 | | |  |  | | Art in your inbox |  | | Exhibition Tour—Man Ray: When Objects Dream | | Join Stephanie D’Alessandro, Leonard A. Lauder Curator of Modern Art and Senior Research Coordinator, and Stephen Pinson, Curator in the Department of Photographs, to virtually explore Man Ray: When Objects Dream—a new exhibition that explores the American artist’s radical experiments in photography, painting, sculpture, and film. Watch now → | | |  | | Look inside a 4,500-year-old sculpture from Iraq | | See into the ancient past as we use cutting-edge technology to uncover the story of how a sculpture from Mesopotamia was created over 4,000 years ago. In this collaborative research project between The Met and the Republic of Iraq, new findings are discovered about the ancient art making technique of hollow core lost wax casting, an innovative breakthrough that is still used by artists today. Watch now → | | |  | | Revisiting Attorney Street: On Martin Wong | | Writer Lisa Hsiao Chen reflects on the life and work of Martin Wong, whose landmark painting Attorney Street (Handball Court with Autobiographical Poem by Piñero) (1982–84) tells a story of Manhattan’s Lower East Side in the 1970s and ’80s. Read now → | | |  | | Installing the Wari Feather Panels | | Join scholar Carol Rodríguez and conservator Christine Giuntini in an exploration of the Wari Feathered Panels (600–900 CE), nine of which are installed in the newly renovated Arts of the Ancient Americas galleries in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. Watch now → | | |  | | Mini Doc: Brooklyn Hi-Art! | | During their Civic Practice Partnership artist residency, Brooklyn Hi-Art! Machine founders Mildred Beltré and Oasa DuVerney sat outside with their Crown Heights neighbors, asking them to share stories and discuss how long they have lived in the neighborhood, what they would like to see change, and what they hope will remain the same. Watch now → | | | | Exhibition Highlights |  | | Divine Egypt | | OPENING SOON | October 12, 2025–January 19, 2026
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| | | For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit Man Ray: When Objects Dream, Arts of the Ancient Americas, The Roof Garden Commission: Jennie C. Jones, Ensemble, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, Divine Egypt, Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages, and The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York, and The Genesis Facade Commission: Jeffrey Gibson, The Animal That Therefore I Am.
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Images: Martin Wong (American, 1946–1999) and Miguel Piñero (American, 1946–1988). Attorney Street (Handball Court with Autobiographical Poem by Piñero), 1982–84. Oil on canvas, 42 in. × 54 1/4 in. (106.7 × 137.8 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Edith C. Blum Fund, 1984 (1984.110) © The Estate of Martin Wong | 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 | 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 | 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 | | | | |
