 | | |  |  | | Art in your inbox |  | | Exhibition Tour—Musical Bodies | | Join Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, Curator in the Department of Musical Instruments, and Ava Valentino, Research Assistant in the Department of Musical Instruments, along with Brett Renfer, Senior Project Manager of Emerging Technologies, to virtually explore the Musical Bodies exhibition. Watch now → | | |  | | Raphael and Antiquity | | Writer and historian Ingrid D. Rowland considers how ancient history and culture profoundly influenced Raphael's art. The exhibition Raphael: Sublime Poetry closes this weekend. Read now → | | |  | | Eleven Revolutionary Objects | | Objects currently on view in Revolution! offer insights into how artists on both sides of the Atlantic responded to the political and military drama that unfolded leading up to and following the Declaration of Independence. Learn more → | | |  | | Margaret Armstrong in Hibernia | | A selection of stunning watercolors by the celebrated artist, designer, and author of Field Book of Western Wildflowers (1915) portrays the disappearance of the longleaf pine ecosystem in 20th-century America. Read now → | | |  | | New Season: MetKids Microscope | | MetKids Microscope is a show about the science behind the art (and the art behind the science!) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Screeching plants, deadly colors, and clothing made with bugs! Learn about the fascinating and downright bizarre stuff behind artworks at The Met—then experiment on your own. Watch now → | | | | Exhibition Highlights | | |  | | Musical Bodies | | RECENTLY OPENED | Through September 27, 2026
The Met Fifth Avenue | | | |  | | Costume Art | Through January 10, 2027
The Met Fifth Avenue | | | | Featured Event |  | | Date Night—Olé Olé Olé | Friday, July 10, 5–8 pm
Various locations, The Met Fifth Avenue
Celebrate the World Cup at The Met with a free evening full of energy, music, and global culture! Join in on soccer chants on The Met steps, dance to global anthems spun by New York City DJs, create art inspired by sport and cultural traditions, enjoy two-for-one drinks, and join tours of the arts of Africa, the ancient Americas, and Oceania galleries in The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. Grab your crew, wear your team colors, and bring your loudest cheer to celebrate cultures across the world.
All events are free with Museum admission, which is always pay-what-you-wish for New Yorkers. Beverages are available for purchase. Enjoy our 2-for-1 Date Night drink special.
Learn more → | | The Met Store |  | | | For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit Musical Bodies, Raphael: Sublime Poetry, Revolution!, Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur, Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy, Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas, and Costume Art.
MetKids is supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Date Night—Olé Olé Olé is made possible by The Met's Fund for Diverse Art Histories.
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Images: Jan van Tieghem (active ca. 1535–after 1573) and Frans Gheteels (active 1540–68) after Raphael (Raffaello di Giovanni Santi; 1483–1520). Saint Paul and Saint Barnabas at Lystra (from the Second Edition of the Acts of the Apostles Tapestry Series) (detail), (Late 1540s or early 1550s). Warp: wool, 7-8 per cm; weft: wool and silk, lined on the reverse, 34–38 per cm, 15 ft. 10 15/16 in. × 24 ft. 5 11/16 in. (485 × 746 cm). Patrimonio Nacional, Colecciones Reales, Madrid, Spain (10004084 (TA-12/8)) | Asher Brown Durand (1796–1886), after John Trumbull (1756–1843). Declaration of Independence (detail), 1820–23. Etching and engraving, fifth state of six, 20 1/16 × 30 3/16 in. (51 × 76.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Gift of Morrison H. Heckscher, 2022 (2022.29) | Margaret Neilson Armstrong (American, 1867–1944). Spreading Pogonia (Cleistesiopsis) (detail), April 14, 1918. Watercolor and brown ink over graphite, with detail in graphite; 13 3/4 × 10 in. (34.8 × 25.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Helena Bienstock, Cynthia MacKay Keegan and Frank E. Johnson, 2010 (2010.341.2(64)) | 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 | Thomas Zach, Violino Harpa Forma Maxima, 1874. Wood (spruce, maple, ebony), metal strings. Collections Musée de la musique / Cliché Claude Germain, 2020. Cité de la musique-Philharmonie de Paris | Alberto Giacometti, Woman of Venice II, 1956. Painted bronze. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998 © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York | Jean-Léon Gérôme, Bashi-Bazouk (detail), 1868–69. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2008 | Tairona artist(s), Figure Pendant, Colombia, 900–1600 CE. Gold. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jan Mitchell and Sons Collection, Gift of Jan Mitchell, 1991 (1991.419.31) | Assemblage: Ensemble, John Galliano for Maison Margiela, autumn/winter 2020–21 haute couture. Courtesy of Maison Margiela; The Veiled Woman, Rafaelle Monti, 1854. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Annie Brinkmann, 1887 (87.7) Artwork by Julie Wolfe. | Date Night photo by Argenis Apolinario | | | |   |
