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| Celebrating Disability at The Met |
| To celebrate Disability Pride Month, we're pleased to present a few highlights from our ongoing social media project #MetAccess. This monthly feature, which debuted in July 2020 in honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, welcomes Disabled and Deaf artists to reflect on a specific work from The Met collection that sparks their curiosity or inspires them. Learn more →
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| Chroma AR Experience |
| The Chroma AR experience allows smartphone users to virtually recreate an ancient Greek sculpture of a sphinx in full color, in their own space, comparing the vivid reconstruction and as it looks today. Chroma AR was created in association with the exhibition Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color, on view at The Met starting July 5, 2022. Start the AR experience → |
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| Queer New York: A Virtual Walking Tour |
| Join the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project and The Met to learn about queer artists who have called the city home. Read now → |
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| Filming Berenice Abbott |
| Filmmakers Martha Wheelock and Kay Weaver discuss their memories of living and working with the legendary photographer. Read now →
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| Miguel Luciano's Cemí-Libre |
| Celebrate Taíno culture, the legacy of the Young Lords, and the El Barrio community with Miguel Luciano, Civic Practice Partnership Artist in Residence (2017–2021). Watch now → |
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| Juneteenth with Cave Canem at The Met |
| Celebrate Black creative expression with two new poems responding to works in the collection. Read now → |
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| Exhibition Highlights |
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| See all current exhibitions → |
For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color, Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents, Shell and Resin: Korean Mother-of-Pearl and Lacquer, Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection, Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection, Water Memories, Embracing Color: Enamel in Chinese Decorative Arts, 1300–1900, A Passion for Jade: The Bishop Collection, Bernd & Hilla Becher, and
Van Gogh, Mondrian, and Munch: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints.
The Civic Practice Project is made possible by The William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust.
Your support allows the Museum to collect, conserve, and present 5,000 years of world art. Donate now.
Comments are welcome at [email protected].
Images: Berenice Abbott (American, 1898–1991). West Street, 1936. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Jane and Mark Ciabattari, 2000 (2000.593). © Berenice Abbott / Commerce Graphics Ltd. Inc. | Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910). The Gulf Stream (detail), 1899. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1906 (06.1234) | Trefoil-shaped covered box with decoration of chrysanthemums (detail), ca. 12th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Fletcher Fund, 1925 (25.215.41a, b) | Meisen Kimono with Water Droplets. Shōwa period (1926–89), ca. 1930s. Promised Gift of John C. Weber | Tsimshian artist. Headdress frontlet. British Columbia, ca. 1820–40. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection of Native American Art, Promised Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker. Native Perspectives: Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830–1902). The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak (detail), 1863. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1907 (07.123) | © Cara Romero (Native American (Chemehuevi), born 1977). Water Memory (detail), 2021. | Covered box with hibiscuses and grape vines (detail). China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), mid-15th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Promised Gift of Clara and Theodore Wang | Pillow in the shape of an infant boy (清 翡翠孩儿枕). Chinese, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), 18th–19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902 | Bernd and Hilla Becher, Gravel Plants, 1988–2001. Courtesy The Walther Collection. © Estate Bernd & Hilla Becher, represented by Max Becher | Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann, Reconstruction of marble finial in the form of a sphinx (detail), 2022. Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung (Liebieghaus Polychromy Research Project), Frankfurt am Main; original: Greece, ca. 530 B.C. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (11.185d, x) | Vincent van Gogh, Burning Weeds (detail), ca. mid-July 1883. Purchase, Fletcher Fund, William R. Drexler Sr. and Violet Drexler Bequest, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, and The Derald H. Ruttenberg Foundation, in honor of Nadine M. Orenstein and Charles and Jessie Price Gifts, 2021 (2021.242) |
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