Perspectives

Mexican Prints at the Vanguard

Discover the rich history of printmaking in Mexico and the The Met’s collecting of these prints.

Mark McDonald September 16

A group rests and eats under the shade of a tree.

The World, and That’s All

“During my ten years of working as a guard at The Met, no picture rewarded my attention as consistently.”

Patrick Bringley September 3

Close up of ocean debris, including shells and rocks, against glittering black sand.

Returning Home

Writer and scholar Sven Spieker considers how student graffiti in Southeastern European elementary schools inspired Petrit Halilaj’s rooftop commission.

Sven Spieker August 23

The chest panel of an embroidered thobe. The embroidery accents the beige linen fabric with reds, greens, and blues in symmetrical, geometric patterns.

Tatreez in Time

The memory, meaning, and makers of Palestinian embroidery.

Wafa Ghnaim July 26

A composite image of a smiling man on the left and a multicolored painting with blue waves at the corner and a blue man fallling out of a yellow boat.

Artist Interview—Tenzing Rigdol Commission-Mandalas

Go behind the scenes with artist Tenzing Rigdol as he discusses his installation, Biography of a Thought, for the exhibition Mandalas: Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet, on view through January 12, 2025.

September 20

The Preservation of Time

Conserving Tacita Dean's The Book End of Time

Clare Manias September 18

Close up shot of a man in all black playing the violin.

J. S Bach: Partita No. 1 in B minor (Johnny Gandelsman, violin)

In 2023, violinist Johnny Gandelsman realized a longtime dream: performing J.S. Bach’s six Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, plus novel arrangements of the composer’s six cello suites, over a weeklong residency at The Met Cloisters.

September 16

An iPhone showing the Immaterial podcast art for Season 2 - white

5,000 years of art, one material at a time

A chalk-line illustration of a cast of characters from MetKids Microscope Season 2, featuring an art detective pointing her magnifying glass at a microscope, fingerprint ghosts, an assortment of bugs, and a girl resting on a magnifying glass zooming in on a bug-eaten leaf

The science behind the art (and the art behind the science!) at The Met.

Grid of nine black and white photographic portraits of artists

What artists see when they look at The Met

Harlem Is Everywhere podcast artwork featuring William Henry Johnsons's

A new podcast about the art and legacy of the Harlem Renaissance

Mexican Prints at the Vanguard

Discover the rich history of printmaking in Mexico and the The Met’s collecting of these prints.

Mark McDonald September 16

Dancers from Ballet Hispánico perform at the courtyard level of the Robert Lehmann Wing at The Met Fifth Avenue.

Ballet Hispánico: Buscando a Juan

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.

Sep 19, 2023

Cream plate with a rim painted with watery motifs in black, including swirls, registers of droplets, and waterlily vegetation.

The God from the Black Water

Maya artists mined a rich body of mythological lore to visualize their gods in imaginative ways.

Joanne Pillsbury and Laura Filloy Nadal Nov 14, 2022

An image of two young figures sitting on the branch of a birch tree. The top and bottom portions of the image are blurred, drawing attention to the in-focus face of the figure on the left.

“Birches” by Robert Frost: An Optical Poem, 2024 | From the Vaults

“When I see birches bend to left and right / Across the lines of straighter darker trees, / I like to think some boy’s been swinging them.” On April 7, 1955, Robert Frost delivered a poetry reading at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

March 26