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5 Powerful Stories
on Black Art History
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Watch five stories of Black art, culture, and history interwoven
throughout The Met collection. Watch now →
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"Harlem on
Whose Mind?": The Met and Civil Rights
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Kelly Baum, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Curator,
Department of Modern and Contemporary Art; Maricelle Robles, Former
Educator in Charge, Public Programs and Engagement, Education Department;
and Sylvia Yount, Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge, The American
Wing recount and reflect on the complicated legacy of the 1969 Met
exhibition Harlem on My
Mind. Read now →
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Close Look: Inside
the Studio
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Decoding the symbolism of Kerry James Marshall's
2014 painting Untitled (Studio). Read now →
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Black Art and
Artists Matter: Collection Assessment and Expansion in Watson Library
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Expanding narratives and diversifying Thomas J. Watson
Library's collections are principles entrenched in Watson's collection
development practice. Increasing African American representation in the
Museum collection and exhibitions has been paralleled, if not surpassed, in
the libraries' holdings. Read now →
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Now on view
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Goya's Graphic
Imagination
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Through May 2, 2021
The Met Fifth Avenue
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Regarded as one of the most remarkable artists from the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Francisco Goya (1746–1828) is
renowned for his prolific activity as a draftsman and printmaker, producing
about nine hundred drawings and three hundred prints during his long
career. Through his drawings and prints, he expressed his political
liberalism, criticism of superstition, and distaste for intellectual
oppression in unique and compelling ways. Take a virtual tour →
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Selections from the Department of Drawings and
Prints: New York Inspired
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Through April 26, 2021
The Met Fifth Avenue
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The Department of Drawings and Prints boasts more than one
million drawings, prints, and illustrated books made in Europe and the
Americas from around 1400 to the present day. Because of their number and
sensitivity to light, the works can only be exhibited for a limited
period and are usually housed in on-site storage facilities. To highlight
the vast range of works on paper, the department organizes four rotations
a year in the Robert Wood Johnson, Jr. Gallery. Learn more →
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For more information about the exhibitions, including
sponsorship credits, see Goya's Graphic
Imagination and Selections from the
Department of Drawings and Prints: New York Inspired.
Your support allows the Museum to collect, conserve, and present 5,000
years of world art. Donate now.
Comments are welcome at metmuseum_newsletter@metmuseum.org.
Images: Kerry James Marshall (American, born 1955). Untitled (Studio), 2014.
Acrylic on PVC panels, 83 ¼ × 119 ¼ in. (211.6 × 302.9 cm).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Jacques and
Natasha Gelman Foundation Gift, Acquisitions Fund and The Metropolitan
Museum of Art Multicultural Audience Development Initiative Gift, 2015
(2015.366). © Kerry James Marshall | Publications by Kris Graves,
Nontsikelelo Mutiti, and Carrie Mae Weems on view in Watson’s 2018
Acquisition Highlights display | Goya, (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes)
(Spanish, 1746–1828). Seated Giant, by 1818.
Burnished aquatint with scraping and strokes of 'lavis' added along the
top of the landscape and within the landscape, 11 3/16 x 8 3/16 in.
(28.4 x 20.8 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris
Brisbane Dick Fund, 1935 (35.42) | Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi (French,
1834–1904). Presentation Drawing of "The Statue of Liberty
Illuminating the World," 1875. Charcoal, heightened with
white chalk, Sheet: 33 7/16 x 51 3/16 in. (85 x 130 cm). The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2014 (2014.486)
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