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Step Into a Mandala at The Met
One of the most beautiful aspects of Buddhist art is how intertwined an image is with its philosophical meaning, giving us a deeper understanding of the world around us.
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Met Museum Unveils Design for New Modern and Contemporary Art Wing
Mexican architect Frida Escobedo’s vision for the Tang Wing will expand the museum’s exhibition spaces by nearly 50%.
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Classic Calligraphy Meets Contemporary Gesture at The Met
Tong Yang-Tze’s “Dialogue” (2024) in the museum’s Great Hall engages with the ancient art form on a monumental level.
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600+ Works by Met Workers Go on View in Largest-Ever Staff Show
The exhibition is part of a biannual Met tradition since 1935.
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An Indigenous Modernist Artist Finally Gets Her Due
An exhibition at The Met celebrates the work of self-taught artist Mary Sully, who neither exhibited nor profited from her work during her lifetime.
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Visions of a Future Past
Architect Paul Rudolph’s unbuilt projects live on as unborn dreams, specters of progress that, even when confined to vellum, widen our vision.
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Two Exhibitions at The Met Send a Single Message: Vote!
Jesse Krimes’s rebuke of the US justice system and Anastasia Samoylova’s uncanny images of Florida stir a visceral response in an election defined by cognitive dissonance.
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Met Museum Show Will Put the Spotlight on Black Menswear
Superfine: Tailoring Black Style opens on May 10 as the museum’s first menswear exhibition in over two decades.
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14 Repatriated Yemeni Antiquities Relocated to The Met
The stone and bronze sculptures, recently returned to Yemen from a private collection, are on loan to the museum for research and safekeeping.
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Lee Bul’s Synthetic Angels of History
Her sculptures for The Met’s facade commission look like they’ve always been there, Frankensteined in the bowels of the museum’s ethnographic collections.
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Met Museum Attracted 5.5M Visitors Last Year in Pandemic Rebound
BIPOC individuals comprised just over half of The Met’s domestic visitors, the highest-ever percentage for the Manhattan institution.
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How Commercial Photography Sold Modernism
The Real Thing at the Met Museum shows that the advertising tactics of commercial studios were in dialogue with avant-garde art in the 1920 and ’30s.