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Celebrating The Met's Birthday

Explore titles on Museum history this month as The Met turns 153.

An abstract painting in browns, greens, yellows, and pinks. Abstract figures in the middle of the composition suggest the Death and the Maiden trope common in European art..
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Cecily Brown: Death and the Maid

An intimate survey of Cecily Brown’s paintings, drawings, and prints, providing a meditation on the intertwined themes of still life, memento mori, and vanitas in her work.

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Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter in the Age of Velázquez

A provocative study of a freedman painter that recognizes the labor of enslaved artists and artisans in seventeenth-century Spain.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin

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