Keith Christiansen, John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of the Department of European Paintings, introduces Charles Le Brun’s monumental portrait of Everhard Jabach and his family.
Charles Wrightsman Gift, 2014 (2014.250) «Ever wonder what it would have been like
In July 2023 MetLiveArts welcomed three-time GRAMMY®-winning jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant for an exclusive recording session in the Unicorn Tapestries Room at The Met Cloisters
For Salvant, also a skilled textile artist, the tapestries have been a source of
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
But her presence in the artist’s studio must have had a profound impact all the
The Artist: Ambrosius Benson is most noted as a North Italian painter who went to study and work in Bruges. As a result, his works are a unique conflation of Netherlandish and Italian Renaissance styles
painters’ guild.[1] Nothing is known of his life before this date, but he might have
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style over three hundred years through the concept of dandyism.
Black identity formation in the Atlantic diaspora and the ways Black designers have
