Identity

“Part of what inspired the project was wanting to create something that really centered the brilliance and creativity of Black women writers and the transformative possibilities that come with reading.”

Join Dr. Denise M. Murrell, Merryl H. and James S. Tisch Curator at Large in The Met’s Director's Office, for a virtual tour of the groundbreaking exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.

Meet Civic Practice Partnership artist-in-residence Mei Lum, founder of the W.O.W. Project and the fifth-generation owner of her family's century-old porcelain business, the oldest operating store in Chinatown.

Join artists as they reflect on works in the exhibition Africa and Byzantium and make connections to their own artistic practices.

During her residency at The Met, Alethea Pace is taking a process-centered approach and discovering what the work will be alongside her community.

For this MetLiveArts commission, Ballet Hispánico Artistic Director and CEO Eduardo Vilaro reacts to the ideas presented in the exhibit Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter with Buscando a Juan (“Looking for Juan”) and explores the “sancocho”—literally, mixed soup—of cultures and diasporas.