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Charles Ray sculpture Two Horses bas relief in Granite, The ten-by-fourteen-foot granite relief by the acclaimed artist portrays two horses in profile, one fully articulated and a second figure behind it that is partially seen, evoking a ghost-like presence
The Met Acquires Monumental Charles Ray Sculpture
The Met announced today the acquisition of the monumental sculptural relief Two Horses (2019) by American artist Charles Ray (b. 1953).
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Girault de Prangey: A Forgotten Pioneer of Photography
Despite the importance and innovation of this work, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey’s legacy has long been obscure.
Two met workers from the 1920s adjust the head of a sculpture
Rare Footage Inside The Met During the 1920s

 

Sumptuously shot in richly contrasting black and white, this lyrical series of vignettes provides a window into the hidden workings of the Museum. Employees punch time clocks;…

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David Hockney: An Evolution of Style
David Hockney's comprehensive retrospective at the Met showed what style means in modernism, and in particular what it means to Hockney, demonstrating the artist's originality as well as his…
Image of sculpture depicting human figure
Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara

The western Sahel—a vast region in Africa just south of the Sahara Desert that spans what is today Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, and was the birthplace of a succession of influential polities. Fueled…

Figure pendant, Tairona, Colombia, 10th–16th century. Gold
Exploring Artistic Treasures of Ancestral Caribbean Civilizations
Arte del mar: Artistic Exchange in the Caribbean presents a stunning narrative of creativity from the ancestral cultures that encircled the Caribbean Sea in the millennia before European…
Elephant clock gold
Mechanical Marvels: The Elephant Clock
The mahout (elephant keeper), the turbaned Ottoman warriors, and the crowning crescent all allude to the Eastern origins of the elephant.
Gerhard Emmoser (German, active 1556–84). Celestial globe with clockwork, 1579.
Making Marvels: Science and Splendor at the Courts of Europe
Making Marvels is the first exhibition in North America to highlight the important conjunction of art, science, and technology with entertainment and display that was essential to European court…
David Bailey (British, born 1938), Surreal, 1980.
Met Gala's 2020 Theme Revealed
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that The Costume Institute’s spring 2020 exhibition will be About Time: Fashion and Duration, on view from May 7 through September 7, 2020.
Adam Savage and Met Curator look at child's breastplate in glass case
Adam Savage Tours The Met's Last Knight Exhibit
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Curator-in-Charge of the Met Department of Arms and Armor Pierre Terjanian takes an absolutely out of his mind Adam Savage through the museum's historic and…
detail of St Michael Defeating the Devil by the Master of Belmonte
St Michael Defeats the devil in Renaissance Spain
Exploring the history of St Michael Defeating the Devil by the Master of Belmonte from 1450-1500.
detail shot of sculpture from The NewOnes, will free Us
Artist Interview—Wangechi Mutu: The NewOnes, will free Us
Go behind the scenes with contemporary artist Wangechi Mutu, who discusses the inspiration and making of The NewOnes, will free Us, an exhibition of four sculpture that inaugurate The Met's annual…
Leonardo, study for the unfinished Adoration of the Magi , ca. 1481.
Leonardo Da Vinci Rediscovered
In a world of da Vinci biographical sketches, Bambach's four-volume tome, Leonardo Da Vinci Rediscovered, is a masterpiece.
Jewish ceremonial wedding ring, from the Colmar Treasure, ca. 1300– before 1348.
Hidden for 500 Years, the Colmar Treasure Recalls the Persecution of Medieval Jewish People
The treasure is believed to have belonged to a family caught up in 14th-century violence that destroyed the thriving Jewish community of Colmar in Alsace. That anything at all survives is a miracle.…
Detail of carved chest, showing two knobs
Sculptor Robert Laurent’s Carved Chest: An Immigrant Story
In this video, listen to sculptor Robert Laurent (1890–1970) tell his story of emigrating from Brittany, France to New York City in the early twentieth century. His home movies, featured in this…