Alethea Pace: between wave and water | Civic Practice Partnership 2023–2025“How do we reconcile with what has happened in order to chart a different course and move towards liberation?” During her CPP artist residency, Alethea Pace collaborated alongside her community to reclaim the history of the Enslaved African Burial Ground in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx. Her work centers on deep listening, addresses the enduring impact of history, and urges the acknowledgment and red...
The Leonard A. Lauder Distinguished Scholar Lecture—Navigating Modernism: Beauford Delaney 1940–1965Join Adrienne Childs as she charts American painter Beauford Delaney’s humanist vision, love of color, and evolving visual languages that navigated the aesthetics and cultures of transatlantic modernism. Delaney spent most of his artistic career between New York and Paris, arguably the most significant centers of modern art in the twentieth century. Immersed in these dynamic art wo...
The intertwining melodies of the Ockeghem's "Missa Prolationum" with The Clarion ChoirWatch the full-length video: https://youtu.be/nJwFJc0rZH8 Subscribe for new content from The Met: https://www.youtube.com/user/metmuseum #TheMet #Art #TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt #Museum © 2025 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Talk—Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of NatureJoin Alison Hokanson and Joanna Seidenstein, curators of Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/caspar-david-friedrich-the-soul-of-nature, to gain a deeper understanding of the exhibition. Featuring oil paintings, finished drawings, and working sketches from every phase of the artist’s career, along with select examples by his contemporaries, the exhibition illuminates how Friedrich devel...
The Atelier with Alina Cho: Thom BrowneJoin journalist Alina Cho for a conversation with fashion designer Thom Browne, whose work is widely recognized for challenging and modernizing today’s uniform, with designs rooted in quality craftsmanship and precise tailoring. Learn about his role as Chairman of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the principles that guide his own creative practice, and his hopes for the American fashion industry. Subscribe for new content from The Met...
In honor of Women's History Month, Scraps, 1973 | From the VaultsPhotographed in Ahmedabad, India, this short film follows a Dalit woman step by step as she makes a bean-bag parrot from fabric scraps and other discarded materials scavenged from trash receptacles and the city’s streets. Tender and restrained, this clear-eyed portrait of individuals in a community is also a poignant testament to the power of art-making even in some of the most adverse conditions. The director Yvonne Han...
In honor of Women's History Month, Alice Neel: They Are Their Own Gifts, 1978 | From the VaultsA self-proclaimed “collector of souls,” the American painter Alice Neel (1900–1984) is known today for her powerful, psychologically rich portraiture. She depicted a wide range of subjects, from her family and friends to prominent critics, artists, activists, and strangers she met on the street. In this rarely seen documentary, Neel’s signature candor and wit are on full display. Provid...
Johannes Ockeghem: Missa prolationum (The Clarion Choir and Orchestra) | MetLiveArtsSacred and secular, polite and bawdy, the works of composer Johannes Ockeghem changed the course of European music forever, helping to cement the Franco-Flemish school of composition that survived well into the seveneenth century. To celebrate Ockeghem’s six hundredth birthday (give or take—no one actually knows when he was born!), New York’s own Clarion Choir and Orchestra took to the galleries at ...
The American Wing at 100: Winslow Homer's The Gulf StreamSubscribe for new content from The Met: https://www.youtube.com/user/metmuseum #TheMet #Art #TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt #Museum © 2025 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Scraps, 1973 | From the VaultsPhotographed in Ahmedabad, India, this short film follows a Dalit woman step by step as she makes a bean-bag parrot from fabric scraps and other discarded materials scavenged from trash receptacles and the city’s streets. Tender and restrained, this clear-eyed portrait of individuals in a community is also a poignant testament to the power of art-making even in some of the most adverse conditions. The director Yvonne Hannemann received a Fulbright Grant to...
How the "Sisterhood" photograph came to inspire the Free Black Women's LibraryArchival Images: "June Jordan, on far right, with Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Nana Maynard, Ntozake Shange, Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor and others," 1977. Schlesinger Library, Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Subscribe for new content from The Met: https://www.youtube.com/user/metmuseum #TheMet #Art #TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt #Museum © 2025 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Closely examine "The Monk by The Sea" by Caspar David Friedrich, on view now at The Met.Subscribe for new content from The Met: https://www.youtube.com/user/metmuseum #TheMet #Art #TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt #Museum © 2025 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Annual South and Southeast Asian Art LectureJoin us to learn how the eminent art historian A.K. Coomaraswamy, through his vast study of Sri Lankan ornament, art, and aesthetics, challenged the division between fine arts and crafts. Discover how Coomaraswamy developed a pioneering perspective that had a lasting impact on twentieth-century South Asian art history and beyond. This lecture is made possible by the generous support of Jeff Soref and Paul Lombardi. Subscribe for new content f...
The Free Black Women's Library: Pretty Little Brick | Civic Practice Partnership 2023–2025During her Civic Practice Partnership residency, artist OlaRonke Akinmowo challenged herself to create a writers collective as an expansion of the mission of The Free Black Women’s Library. Drawing inspiration from a photo of “The Sisterhood”—a 1970s writing group whose members included Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Ntozake Shange—she founded Obsidian, a collective of contemporary Bla...
"Go where it is right, stop when one must." - Tong Yang-TzeSubscribe for new content from The Met: https://www.youtube.com/user/metmuseum #TheMet #Art #TheMetropolitanMuseumofArt #Museum © 2025 The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In honor of Women's History Month, watch Louise Nevelson in Process, 1977 | From the VaultsThe artist Louise Nevelson (1899–1988) was known for her elaborate and monumental sculptures made of found materials such as discarded wood and scrap metal. She was in her forties before she sold a work to anyone other than a fellow artist, and in her sixties before the press conceded her stature as one of America's foremost sculptors. This film offers a window into Nevelson’s creative process,...
CRONOLOGICO
AUTORI POST
