Visiting Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion?

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Identity

Exploring themes of identity, tradition, culture, sexuality and more through the lens of The Met collection.

Reflective mirror that says EVERYTHING WILL BE TAKEN AWAY.

Visualizing the Afterlife

Explore how artists across time and place have contemplated the afterlife.

“Part of what inspired the project was wanting to create something that really centered the brilliance and creativity of Black women writers and the transformative possibilities that come with reading.”

Join Dr. Denise M. Murrell, Merryl H. and James S. Tisch Curator at Large in The Met’s Director's Office, for a virtual tour of the groundbreaking exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.

collage of a harlem block with two buildings. A jazz band plays and children also play on the street.

The Sounds of The Block

How does the rediscovery of an audio component for Romare Bearden’s monumental collage transform our understanding of it?
Harlem Is Everywhere podcast artwork featuring William Henry Johnsons's "Street Life, Harlem

Harlem Is Everywhere, A New Podcast from The Met

How music, fashion, literature, and art shaped a modern Black identity during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond

Meet Civic Practice Partnership artist-in-residence Mei Lum, founder of the W.O.W. Project and the fifth-generation owner of her family's century-old porcelain business, the oldest operating store in Chinatown.

Join artists as they reflect on works in the exhibition Africa and Byzantium and make connections to their own artistic practices.

Five black men playing poker at a table with chips and cards. There is a window in the background.

Two Artists of the Great Depression

Learn more about the influential work of Dox Thrash and Charles Henry Alston during the unprecedented financial crisis.

During her residency at The Met, Alethea Pace is taking a process-centered approach and discovering what the work will be alongside her community.

For this MetLiveArts commission, Ballet Hispánico Artistic Director and CEO Eduardo Vilaro reacts to the ideas presented in the exhibit Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter with Buscando a Juan (“Looking for Juan”) and explores the “sancocho”—literally, mixed soup—of cultures and diasporas.

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