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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, sprawls across the Fifth Avenue location’s Medieval, Byzantine, and Lehman galleries and its Anna…

"What can an audience tell the performer?"

William Wegman on his video work from 1970–1999 William Wegman (American, born 1943). Video work, 1970–1999. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New…

"How does a foreigner define America?": Alyce Englund on Charles-Honoré Lannuier's pier table

For MetCollects, assistant curator of American decorative arts Alyce Englund discusses the…

The Met Fifth Avenue: Medieval, Byzantine, Lehman Galleries

Gallery views of The Costume Institute's spring 2018 exhibition, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, narrated…

The vitality and inventiveness of artists in 18th-century New Spain (Mexico) is the focus of the exhibition Painted in Mexico, 1700–1790: Pinxit Mexici, opening April 24…

Dr. Elizabeth Marlowe and Dr. Beth Harris discuss the attribution of the Met's Bronze statue of the emperor Trebonianus Gallus, 251-53 C.E.

The palace of Versailles has attracted travelers since it was transformed under the direction of the Sun King, Louis XIV (1638–1715), from a simple hunting lodge into one of the most magnificent…