The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Meet Louisa Lam, Senior Security Guard at The Met 👋 Have you ever wondered how physical spaces influence art and our experience of it? Our security guards, who interact with visitors daily, have a unique understanding of how the Museum's spaces impact everyone. In Episode 3 of the #ImmaterialPodcast, we go behind the scenes with an architect, a security guard, a curator, and a conservator to explore to understand the hidden and complex ecosystem of The Met. Listen now: met.org/LS2E3

We have Team USA on our minds! 🎆   Olympic and Paralympic athletes visited The Met to explore the ancient origins of Olympic games.    Check out their journey through art history be sure to cheer on Team USA this summer!   📷 Alex Shibutani

How do you dress a mannequin when the garment is transparent? Exhibition dresser, Benjamin Klemes shares how the team prepared this dress to go on display. For this incredible garment, designer Olivia Cheng tapped into the uncanny appeal of the swarm by covering a simple white silk organza dress with individual brooches made from jewel beetles sustainably harvested in Thailand from an orchid sanctuary that also provides Cheng with flowers for jewelry. As Cheng explains, “I’m in the business of reuse, and that means committing to the beautiful, the ugly, the nostalgic, and the somewhat-scary. Beetles are all of those things.” Straddling the line between integral decoration and jewelry, Cheng’s beetles reference both 19th-century Indian export embroidery and Brazilian jeweled ornaments. See this dress on view in “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” through September 2. #ReawakeningFashion 🪲 Dauphinette (American, founded 2018). Olivia Cheng (American, born 1998), designer. Dress, fall/winter 2022-23. Photography © Nick Knight, 2024.

Today, in honor of Father’s Day, we explore the powerful bond between father and children through Winold Reiss's painting of Fred Fripp. Fripp's contemplative gaze contrasts with his daughters' outward focus, emphasizing the security of their father’s steadying embrace. Reiss met Fred Fripp when he traveled to South Carolina to portray the Gullah-speaking Black residents of St. Helena Island, whose ancestors were among the last enslaved West African people forcibly brought to the United States. This luminous triple portrait, with its triangular composition and gold leaf background reminiscent of Renaissance madonnas, celebrates the subject, Fred Fripp as a teacher, scholar, and parent. On loan to The Met from Fisk University, the painting "Fred Fripp, Graduate of Penn School, Teacher, with Carol and Evelyn" can be seen in the exhibition "The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism" through July 28. 🎨 Winold Reiss (American, 1886–1953), Fred Fripp, Graduate of Penn School, Teacher, with Carol and Evelyn, 1927. Mixed media on illustration board. Fisk University Fisk University Galleries

Experience the artistic vision and legacy of Edward C. Moore, the creative force who led Tiffany & Co. to unparalleled originality and success during the second half of the 19th century. NOW ON VIEW—"Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co.' features more than 180 extraordinary examples from Moore's personal collection, which was donated to the Museum, alongside 70 magnificent silver objects designed and created at Tiffany & Co. under his direction. A defining figure in the history of American silver, Moore played a pivotal role in shaping the legendary Tiffany design aesthetic and the evolution of The Met’s collection. Visit the exhibition now through October 20. #MetCollectingInspiration.

Pueblo Indian pottery embodies earth, water, air, and fire. 🌎 💦 🌬️🔥 LAST CHANCE: Visit "Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery" before it closes to experience an art form literally of land and place—one of America’s ancient Indigenous creative expressions. The exhibition is the first community-curated Native American exhibition in the history of The Met, featuring more than 100 ancestral, modern, and contemporary clay works that foreground Pueblo voices and aesthetics. ⁣ "Grounded in Clay" is on view during regular hours at The Met and by appointment at the The Vilcek Foundation through June 4. Follow the link to learn more: https://bit.ly/3KlrnRN #GroundedInClay

Rise and shine, sleeping beauties ✨ Learn from Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute, on exactly what qualities make an object a “sleeping beauty.” See these fragile garments reawakened and on view in our new exhibition, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.” #ReawakeningFashion

Roses are red, Cherry blossoms steal my heart! The perfect spring day, Has Central Park and some art. Did you know The Met is actually *in* Central Park? See the cherry blossoms in bloom this April and May — and pop by the Museum to round out a lovely day in NYC.

On May 10, fashion flickers to life 💥   This spring and summer, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” brings to life the sights, sounds, and even smells of masterworks from The Costume Institute’s collection. See approximately 250 garments and accessories spanning four centuries on view, connected by themes of nature—a metaphor for the life cycle and ephemeral nature of fashion.   
The exhibition will be celebrated on Monday, May 6—the First Monday in May—at The Met Gala. 🔗 Follow the link to learn more: https://bit.ly/3SJcdtv   #ReawakeningFashion  #MetGala  #FirstMondayInMay   🎨 Jun Takahashi (Japanese, born 1969) for Undercover (Japanese, founded 1990). Dress, spring/summer 2024; Courtesy Undercover.   📸 Photography © Nick Knight, 2024.

#EidMubarak to all who celebrate! 💫 ⁣ ⁣ In honor of Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan, contemplate this refined Qur’an manuscript from Kashmir. ⁣ ⁣ Lavishly illuminated and bound in a gilded leather binding, this late 18th–early 19th-century Qur’an is typical of devotional manuscripts from Kashmir in northern India. ⁣ ⁣ Notable for its fine illumination and outstanding calligraphy, it contains the distinctive Kashmiri-style gold and blue illumination within a broad frame overlaid by a protruding, lobed clover-like composition with interlace, which extends into the margins of the page. ⁣ ⁣ This noteworthy design is used for the double pages inserted at the beginning of each of the eight Suras: al-Fatiha, al-Ma’ida, Yunus, Isra’, al-Shu‘ara, Qaf, al-Falaq, and al-Nas. The fine naskhi script is consistent in quality and evenness throughout the manuscript. The text also contains Persian interlinear translations in red nasta‘liq.⁣ ⁣ 📖 Qur’an Manuscript with Leather Binding, attributed to India, Kashmir, late 18th–early 19th century. #MetIslamicArt