 | | |  |  | | Art in your inbox |  | | Meet the Artist—The Genesis Facade Commission: Jeffrey Gibson, The Animal That Therefore I Am | | Drawing on Indigenous worldviews and the rich history of bronze sculpture, Jeffrey Gibson explores the interconnectedness of all living beings and the environment. Step into the artistic journey of Gibson's creation of four large-scale figurative sculptures for The Genesis Facade Commission: Jeffrey Gibson, The Animal That Therefore I Am. Watch now → | | |  | | Sue Cassidy Clark: The Camera Was My Art | | After donating her cameras to The Met, patron and volunteer emerita Sue Cassidy Clark reflects on her early days in New York through her photographs, scrapbooks, and cameras. Watch now → | | |  | | Connecting to the Past with Francisco Corrales Ulloa | | Archaeologist Francisco Corrales Ulloa reflects on the use of animals as symbols in Precolumbian art and the ongoing importance of preserving cultural heritage. Listen now → | | |  | | Jive: Vocabulary as Style | | Join scholar and writer Brent Hayes Edwards to discover the foundational history the foundational history of jive culture in the United States as a form of expression. Superfine: Tailoring Black Style is on view through October 26, 2025. Learn more → | | |  | | Shelf Life | | How do you conserve an edible book? Assistant Museum Librarian Mary Kallem offers a rollicking tour of artists’ books made from perishable foodstuffs, which are particularly vulnerable to pests and the ravages of time. Learn more → | | | | Exhibition Highlights |  | | Divine Egypt | | UPCOMING | October 12, 2025–January 19, 2026
The Met Fifth Avenue | | | | | | MetLiveArts |  | | International Contemporary Ensemble Performs Jennie C. Jones | Sunday, October 5, 2025, 2 pm
The Met Fifth Avenue | | The Met’s 2025 Roof Garden Commission artist joins one of the world’s most renowned new music ensembles for a discussion and world premiere performances of her musical compositions. Use code ENSEMBLE20 at checkout for a 20% discount. Buy tickets → | | | | The Met Store |  | | | For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit The Genesis Facade Commission: Jeffrey Gibson, The Animal That Therefore I Am, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, Divine Egypt, Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages, The Roof Garden Commission: Jennie C. Jones, Ensemble, Lorna Simpson: Source Notes, Man Ray: When Objects Dream, and The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York.
The International Contemporary Ensemble Performs Jennie C. Jones performance is made possible with support from the Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Fund.
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Images: Melvin Tapley (American, 1918/19–2005). Cover of Dan Burley’s Original Handbook of Harlem Jive by Dan Burley, 1944. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Irene Lewisohn Costume Reference Library | Triad of Osiris, Horus, and Isis. From Egypt, probably Thebes, Karnak Temple. Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22, reign of Osorkon II (about 872–837 BCE). Gold inlaid with lapis lazuli. Acquired in 1872. Paris, Louvre Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities (E 6204). © 2025 GrandPalaisRmn (Louvre Museum). Photo: Mathieu Rabea | Aquamanile in the Form of Phyllis and Aristotle, Netherlandish, late 14th or early 15th century. Copper alloy, 12 ¾ x 7 x 15½ in. (32.5 x 17.9 x 39.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (1975.1.1416) | 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 | 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 | 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. | Jeffrey Gibson (a member of the Mississippi band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, born 1972). The Animal That Therefore I Am: they teach us to be sensitive and to trust our instincts, issi / awi / deer (detail), 2025. Patinated bronze. Courtesy the artist | Image: Jennie C. Jones, photo by Joshua Franzos | | | | |
