 | | |  |  | | Art in your inbox |  | | Behind the Scenes with Superfine's Design | | Step inside the creative process with artist Torkwase Dyson, the conceptual designer behind the Superfine: Tailoring Black Style exhibition space. Watch now → | | |  | | Gilded Predator: A Digital Reconstruction | | See a virtual reconstruction of this remarkable Moche shield. Its intricate details convey movement and reveal the skills of Moche metalsmiths in the first millennium CE, centuries before the rise of the Incas. Watch now → | | |  | | Everything’s for Real: Recollections of Black Style | | Celebrated fashion designer Grace Wales Bonner reflects on the history of Black style: “My search for meaning in Black style began as a search through ancestry to reveal beauty and complexity over time and across traditions of expression.” Learn more → | | |  | | Mapping Oceania | | Hawai’i Artist Sean Connelly’s Spheric Oceania offers an alternative cartography, mapping Oceania as a cosmic container of ancestral connection. Learn more → | | |  | | Power of the Pipa | | Earlier this month, Grammy Award–winning pipa player Wu Man returned to The Met to perform Lou Harrison’s Pipa Concerto with the Brooklyn-based orchestra The Knights. Here, she considers new possibilities for her ancient Chinese instrument in Western classical, jazz, electronic, and folk music. Learn more → | | | | MetLiveArts Fall/Winter 2025-26 Season |  | | MetLiveArts presents an eclectic array of performances that inspire, challenge, and connect artists across time to The Met collection. This season, see The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing’s newly reimagined galleries come to life, dive deeper into the work of Man Ray, celebrate the holidays, and so much more. The new season kicks off on September 9. Check out the full lineup → | | | | Exhibition Highlights | | | For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, Man Ray: When Objects Dream, Allegory and Abstraction: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints, The Genesis Facade Commission: Jeffrey Gibson, The Animal That Therefore I Am, Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900, The Roof Garden Commission: Jennie C. Jones, Ensemble, Lorna Simpson: Source Notes, and The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York.
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Images: Isaac Julien CBE RA (British, b. 1960). Pas de Deux No. 2 (Looking for Langston Vintage Series), 1989, printed 2016. Kodak Premier print, Diasec mounted on aluminum, 70 ¾ × 102¼ in. (179.7 × 259.7 cm). Credit TK | Wu Man in performance in 2016. Photo by Call The Shots Photography © CHONG YEW | Jahra Wasasala by Jocelyn Janon | Alex Da Corte, ROY G BIV, 2022 (Video, color, sound; 60 min., wood box with back-projected screen, paint, performance, and powder-coated chairs). Courtesy Alex Da Corte | JACK Quartet courtesy of the artist | SQÜRL by Sara Driver | Red Baraat courtesy of the artist | Gabriela Ortiz by Maria Arteaga | Roomful of Teeth by Anja Schutz | Wu Man by Call The Shots Photography | Sierra de Catorce, photo by Florencia Podestá | Man Ray (American, 1890–1976). Rayograph, 1922. Gelatin silver print. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bluff Collection, Promised Gift of John A. Pritzker. © Man Ray 2015 Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP, Paris 2025 | Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, London 1775–1851 London). The Lake of Zug, 1843. Watercolor and bodycolor (gouache) with reductive techniques over graphite. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Marquand Fund, 1959 (59.120) | The Genesis Facade Commission is made possible by a multiyear partnership with Genesis. | Incense burner in the form of a goose, China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), early 15th century. Bronze. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, The Vincent Astor Foundation Gift, 2020 | Installation view of Ensemble, 2025, by Jennie C. Jones. Powder coated aluminum, stainless steel strings, instrument pins and concrete cast travertine tiles. Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York © 2025 Jennie C. Jones | Tyler Mitchell, Untitled (Christian in Wales Bonner), 2025 | Lorna Simpson (American, born 1960). Night Fall (detail), 2023. Ink and screenprint on gessoed fiberglass, 144 x 102 in. (365.8 x 259.1 cm). Private Collection. Photo by James Wang. © Lorna Simpson / Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth | The Antagonist, 1956. Oil on canvas, 34 1/8 x 50 1/16 in. (86.7 x 127.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Mrs. Helen Meredith Norcross. © George Morrison Estate. Photo © Whitney Museum of American Art / Licensed by Scala / Art Resource, NY. | | | | |
