Join us virtually tonight at 7 pm to celebrate the publication of Bernd & Hilla Becher with authors Jeff Rosenheim and Lucy Sante and editor Elisa Urbanelli! #MetPubs#MetBecher
Interested in #photography? #Artists who are married couples? Generally fascinating conversations about #art, #culture, and #books? Here's a not-to-be-missed event: | 192 Books | 192 Tenth Avenue at 21st Street, New York https://t.co/FOQKeWzRWy @192books@metmuseum
Read Sean Zhang's incredible interview with @JIJennings and check out "Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room" on #MetPubs where you'll find Jennings's amazing graphic novella inspired by the Museum's installation.
“Afrofuturism is not being generated out of an ivory-tower mentality. It’s coming from the streets.” — John Jennings
Read on as Jennings shares his thoughts on Black identity and the role museums play in surfacing and preserving Black stories.
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Want more?
Dive into all things Seurat—from his early academic drawings to his paintings of popular entertainment and the serene landscapes in "Seurat, 1859-1891"— for free through #MetPubs: https://t.co/Zn43DxGKJl 📚
So much great #Vermeer content on this thread! If you *still* can’t get enough of the artist celebrated today by @GoogleDoodles, check out “Vermeer and the Delft School” on #MetPubs available to download (or read online via @googlebooks) for free!
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Are you loving today's #Vermeer-themed @GoogleDoodles? (So are weeeeeee.)
Allow us to share a few more places you can go for all-things-Vermeer: a #thread. ✨
Happy #BookLoversDay! Celebrate with 11 publications on portraiture from #MetPubs ! #DYK that you can download over 1400 titles on MetPublications? (https://t.co/pyR5mq1s2d) #freebooks
What's in a face?
Portraiture goes far beyond capturing a likeness—portraits shed light on the identity of both the sitter and the artist.
Here are 11 #MetPubs on the art of portraiture you can read right now: https://t.co/GTqf4nNUF5
"Goya's work is like a figure eight—there's no start, and there's no end. Sometimes meanings will converge in the center, but they will ultimately...part ways."
Read on as Met curator Mark McDonald speaks to "Goya's Graphic Imagination." #MetPubs
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"What binds these objects together? What lights the spark between them? This book tells us."
We spy a familiar book jacket! 📖
Check out #ArtEquals and other awesome 2020 reads in this round up from @hyperallergic.
Snag a copy ⤵
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My incredibly talented brother is a finalist in a contest to have his design featured in a new video game. The voting period ends on Friday and you can vote for his design by clicking the duck emoji at the bottom of this Discord post (link below)🦆💕
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Dive into art from the #MetCollection in a whole new way. 📚
Explore our new book "Art = Discovering Infinite Connections in Art History," published with @Phaidon, with Met Director Max Hollein. #ArtEquals
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Do you know your lacquer from your lithograph? Your cloisonné from your champlevé? Our latest @metmuseum Art = story explains technique without getting too technical https://t.co/Gl9bnDzXk3
It can be as small a territory as a river valley, or as large an expanse as an empire, but location aids artistic creation, as our new @metmuseum book, Art =, explains https://t.co/RisPWHJMmW
Our book Art = doesn’t just explore 6,000 years of history via 800 works from The @metmuseum's collection. Its glossary is filled with fascinating facts and connections. In a new series, we locate the rebellious streak at the heart of so many art movements https://t.co/bFH3Vqs7Lj
#ArtEquals is here! 📚 🎨
Explore more than 800 artworks from The Met's collection alongside 160 curatorial essays in our new book published with @Phaidon, "Art = Discovering Infinite Connections in Art History."
Get your copy from the #MetStore ⬇️
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