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…
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In this video, Keith Christiansen, John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of the Department of European Paintings, provides an overview of the Skylights Project—in which the skylights that admit natural…
The Costume Institute's spring 2018 exhibition will feature a dialogue between fashion and medieval art from The Met collection to examine fashion's ongoing engagement with the devotional…
Jizō Bosatsu, late 12th–mid-13th century (Kamakura period, Japan), wood with lacquer, gold leaf, cutout gold foil decoration, and color, 188.6 cm high (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Suspended from the ceiling, Seven ponds and a few raindrops is composed of stainless steel elements that have been molded into a series of sensual, curved, amoeba-like forms covered in tamarind-…
Watch a video preview of the exhibition Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now), on view at The Met Breuer from March 21 through July 22, 2018.
Watch a video that reveals the findings of a technical examination conducted by The Met's conservation team on Thomas Cole's The Oxbow (1836) and The Course of Empire: The…
Before/On/After: William Wegman and California Conceptualism
At The Met Fifth Avenue
January 17–July 15,…
