Tuesday, September 19th, 2017

“Pure Sculptural Energy”: Seeing Rodin, Reading Steinberg

As the Met’s centennial Rodin exhibition opens, Leo Steinberg’s great essay from the 1960s is recalled

House of Worth, tea gown, blue cut velvet on a green satin ground, Valenciennes lace, circa 1897. © Stéphane Piera/Galliera/Roger-Viollet.
Friday, October 7th, 2016

How To Dress The Guermantes Way: “Proust’s Muse” at FIT

Proust’s Muse, The Countess Greffulhe is on view through January 7

Friday, March 18th, 2016

The Case For Understatement

With “Unfinished” and “Nasreen Mohamedi”, Met Breuer opens its brutalist walkway to the public today.

Monday, February 29th, 2016

Walks on the Wild Side: Female Empowerment and a Right Royal Faux Pas

Marie Antoinette and Vigée Le Brun say “take a hike” to their critics

Monday, November 2nd, 2015

Tell Me: with Hiba Schahbaz

Schahbaz discusses her affection for Indo-Persian miniatures and its influence in her work.

Pablo Picasso, Erotic Scene (La Douceur), 1903. Oil on canvas, 27-5/8 x 21-7/8 inches. Metropolitan Museum of Art. © 2015 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Friday, June 12th, 2015

A Sly Wit: Piotr Uklanski at the Met

two exhibitions: his photography and his selection of works in the museum

Friday, June 5th, 2015

Tell Me: with Daniel Herr

The painter talks about the continuing importance of one of the 20th century’s most influential artists.

Wednesday, May 27th, 2015

Naked City: Holly Zausner at Postmasters

The artist’s new video shows the city emptied, but nonetheless full of majesty.

Friday, February 20th, 2015

Tell Me: with Eric Sutphin

The first in a new series of features of two people taking about one artwork in person.

lWalter Ledtke. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015

Tribute: Walter Liedtke, Curator of Dutch and Flemish painting at the Met

He was the quintessence of a gentleman