Perspectives

realistic painting of a white women with reddish hair sleeping in a curled up position on a large comfortable looking surface that has maroon red and brown clothe on it. The women is wearing a broad orange dress that is fairly transparent so the outline of her body is prominent. Behind her is a wall and behind that wall is a sunlit reflective body of water with a clear sky. A bright red flower creeps above the wall right above her.

The Fascination of Flaming June

Discover the magnetism of this iconic painting that nearly fell into obscurity.

Alison Hokanson August 23

A Self-Portrait painting by the African American Painter Horace Pippin. A Black man sits against a blue background from his shoulders up looking directly towards us with deep brown eyes. He is wearing a black suit, off-white yellowish suit, and a striped tie with brown and a golden-mustard yellow.

Considering Horace Pippin

How has art history overlooked the crucial role disability played in Pippin's painting?

Bryan Martin July 26

painting of a woman in a white dress wearing a broad hat sitting with a book with ribbon covering her face

The Portraits of Volker Hermes

The artist behind a series of popular photocollages discusses the signs and symbols of portraiture.

Christopher Alessandrini June 30

Animation of five Roblox characters standing in The Met in front of two sculptures with the words The Met Replica.

Visit The Met, Enter the Metaverse: Introducing Replica

The Met meets Roblox in a new digital experience.

August 3

Illustrated drum sticks play atop a DIY drum made of a tin can decorated with colorful cut paper shapes; wavy arrows like sound waves point to the drum

What Does Sound Look Like?

Make an instrument and a special tool to visualize sound.

July 5

Split image of Emma Scully as a child and as an adult looking at Van Gogh paintings at The Met

Emma and the Van Gogh Paintings

Follow Emma Scully through time as she encounters Van Gogh.

August 31

Vincent Van Gogh’s Cypresses hangs on a wall in a wooden frame. The painting depicts tall trees on the left side with a swirling sky behind.

Van Gogh’s Materials and Process

Gain a deeper understanding of Van Gogh’s artistic process through new discoveries from recent technical studies of Wheat Field with Cypresses and Cypresses in The Met collection. Hear from Museum experts about how these examinations have enriched our understanding of Van Gogh’s materials and process and shed light on his artistic vision.

Silvia A. Centeno and Charlotte Hale August 21

The Transforming Book

Conservation of a “Blow Book”

Lydia Aikenhead August 16

A chalk-line illustration of a cast of characters from MetKids Microscope Season 2, featuring an art detective pointing her magnifying glass at a microscope, fingerprint ghosts, an assortment of bugs, and a girl resting on a magnifying glass zooming in on a bug-eaten leaf

The science behind the art (and the art behind the science!) at The Met.

Grid of nine black and white photographic portraits of artists

What artists see when they look at The Met

A small bronze sculpture of a seated boy pulling a thorn from the bottom of his foot appears set against a bright yellow ovular spotlight shape in the background.

One Met Icon, New Perspectives

Cellphone showing a red square that reads Frame Of Mind. There is a calm ocean landscape in the background.

An Art & Wellness Podcast

Medium frame of a large stone sculpture carved with the likeness of a seated Buddha surrounded by worshippers.

Exhibition Tour—Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE

Explore Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE in this virtual tour of the exhibition.

August 3

A crowd of people to the left hold up a sign while a shirtless man holds his left hand up as in an oratory gesture

Lo Tatou Seiana: Our Flowering, Our Time

Dan Taulapapa McMullin muses on colonialism, queer mythologies, and activism in the Pacific Islands.

Dan Taulapapa McMullin June 21

The screen depicts four people on a video call with each other.

Art and Activism: Environmental Protection and Contemporary Indigenous Art

Join featured artists and the curator of the exhibitions “Water Memories” and “Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection” for a conversation exploring the significance of water to diverse Indigenous peoples and Nations in the United States, as expressed through historical, modern, and contemporary art. Delve into the artists’ artistic processes while examining the ongoing work to protect water and land, aesthetic activism, and the unique challenges contemporary Indigenous artist-activists face.

June 12

Detail of the pamphlet for the Act Up Art Box with the text

A Short History of the ACT UP Art Box

"ACT UP felt like a collision of creativity, political fervor, and justifiable anger..."

Peter Antony June 7

Two construction workers onsite installing the Ming Garden in Astor Court.

Ming Garden, 1983 | From the Vaults

This short film from 1983 documents the installation of a Ming-style garden courtyard at The Met, the first permanent cultural exchange between the United States and the People’s Republic of China.

May 16