 | | |  |  | | Art in your inbox |  | | Raphael: A Life in 9 Objects | | Consider the biography of the Italian Renaissance artist through a selection of extraordinary works, including portraits of famous personalities and preparatory drawings for major public commissions. Raphael: Sublime Poetry opens to the public on March 29, 2026. Explore the exhibition → | | |  | | Helene Schjerfbeck's Portraiture | | Scholar Patricia G. Berman is your guide to the Finnish artist's subversive and probing representations of herself and others. Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck is on view through April 5, 2026. Read now → | | |  | | Saint Jerome in a Dress | | This roundtable discussion explores medieval depictions of Saint Jerome, reconsidering questions of gender presentation, mockery, and fashion history. Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages is on view through March 29, 2026. Learn more → | | |  | | Regarding Issey Miyake | | The fashion designer Issey Miyake is known for his use of innovative materials and textiles, his spirit of collaboration, and his playful sensibility. Ephemera in The Costume Institute's Irene Lewisohn Costume Reference Library sheds new light on his life and work. Discover now → | | | | Perspectives |  | | Looking for inspiration? | | | | | Exhibition Highlights | |  |  | | Costume Art | | UPCOMING | May 10, 2026–January 10, 2027
The Met Fifth Avenue | | | | | Featured Event |  | | | | Painting, Writing, and Exile: Peter Weiss in Sweden | Friday, April 3, 6–7 pm
In this year's Leonard A. Lauder Distinguished Scholar Lecture, join Frederic Schwartz as he examines the little-known early ventures of major German author Peter Weiss. Although he is celebrated today for his radical plays and monumental novel The Aesthetics of Resistance, which uses the Pergamon Altar as a starting point for its narrative, Weiss began his professional career as a painter, not a writer. Furthermore, he wrote his first literary works in Swedish, the language of the country to which he fled from Germany in 1938 and which remained his home for the rest of his life. In this lecture, Professor Schwartz argues that the Swedish writings provide a new context for Weiss's later, politically committed German work, and that considering his training as a painter at the Academy of Art in Prague reveals that the visual arts were always fundamental to his conception of both literature and politics.
Free with Museum admission, though advance registration is required. Note: Space is limited; first come, first served.
Register now → | | The Met Store |  | | | | In recognition of Senator Schumer |  | | The Met is grateful to Senator Chuck Schumer for helping secure $1.75 million in federal funds to support the renovation and restoration of the 83rd Street ADA accessible entrance. | | | For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit Raphael: Sublime Poetry, Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, Spectrum of Desire: Love, Sex, and Gender in the Middle Ages, Flip Sides: Seeing Korean Art Anew, Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship, and Costume Art.
Painting, Writing, and Exile: Peter Weiss in Sweden is presented by the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art.
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Images: Raphael (Raffaello di Giovanni Santi; 1483–1520). Portrait of a Young Boy (Presumed to Be a Self-Portrait), ca. 1500. Grayish black chalk, highlighted with white (now lost), on laid paper, 15 × 10 1/4 in. (38.1 × 26.1 cm). The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (WA1846.158) | Helene Schjerfbeck (Finnish, 1862–1946). Self-Portrait, Black Background (detail), 1915. Oil on canvas, 18 × 14 1/8 in. (45.5 × 36 cm). Finnish National Gallery Collection, Ateneum Art Museum, Herman and Elisabeth Hallonblad Collection | The Limbourg Brothers (Franco-Netherlandish, active France, by 1399–1416). The Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry (detail), 1405–1408/1409. Tempera, gold, and ink on vellum, Single leaf, Overall: 9 3/8 x 6 11/16 in. (23.8 x 17 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Cloisters Collection, 1954 (54.1.1a, b) | Photo collage from Fly with Issey Miyake pamphlet (1977) | Raphael (Raffaello di Giovanni Santi), The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna) (detail), ca. 1509–11. Oil on canvas (transferred from wood). National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.24 | Korea, Kashyapa (detail), dated 1700. Wood with polychrome paint, H. 22 in. (55.9 cm); W. 9 in. (22.9 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1942 (42.25.8) | Possibly by Wenzel Roriczer (German, born Bohemia, died 1419). Design for the Entrance Portal of Regensburg Cathedral (detail), ca. 1390–1410. Pen and black ink, over blind ruling with stylus, guided by compass and straightedge, on parchment, Sheet: 53 3/16 × 22 3/8 in. (135.1 × 56.9 cm). Kupferstichkabinett, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien (HZ-16871r) | Collage: "Delphos" gown, Fortuny (Italian), Adèle Henriette Elisabeth Nigrin Fortuny and Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, 1920s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Frances J. Kiernan, 2005 (2005.328); Terracotta statuette of Nike, the personification of victory, late 5th century BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1907 (07.286.23). Artwork by Julie Wolfe. | Helene Schjerfbeck (Finnish, 1862‒1946). Self-Portrait (detail), 1912. Oil on canvas, 17 1/8 × 16 1/2 in. (43.5 × 42 cm). Finnish National Gallery Collection, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki (A-2016-51). Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Yehia Eweis | 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) | Detail of the Pergamon Altar, Pergamon Museum, Berlin. Photo by Frederic Schwartz | | | | |
